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Bernard Vogel & Meret Gaugler, Endeavour Vision
Venture capital and growth equity firm Endeavour Vision has a 20-year history of investing in growth-stage medtech and digital health companies in Europe and the US. Here Private Equity Wire asks Bernard Vogel, co-founder and managing partner, and Meret Gaugler (pictured, above-right, with Vogel), head of investment strategy, for their thoughts on the innovations and key drivers that are shaping the sector’s future. 
RM Funds, the Investment Manager of the listed specialist in social and environmental infrastructure, RM Secured Direct Lending (RMDL), has provided a bilateral GBP13 million senior secured three-year term loan facility to Athena Healthcare Group (AHG).   The financing will support AHG in funding the construction of an institutional-grade purpose built 205 bedrooms care village in Lytham, England. The aged care scheme is expected to reach completion and start trading by early Q2 2022. This is RM Funds’ second transaction with AHG, having previously completed on a GBP7.8 million construction facility in Q4 2020. RM Funds is focused on providing
Perception Point, a specialist email and collaboration security company, offering fast interception of content-based attacks as a service, has raised USD28 million in Series B funding, bringing the total funding to USD48 million.   The new funding round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners and joined by global investor NGP Capital along with existing investors Pitango Venture Capital and State of Mind Ventures (SOMV). Yoram Oron and Atad Peled from Red Dot Capital Partners, and Bo Ilsoe from NGP Capital will be joining the company’s board of directors. Funds from this round will be used to fuel rapid growth,
Novo Holdings has joined the USD80 million Series C financing in Halodoc, an Indonesia-based healthtech platform, which was led by PT Astra Digital Internasional, a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk (Astra) and joined by existing and new investors including Temasek, Telkomsel’s TMI, Acrew Diversify Capital Fund, Bangkok Bank,UOB Venture Management, Singtel Innov8, BliBli, Allianz X, and Openspace Ventures.   This is the first investment by the Novo Holdings Asian life sciences team in Singapore following set up in 2020.  Founded in 2016, Halodoc is a digital healthcare platform that includes a mobile app and website allowing customers across Indonesia
Funds managed by leading global investment firm KKR will be joining long-time partner, Oak Hill Capital, and management as investors in MetroNet. As part of the transaction, Oak Hill and KKR will each make new investments to help accelerate MetroNet’s growth in building and connecting fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) data, television, and telephone services to homes and businesses. This year, MetroNet launched services in its ninth state as it continues to expand its fibre footprint to local communities across the country.  “We value our long-standing partnership with Oak Hill and are proud to welcome our new investors at KKR,” says John Cinelli,
Pemberton, a European private debt manager transforming traditional credit markets, backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group PLC, has provided facilities to support the full refinancing of Elatec, a technology company providing global RFID technology solutions, backed by private equity firm Summit Partners. Elatec is a leading global provider of highly-configurable RFID (radio frequency identification) technology solutions used in a variety of end-markets and industry applications, including printing, physical access control, computing, manufacturing and the Internet of Things (IoT). The company designs and manufactures both contact (SmartCard) and close proximity contactless (NFC, RFID, Bluetooth) readers/writers that
Rothschild & Co and Arrowpoint Advisory have advised Paine Schwartz Partners on the buy-out of Kynetec from Inflexion. Kynetec provides market research for the agriculture and animal health industries, helping companies around the world understand the dynamics of their marketplaces, turning research into business opportunities and enabling clients to create winning strategies. Leveraging proprietary data sources and processing capabilities, Kynetec offers customers a suite of data-driven reporting and tracking solutions, as well as insight studies. Led by an experienced management team and based in Newbury, England and St. Louis, Missouri, Kynetec has 400-plus customers in more than 80 countries.  
ARIE Capital Group has been granted approval for its Private Fund Management (PFM) licence from the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC), and its Qualified Foreign Limited Partner (QFLP) licence by the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Bureau of Finance. These two licences are a significant achievement for ARIE Capital Group and its business in China, where it plans to launch several venture capital and private equity funds. Under the QFLP licence it is now able to raise up to USD120 million from Tianjin Municipality’s investment quota, as well as additional capital from international investors that can be converted into RMB
Inovo, a venture capital firm investing in technology startups across Poland and Central & Eastern European region (CEE), has today announced the final close of its second fund, Inovo II, at EUR54 million. A range of global funds, entrepreneurs and family offices joined the European Investment Fund (EIF) as the cornerstone investor.   Inovo specialises in identifying disruptive tech startups and supporting their development and growth through participation in early-stage, post-traction seed and Series A funding. Having a diverse range of LPs in the fund will enable portfolio companies to secure global funding as they scale and expand abroad. The
Kennet Partners (Kennet), a European technology growth equity investor, has agreed to sell its stake in Dext (formerly ReceiptBank), a digital, multi-product platform for accountants and bookkeepers, to Hg, a leading global software and services investor. The sale will provide Kennet with a 4.4 times return on its investment. Kennet was the first institutional investor in Dext and acquired its stake in the company in 2016. The sale of Kennet’s stake in Dext comes after a record-breaking financial quarter following its rebrand (from Receiptbank) earlier this year.    Over the last five years, funding from Kennet and subsequent investors including

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