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Kaia Health, a digital therapeutics company, has close an USD8 million funding round, the second significant investment this year. The infusion of capital is led by Optum Ventures.
Kaia Health has developed a smartphone-based approach for managing a range of chronic conditions, with its leading product focused on musculoskeletal disorders (MSK) such as chronic back pain. The investment by Optum Ventures helps Kaia Health address the rising costs of treating MSK-related conditions, the difficulty patients have in accessing gold-standard treatment, and the need for innovative, scaleable and cost-effective technology solutions to confront this issue.
Kaia Health’s world-leading 2D motion
Colorcon has launched Colorcon Ventures to invest in promising companies in the pharmaceutical industry.
Colorcon’s business focus is on advanced coating systems, modified release technologies and functional excipients for use in pharmaceutical immediate and modified release dosage forms.
Colorcon Ventures is a USD50 million venture fund focused on startups that are strategically relevant to the core Colorcon business. The fund will target investments in transformational solutions across manufacturing, supply chain, and delivery of pharmaceutical products and services. The fund is not investing in companies developing active ingredients or molecules.
The fund will be stage-agnostic, with an emphasis on
CAPZA, a private investment platform focusing on small and midcaps, is co-arranging, with BNP Paribas Principle Investments and AXA IM, the unitranche refinancing of La Maison Bleue.
Founded in 2004, La Maison Bleue manages a network of over 280 collective nurseries in France and 60 in Europe (Switzerland, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom). La Maison Bleue is supported by its investors TowerBrook and Bpifrance who have had majority shares since 2016.
CAPZA, BNP Paribas Principle Investments and AXA IM have co-arranged a refinancing deal of EUR150 million. The aim of this deal is to allow for greater development and flexibility
The number of Jersey Private Funds (JPF) had increased 25 per cent in six months. Figures from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) showed that the number of JPFs, a structure introduced in 2017 to cater specifically for the needs of small groups of sophisticated investors, had reached 257 by 30 June 2019, up from 205 at the end of 2018, with assets under management of GBP43 billion.
Joe Moynihan, CEO of Jersey Finance, says: “As investors look for stable IFCs that offer specialist expertise, Jersey can be a voice of reason among the noise, ready to support investor ambitions.”
Sphera, a provider of integrated risk management software and information services with a focus on Environmental Health & Safety, Operational Risk and Product Stewardship, has acquired thinkstep, a Stuttgart, Germany-based software and information services company that specialises in Corporate Sustainability and Product Stewardship.
The deal, announced in July, was completed after German regulatory authorities approved the acquisition.
“thinkstep’s cloud-based and on-premise software, data and expertise in the Corporate Sustainability and Product Stewardship markets support our mission of creating a safer, more sustainable and productive world,” says Paul Marushka, Sphera’s president and CEO. “Sphera’s acquisition of thinkstep advances our Integrated
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a supplier of predictive Advanced Process Modelling (APM) software and services, is exiting the AlbionVC portfolio to join Siemens AG in Q4 this year, for an undisclosed amount.
PSE’s advanced process models are used within digital R&D, design and operations in the process industries to help make fast, safe and more efficient decisions through rapid and effective exploration of the decision space. The technology is widely used in the chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and food industries to accelerate innovation, improve process design and operation, streamline R&D and manage technology risk.
Siemens and PSE have been collaborating
Prime Capital AG has again expanded its offering to invest in the aviation market. With a financing volume of more than USD 1 billion in more than 200 aircraft, the independent asset manager and financial services provider has become one of the leading German investment managers in the aviation financing market.
Building on this success, the company will now also facilitate equity investments in aircraft, together with its strategic partner 360 Aircraft Finance GmbH (360AF). The five-member 360AF possesses comprehensive commercial and technical expertise and can draw on many years of successful track record, as well as a broad network
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has completed the majority recapitalisation of vertical transportation services (VTS) provider Southwest Elevator Company (Southwest).
Third generation VTS operator, Tom Cavinder, will remain with the Company as CEO and lead its national buy-and-build growth strategy.
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Southwest is an independent union provider of preventative maintenance, repair, and modernization services for elevators and escalators. The Company services properties throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth (“DFW”) metroplex across a variety of end-markets.
“Alongside our dedicated service team at Southwest, I’m excited for our next phase of growth with ACP,” says Cavinder. “I chose to partner with
Ropes & Gray has advised pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital on its acquisition of a majority stake in European hose and subsystem designer and manufacturer BOA Purified Solutions & BOA Flexible Solutions (based in The Netherlands and France) – now known as BOA CoreDux.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
It is the third acquisition that Ropes & Gray has advised Silverfleet Capital on since December 2017.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partner Phil Sanderson and private equity associate Tarun Patel, both based in the firm’s London office. Dutch legal
European debt investor Permira Debt Managers (PDM) has held the the final close of its fifth structured credit fund Permira Sigma V (Sigma V).
Sigma V will continue the successes of the Sigma strategy, investing long-term capital in European CLOs, in both the primary and secondary markets. The Fund specialises in the most junior parts of the CLO capital structure where PDM’s credit-led approach provides the greatest differentiation. The Fund has already made several investments, predominantly in the secondary market, that are generating highly attractive cash yields.
Thomas Kyriakoudis, Chief Investment Officer of Permira Debt Managers, says: “The Sigma
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