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Pieces Technologies (Pieces Tech), an start-up that deploys cutting edge technology to improve clinical and community health outcomes, has closed a USD21.6 million Series A funding round.
The Pieces software platform was incubated at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), a noted scientific research and development nonprofit corporation in Dallas.
Pacific Advantage Capital (PAC Partners) and Jump Capital led the investment along with participation from Children’s Health (Dallas), Order of Saint Francis Healthcare System (Peoria, IL), PCCI and select Dallas investors, among others.
“We are so pleased to see the team at Pieces Tech reach this amazing milestone in
Liberty Hall Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defence industry, has acquired Bromford Industries, a supplier of complex, close tolerance engine components, fabrications and assemblies and landing gear components for the global aerospace and power generation industries.
Bromford will serve as the foundational asset for Liberty Hall’s newest strategy to build a diversified engine component supplier to the global aerospace and power generation industries through organic investments and strategic acquisitions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“As the commercial aerospace industry continues to enjoy long-term secular
Gecko Biomedical (Gecko) has closed a series A2 EUR22.5 million financing round led by Sofinnova Partners, which becomes the largest investor in Gecko, with support from Bpifranceand existing series A investors Omnes Capital, CM-CIC Innovation and CapDecisif Management, who invested in the company in December 2013.
In conjunction with the financing, Antoine Papiernik at Sofinnova Partners and Chahra Louafi at Bpifrance have joined Gecko’s Board of Directors.
Gecko was co-founded by Christophe Bancel and Bernard Gilly (both from the iBionext Network), Prof Jeff Karp (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Boston, MA, USA) and Prof Bob Langer (Massachusetts
Altium acted as financial advisor to the shareholders of Guestline, a leading provider of mission critical software for the hospitality sector, in securing a significant investment from The Riverside Company.
The Riverside Company has entered a definitive agreement to invest in Guestline and the transaction is expected to close imminently.
Based in Shrewsbury, Guestline delivers a range of products covering all areas of hospitality and hotel management, with solutions that drive up occupancy, average room rate and yield. The business has a broad customer base of independent hotels, hotel chains, student accommodation and aparthotels and is a trusted partner
Nautic Partners has partnered with management to invest in and recapitalise ExactCare Pharmacy, a company focused on improving medication adherence for patients with chronic conditions and on multiple medications.
ExactCare was founded by Dale Wollschleger in 2009 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. In connection with the Nautic investment, Doug Present, former CEO of MHA, was appointed chairman of the ExactCare board of directors and Jim Smith, former CEO of QoL meds, joined the board.
Dispensing 2 million prescriptions and serving 20,000 patients annually, ExactCare works with health insurers, home health agencies, and health systems to help patients on multiple
The Georgia Research Alliance’s GRA Ventures program has reached a major milestone with the companies in its portfolio raising over USD1 billion in equity investment from venture capital firms and strategic investors.
"A billion dollars in investment is a significant achievement for the GRA Ventures program," says C Michael Cassidy, President and CEO of the Georgia Research Alliance. "Helping university faculty move their ideas out of the lab and grow them as new businesses is essential to Georgia's economic future."
The GRA Ventures program, started in 2002 was founded to enable universities to look across their faculty and laboratory landscape
In a challenging third quarter for equity investors both public and private, US private equity and venture capital funds each lost ground for the first time in several years, though the latter only fractionally.
Both bested public market equity returns, according to benchmarks published by Cambridge Associates LLC.
For the quarter ending September 30, 2015, the Cambridge Associates LLC US Private Equity Index returned -1.4 per cent. The Cambridge Associates LLC US Venture Capital Index posted a return of -0.4 per cent. Over the first three quarters of the year, the same indexes respectively gained 5.3 per cent and 11.3
The Italian corporate and financial law firm Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners has advised CIR – Compagnie Industriali Riunite on its acquisition with F2i of a 46.7 per cent equity stake inItalian healthcare services group and CIR portfolio company KOS ffrom Ardian or EUR292 million.
CIR was assisted by a team composed by partners Bruno Gattai, Gerardo Gabrielli and senior associate Michele Ventura.
F2i was advised on the legal profiles by Studio Carbonetti e Associati with a team led by Massimo Tesei and composed by Alessandro Metrangolo, Rocco Santarelli and Carlo Mecella. Studio Pessi e Associati and Studio Sanino
Squire Patton Boggs has represented private equity firm MCI in its record EUR76 million exit from Invia/Travelplanet, the leading e-travel player in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
The cross-border team led by Warsaw Corporate partner Michal Karwacki advised the MCI.TechVentures Fund on the sale of 100 per cent shares in Invia/Travelplanet to Rockaway Capital. In the transaction, valuing Invia at EUR76 million, MCI sold its shares in the company for EUR56 million. It marks a record deal with the highest return on a single investment in the fund’s history.
MCI.TechVentures Fund is focused on growth technology investments in consumer
Real estate investor acquisition and management platform CrowdStreet has raised USD3.5 million in Series A funding. Rally Ventures led the round with participation from seed investors Green Visor Capital, Seven Peaks Ventures and Portland Seed Fund.
CrowdStreet is aiming to democratise access to commercial real estate investing with its integrated online investor marketplace and software as a service (SaaS)-based investor lifecycle management solution. The company will use the funds from the Series A round to drive further innovation in its products and core technology and to develop key partnerships while scaling its investment platform.
"CrowdStreet is taking a comprehensive approach
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