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Grand Rounds, a healthcare quality and clinical navigation company, has secured a USD175 million round led by investment funds affiliated with global investment firm The Carlyle Group.
The healthcare focused company will use the funds to accelerate clinical navigation and virtual primary care. Grand Rounds has raised over USD270 million to date.
“We are at a turning point in American healthcare, a moment when healthcare has become virtual-first and data can be used to dramatically improve outcomes,” said Owen Tripp, co-founder and chief executive officer of Grand Rounds.
“Since our founding, Grand Rounds has helped millions navigate their way through
Impact investment platform Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo), and Palladium, a global impact advisory and management firm, have entered into a long-term strategic partnership to ‘deliver impact at scale’. Under the terms of the strategic partnership, Palladium has taken a minority stake in Bamboo.
Bamboo and Palladium have joined forces to achieve their shared objective of mobilising private sector investment at scale to significantly contribute toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The strategic partnership combines Bamboo’s knowledge of institutional and private sector investors and its track record of impact investing in emerging markets, with Palladium’s global footprint, sector
Bullhorn, a cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organisations transform their businesses, has secured Stone Point Capital as its new lead investor. Insight Partners and Genstar will remain as investors in the business. Stone Point was attracted to Bullhorn on the strength of its long-term opportunity to serve the global staffing and recruiting industry, its consistent revenue growth, and its reputation for customer success. The entire Bullhorn management team will remain with the company to execute on its strategic roadmap and continue its mission to create an incredible customer experience.
The staffing and recruiting industry has increasingly embraced
Dawn Capital, a European venture capital fund dedicated to B2B software, has closed Dawn IV at the fund’s hard cap of EUR333 million/USD400 million.The fund was oversubscribed and closed within six months of launch, after receiving strong support from existing investors and attracting new investors from the US, Europe and Asia. The investors committing to the fund comprise leading institutional investors, including pension funds, endowment funds, fund of funds as well as family offices and high net-worth individuals.
Dawn IV will pursue the same strategy as its predecessor funds, investing in Series A and B rounds in Europe’s leading
Athennian, developers of a cloud-based legal entity management software, has secured an USD8 million Series A investment, led by Arthur Ventures, and a previously unannounced USD2 million seed financing round from Q3 2019, bringing the total level of funding to USD10 million. Alongside, Arthur Ventures, whose General Partner, Patrick Meenan, has joined Athennian’s board, today’s funding round is supported by Round13 Capital, InterGen Capital, ATB Financial, and existing investors: Thin Air Labs, BlueSky Equities, Viewpoint Capital, Strategic Equities, and others.
Athennian’s software is used by legal departments and professional services firms to automate subsidiary and entity management. The funds will be
AUA Private Equity Partners has acquired Westminster Pet Products (Westminster), a family-owned developer and marketer of pet treats, chews and supplies as well as shoe care products. Westminster operates out of a 240k square foot BRC-AA certified facility located in Cumberland, Rhode Island, selling to a robust blue-chip North American customer base.
Westminster represents AUA Private Equity’s first platform investment in the pet industry which is supported by attractive industry tailwinds and increasing consumer spending on pets as extensions of the core family. AUA Private Equity will work with existing management to continue the Company’s growth trajectory through product development, increased
Key Capital Partners (KCP) has backed educational virtual reality business, Avantis Systems, with a GBP4.25 million investment. Founded in 2007 by CEO Nik Tuson, Gloucester based Avantis has a strong pedigree in the delivery of educational technology solutions in the classroom.In 2017 it launched ClassVR, a complete system of hardware, software and content that enables teachers to immerse their pupils in a wide variety of virtual reality experiences, sparking creativity and improving pupil engagement. Sales of ClassVR have grown rapidly in the three years since launch with over 40,000 VR headsets now deployed in more than 3,000 schools around the
Infoblox, a specialist in Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, has secured a significant investment from private equity growth investment firm Warburg Pincus. Vista Equity Partners (Vista), an investment firm focused on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, which acquired Infoblox in 2016, will continue as an investor, with Warburg Pincus and Vista equal partners.
Infoblox is a provider of core networking and cybersecurity solutions that enable enterprise IT managers, network operators, security operators and Chief Information Security Officers to optimise and secure their networks. The investment will help Infoblox accelerate the growth of its core DDI products and continue to invest in
Clearwater International has advised Access Creative College, a UKp-based specialist provider of education in the creative industries to 16-19-year olds, on its investment from Apiary Capital (Apiary), a specialist mid-market private equity firm.
Private investment firm GI Partners has held the final closing of its inaugural Data Infrastructure Fund with USD1.8 billion in capital commitments from a broad group of investors. The fund was oversubscribed, surpassing its initial target of USD1.25 billion.
The GI Data Infrastructure Fund continues the firm’s 20-year history of control-oriented investing in hard asset infrastructure companies and properties underpinning the digital economy. The Fund will invest across four data infrastructure sub-sectors data centres, data transport, wireless access, and tech-enabled infrastructure, primarily in North America. The team, which works closely with the firm’s private equity and real estate teams and
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