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LBO France’s digital health venture strategy continues to gain ground with the Digital Health 2 fund, which has just completed its fundraising at EUR155 million, twice as much as its predecessor fund, SISA which closed in 2017 at EUR70 million.
As a pioneer in digital healthcare since 2014, LBO France received a renewed vote of confidence from almost all investors who had put their money in the first SISA fund, including institutional LPs such as Bpifrance, about 15 insurance companies and family offices. Most of these long-standing investors put even more money into the new fund. Digital Health 2 also
Alorsfaim, a Paris-based e-grocery company specialising in authentic and high-quality Asian food, has raised EUR4 million in seed funding, enabling the fast-growing start-up to continue its rapid expansion across the vast Asian community in France and Europe.
The round was led by iFly.vc with participation from Cathay Innovation and Goodwater Capital.
Founded in 2018, Alorsfaim initially started as a meal delivery platform collaborating with over 600 authentic Asian restaurants. In March 2020, during the most challenging period of the pandemic in France, the company launched its e-grocery delivery service to help sustain the Asian community’s access to products in high
Lafayette Square has selected Allvue Systems to provide its front-to-back-office solution. Lafayette Square is an impact investment platform founded by Damien Dwin that is working locally to create an inclusive American economy.
By investing capital and services locally, Lafayette Square aims to drive impact outcomes specific to the local community.
Allvue’s end-to-end technology is expected to streamline and automate Lafayette Square’s business functions to create operational efficiencies across the organisation and support further scalability. It also will enable the flow of data from portfolio management to investment accounting, saving time and empowering decision-making. The software will seamlessly integrate with
Kramer Levin has appointed Elisia M Klinka as a partner in the time’s Private Equity/M&A practice in New York.
Klinka’s practice focuses on private equity and mergers and acquisitions, and she represents several private equity sponsors and strategic acquirers.
Kramer Levin co-managing partners Howard T Spilko and Paul H Schoeman, say: “We are pleased to welcome Elisia to the firm. We have been growing our Corporate practice dramatically in recent years, particularly our private equity and M&A capabilities, and that growth continues to be a strategic priority for the firm.”
“We are experiencing extraordinarily high demand for our group’s services
A record high of over GBP6.5 billion was invested by Venture Capital (VC) in UK scaleups over the summer, according to new research.
The KPMG Venture Pulse report reveals that after two extraordinarily high quarters in 2021, UK scaleups continued to attract funding from across the globe in Q3 21, with eager investors prepared to pay premium prices for strong UK innovators with a proven track record. Nearly GBP20 billion of VC investment has been raised so far this year by scaleups in the UK.
While fintech was the hottest area of investment in the UK, a diversity of
Following the realisation of Avantia in September, ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has announced the close of its ninth fund, generating a three-times return and 36 per cent IRR.
KKR, together with its co-invest partner, Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family, has purchased the KMR Music Royalties II portfolio (Fund II) from KCL for approximately USD1.1 billion.
Genstar Capital and existing investor GI Partners have recapitalised Daxko, a health, fitness, and wellness industry software and integrated payments provider.
The investment supports Daxko’s accelerated innovation in product development, customer support, sales and marketing, and strategic acquisitions.
Daxko provides mission-critical membership management software and integrated payment solutions to member-based health and wellness organisations. The company serves large health clubs, boutique fitness studios, YMCAs, and JCCs with products to help its customers with daily operations and member management. During GI Partners’ ownership, Daxko has invested in growing the business, offerings, and employee base in service of delivering a quality
Building on three decades of future-proofing companies, EQT is launching EQT Future fund, an impact-driven longer-hold fund with a EUR4 billion target size, which will apply EQT’s active ownership model to accelerate sustainable transformation of companies alongside creating attractive risk adjusted returns.
The launch of EQT Future comes just days after the announcement of EQT as the first private markets firm globally to formalise science based targets through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). EQT will address climate change by defining ambitious greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction targets, for both its own and the portfolio companies’ operations.
The EQT Future
DiRx, an online pharmacy platform that delivers savings on commonly prescribed, FDA-approved generic medicines without the need for insurance, has raised USD5.75 million in Series A funding.
Additional funding interest is under advanced contract negotiations and will conclude in the coming weeks. Coinciding with the anniversary of its initial USD5 million Seed Round in September 2020, this Series A round was also a private placement with healthcare-specialised investors including new as well as returning participants.
With over 40 million uninsured and 80 million underinsured Americans struggling with unaffordable out-of-pocket medicine costs, the DiRx model reduces the number of supply chain
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