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Omega Funds, an international investment firm focused on delivering impactful medicines to patients, has closed Omega Fund VI with USD438 million in capital commitments. Fund VI will continue to execute on the firm’s strategy of creating and investing in life sciences companies that target the most urgent medical needs. Since its inception in 2004, Omega Funds has raised more than USD1 billion to invest in exceptional entrepreneurs developing innovative products across multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology, immunology, rare diseases, precision medicine and others. Omega Funds has a strong track record of identifying and supporting great management teams and companies by
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has made a significant growth investment to recapitalise Endo1 Partners (Endo1), a fast-growing specialty dental services organisation headquartered in Houston. VSS has partnered with co-founders Dr Matthew Haddad, Dr Daryl Dudum, Dr Mark Haddad, and Dr Darron Rishwain. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Formed in 2019 with operations in Texas and California, Endo1 provides comprehensive knowledge, resources and shared back-office support to endodontists across the country through an Endodontic Partnership Organization (“EPO”). Endo1’s offering empowers endodontists’ ability to provide
International law firm Ashurst advised long-standing client Agilitas Private Equity on the sale of Norway-based property remediation and environmental services specialist Recover Nordic to EQT Partners. The deal gives the company an enterprise value of NOK3 billion (GBP248 million). Recover Nordic, which was acquired by Agilitas in 2013, is the largest emergency response and damage control business in the Nordic region, primarily serving insurance companies, municipalities, industrial and commercial clients. Following the Agilitas-backed management buyout, Recover Nordic has experienced strong organic growth and completed 17 add-on acquisitions. Headquartered in Oslo, the company has over 2,100 employees across 92 locations in
Ada Ventures has raised a new USD34 million (GBP27 million) fund which will invests in ‘overlooked’ company founders. At present, 92 in every 100 dollars invested in Europe goes to all male teams, 83 per cent founders are white, 82 per cent are university educated. In the UK, a quarter of investment committees saw no female founders in 2017 and 72 per cent of Venture Capital funding is invested in London alone.   Ada Ventures was founded to change that. Ada Ventures is a first-cheque seed fund, and is on a mission to make venture capital truly accessible to the
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With a predicted USD275 billion of investment expected from US wireless providers over the next few years, not to mention up to three million new jobs and an annual USD500 billion GDP boost for the US economy, it’s no wonder that 5G is being a dubbed truly transformative technology. And as James Williams finds out, private equity investors are keen to help finance the revolution…
Outlier Ventures, a venture platform focused on growth investing, has become the lead adviser to and an investor in Cudo Ventures, a provider of cloud computing and monetisation software. Cudo is the leading player in the rapidly growing and developing market for the next generation of cloud computing. The company is focused on a new, more equitable way of cloud computing by providing a technology platform that links hardware owners with spare capacity, to organisations who require spare compute power in order to complete workloads such as Video Rendering, Machine Learning Deployment and Seismic Imaging. Cudo Compute’s solution provides customers
Souter Investments has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Stone Group, an ICT services provider, in an equity and debt refinancing of the business led by CEO Simon Harbridge and the existing management team. Founded in 1991, Stone Group has assisted thousands of organisations in adapting and thriving in a continually changing technology landscape by deploying valuable technology, delivering personalised services and providing reliable IT support.   The deal sees private equity investor RJD Partners (RJD) realise its investment which was acquired via a management buy-out of Stone Group in 2008. Certain of RJD’s investors will retain an
Prime Capital AG, an independent alternative asset manager and financial services provider, has received the first Second-Party Opinion on an infrastructure equity fund from Sustainalytics, a global specialist in ESG research, ratings and analysis. Prime Capital’s planned Green Energy Infrastructure Fund, investing primarily in greenfield onshore wind projects in the Nordics, will support the transition to a low-carbon economy and deliver environmental benefits related to greenhouse gas mitigation. Sustainalytics considers the Fund’s intended investments to advance UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy. The planned Fund volume amounts to EUR 500 million and has a net equity
Foresight Group (Foresight) and Williams Advanced Engineering (Williams) have a made a GBP1.6 million investment into Oxford University spin-out Mixergy Limited (Mixergy), a specialist in smart hot water tanks. Mixergy was founded in 2014 by Peter Armstrong, CEO, and Ren Kang, Head of R&D, following the completion of their PhD research at Oxford University where the duo originally developed the idea during their doctoral research. The team has since grown to 17 staff and built strong relationships with British Gas, a major installer of tanks. The Company brings innovation to an industry which has historically seen little investment or development; existing
Cyan Forensics – an Edinburgh-based start-up producing technology to help police investigators find evidence faster – has secured a further GBP1.3m from a consortium of investors. The funding, which has come from Triple Point Investment Management, Mercia, SIS Ventures, the Scottish Investment Bank and private investors, will support the company’s expansion and allow it to target new markets in Northern Europe. It follows its recent contract with the UK’s Home Office, which will see the technology being used by the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) and rolled out to police forces nationally.   Cyan Forensics’ digital analysis tool can find terrorist

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