Managers
Eir Ventures Partners AB, a Nordic Life Science Venture Capital manager, has held the final close of its fund Eir Ventures I AB of EUR122.3 million.
Eir Ventures I AB is the firm’s first dedicated life sciences venture capital fund which was launched in 2020 with support from a strong investor syndicate comprising the European Investment Fund (EIF), Novo Holdings, Saminvest, Vækstfonden, as well as a group of prominent Nordic universities, family offices and the founding partners of Eir Ventures.
Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm, is to sell RWS Facility Services (RWS) to Quest Resource Holding Corporation (Quest), a specialist in environmental waste and recycling services.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
RWS, which was acquired by Atar Capital in September 2017, delivers hands-on managed solutions for waste management, commodity recycling and facilities services.
Addleshaw Goddard is advising JP Morgan Cazenove in relation to the recommended GBP1.2 billion acquisition of Clinigen Group plc by Triton Funds.
JP Morgan Cazenove is acting as financial adviser to Triton. The AG team is led by Simon Wood and Peter Crichton, assisted by Jayne Gallagher.
Clinigen is a global pharmaceutical services and products company focused on providing ethical access to medicines. Triton is a leading European private equity investment firm with a focus on four core areas: healthcare (including pharmaceuticals), consumer, business services, and industrials.
Actis has exited its investment in Mouka Limited (Mouka), a Nigerian provider of branded mattresses and bedding products, to Dolidol for a transaction value of around USD70 million.
Dolidol, a Moroccan bedding sector specialist, will become a pan-African operator as a result of this transformational acquisition.
The investment in Mouka dates back to 2015, with a 90 per cent stake in the company being owned by the fund in partnership with the founding Moukarim family, who continued to hold a 10 per cent stake in the business and remained committed to its success
Private investment firm Quilvest Capital Partners (Quilvest), has made a substantial growth investment in UrgentMED, an independent network of urgent care clinics in Southern California.
Quilvest is partnering with UrgentMED’s co-founders, Dr Jacob Rastegar, Dr Morris Kokhab and Dr Pejman Bolourian, who will each remain significant shareholders and will continue to lead the business going forward.
The InsuResilience Investment Fund (IIF) managed by impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance Ltd (BlueOrchard) is investing up to USD6.7 million in Probus Insurance Broker Private Limited (Probus), a retail insurtech firm based in India.
Probus offers climate insurance coverage in India, a country highly exposed to various climate risks. The firm targets the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, where insurance penetration is currently very low. Probus has comprehensive, tailor-made product offering with more than 80 per cent of its reach in the financially weakest cities of the country and rural areas.
Precisely, a global specialist in data integrity software, backed by Clearlake Capital Group,de and TA Associates, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atlanta-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider CEDAR CX Technologies.
The acquisition strengthens the opportunity for Precisely customers to share capabilities across CEDAR CX and the EngageOne portfolio, including unified digital customer experiences, document composition, archiving, billing, and payments.
Kainos Capital, a food and consumer-focused private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company good2grow to Wind Point Partners.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, good2grow is a branded kids’ beverage company that sells clean label, ready-to-drink fruit juice, fortified water and organic flavored milk. Kainos partnered with the business, which was previously founder-owned, in 2018.
Crypto venture capital fund Lemniscap has led a USD4.4 million seed funding round in JellyFi, a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that will soon enable uncollateralised crypto loans.
ParaFi Capital, Tioga Capital, White Star Capital, DeFiance Capital, True Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Genesis, Divergence Ventures, AngelDAO and several angel investors also participated in the round. The investment will be used to support JellyFi’s growth through R&D, key hires, and performing multiple audits.
Pollen Street Capital, an independent, alternative investment management company focused on the financial and business services sectors, has made a strategic growth investment in Blue Media SA, an online payments provider in Poland.
Blue Media is offers a range of payments and payment-related services to businesses and consumers via the Blue Media and Autopay brands. This year the business expects to process over EUR6 billion of payments, with over 33,000 active eCommerce merchants and is approaching 1 million users of the Autopay app.
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