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Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Guernsey, together with the Guernsey funds team of global investor services group IQ-EQ, have advised Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) on the successful launch of its debut fund Queen’s Park Equity Partners I, which closed at its hard cap of GBP185 million and was raised entirely during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg), a private equity firm specialising in middle market investing, has held the final closing of its ninth private equity fund, Kohlberg Investors IX (Fund IX) with USD3.4 billion in total commitments.
Alliance Etiquettes, a French specialist in label printing for the wine and spirits industry, has acquired Etiq’Etains, a specialist in the pewter label printing market in France.
Bot MD, an AI healthcare company based in Singapore, has closed a Series A round of USD5 million led by Monk’s Hill Ventures.
The Governments of Luxembourg and Cote d’Ivoire will invest a total of EUR10 million into Bamboo Capital Partners’s BLOC Smart Africa, a technology impact fund with a target of EUR100 million.
The move follows Cote d’Ivoire’s previous intention to commit EUR5 million to the fund, announced at the UN’s High-Level Political Forum in July last year.
The fund will invest in high-growth potential start-ups to scale up across the continent, and is part of the Smart Africa Alliance, a pan-African initiative to accelerate sustainable socioeconomic development by investing in underserved African communities.
The organisation helps funds with fundraising efforts, by
SujiBFR, a health and fitness startup based in Edinburgh, has received a six-figure investment to support the development of a smart fitness device that can dramatically reduce pain and increase muscle strength during exercise.
The technology, named Suji Device, improves muscular performance and offers a solution to fitness enthusiasts and elite athletes who experience pain when exercising or playing sport.
Based on blood flow restriction (BFR) training principles, the AI-powered device utilises low-intensity and bodyweight exercise to offer the same training benefits achieved with high-intensity weight training.
Tennis champion Jamie Murray and his partner Alejandra Murray invested in SujiBFR during
PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with lower middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies, has closed PSG Europe, the firm’s debut Europe-focused fund, with EUR1.25 billion in limited third-party partner commitments.
The fund, which was oversubscribed, received commitments from existing and new PSG investors, including state pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and high net worth individuals. The final close of PSG Europe brings PSG’s aggregate capital commitments across the US and Europe to more than USD5 billion.
The London-based PSG Europe team consists of 22 investment professionals advising on fund investments in European growth-stage and lower middle-market
Funds advised by Permira Debt Managers (PDM), a specialist debt investor, are acting as senior secured lender to the new investment by The Carlyle Group in Jagex, an independent video game developer in the UK.
The support continues PDM’s focus on high quality growing businesses, particularly in the tech sector.
Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and employing more than 450 people, Jagex is one of the largest and most successful British video game studios, developing and publishing video games on PC and mobile. The company is best known for its online role-playing living game franchise RuneScape, which has attracted almost
Loanpal, America’s number one point-of-sale payment platform for sustainable home solutions, has closed its first external investment round at more than USD800 million led by NEA and WestCap Group, as well as Brookfield Asset Management, Riverstone Holdings and private investors.
As part of the transaction, which closed in 2020, Scott Sandell, Managing General Partner at NEA, and Laurence Tosi, Managing Partner of WestCap Group, have joined the company’s board of directors.
“We are solving big world problems with industry-leading technology that makes it easier for everyone to live a more sustainable lifestyle,” says Hayes Barnard, Founder, Chairman and CEO of
Investments into the online healthcare sector soared in 2020, supercharged by Covid-19. According to the research data analysed and published by Finaria, the total digital health funding in 2020 amounted to USD21.6 billion. VC funding led with a total of USD14.8 billion across 637 deals, a 66 per cent year-over-year (YoY) uptick.
Based on a Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) report, investments in the healthcare sector as a whole amounted to USD51 billion during the year. Biopharma led in deal value, with investments worth USD24.5 billion across 570 deals.
The total VC funding in the digital health sector set a new
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