Managers
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to acquire a majority interest in WebPT from previous investor, Battery Ventures.
Since its launch in 2008, WebPT has maintained a track record of steady growth. Today, it provides electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software for outpatient physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists.
The fast-growing healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) company – which was recently named to the Inc. 5000 list for the seventh-consecutive year – has become the category leader in its space with 85,000 customers at more than 15,000 clinics across the US and its territories.
“Warburg Pincus has an
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the mid-market, has acquired SSJA Bariatric Management (SSJA), a provider of administrative support services to bariatric surgery offices in the New York metropolitan area.
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
SSJA provides administrative services to 15 bariatric surgery offices in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut that collectively operate as the New York Bariatric Group and employ bariatric surgeons, other specialists, and physician assistants. Founded by Dr. Shawn Garber, SSJA supports practices that offer a full suite of bariatric
Cotton Creek Capital (Cotton Creek) has closed Cotton Creek Capital Partners III with USD215 million in capital commitments.
The Fund includes a diverse group of limited partners, including high net worth families and individuals, multi-family offices, endowments and foundations, and other institutional investors. Cotton Creek targets control investments in growth driven lower middle market businesses.
“The closing of this fund represents a continuation of our relationship-based investment strategy focused on operational execution in the lower middle market,” says Antonio DiGesualdo, Managing Partner. “Our experience enables us to work alongside our management teams to develop a focused vision and execution plan,
Algo Capital, the financial institution focused on accelerating access, adoption and liquidity of the Algo, the native digital currency of the Algorand blockchain, has closed of its Algo VC Fund at USD200 million, surpassing the firm’s original goal of USD100 million.
The fund will invest in category-leading businesses that are building on the Algorand technology platform and seeks to accelerate the use and acceptance of the Algo as a means of payment.
The fund is backed by a collection of experienced financial and blockchain industry investors across North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe, including Brainchild, NGC Ventures (the venture
Astarte Capital Partners is hoping that its new discretionary co-investment platform, the Astarte Special Opportunities Platform (ASOP), will help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ and encourage a greater alignment of interests with operating companies over the long term.
“The way we see ourselves is bringing global institutional capital to Europe to invest in real assets,” explains Dr Stavros Siokos, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Astarte Capital Partners, whose offices sit in South Kensington, London. “We are mainly looking at Europe. Anything west of Poland and anything from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.
“The reason we launched Astarte is because
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European private equity firm, is to sell CPL Holdings (Cartonplast), an operator of sustainable pools of returnable transport packaging materials (RTP), to German private equity investor Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and the DBAG-advised DBAG Fund VII.
Closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.
Stirling Square created the Company in 2013 with a simultaneous double buy-out of private equity-owned Cartonplast Group GmbH and family-owned Trading Cartonplast Iberica SA. Since then, Stirling Square has worked closely with management to achieve seamless integration, efficient and effective partnerships with clients, as well as organic and external
Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to make a strategic growth investment in the Gong Cha Group (Gong Cha), a provider of premium quality bubble and milk tea.
The founders of Gong Cha Korea will participate in the investment alongside TA. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in early October, have not been disclosed.
Gong Cha’s main offering, Taiwanese-style bubble tea, is sweet milk tea infused with pearl-shaped tapioca. The company also offers a variety of seasonal and specialty tea-based drinks. Utilising primarily a franchise model, Gong Cha reaches consumers through a variety of
Texas-based investment firm Satori Capital has completed a USD30 million investment in Cicero Capital Partners.
The investment is part of the Satori XL Partnership Program, which forms strategic acceleration partnerships with talented emerging investment managers that typically have at least a three-year track record and less than USD100 million of AUM.
Based in Columbia, Maryland, Cicero actively manages a portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other commercial real estate structured opportunities. The firm’s AUM as of 1 July, 2019, is approximately USD77 million.
Cicero’s portfolio managers have developed a comprehensive due diligence process over a combined 38 years of
Presight Capital has held the successful closing of its first fund, Presight Global Venture Opportunities Fund, with a volume of USD80 million.
Due to high demand, the original target volume of USD50 million was increased to USD80 million, and the fund, which was scheduled to close on 31 August, closed early on 31 July.
Presight Capital is the international venture arm of Apeiron Investment Group, the family office of German entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer. Angermayer founded Presight with Fabian Hansen early this year. Through Presight, this will be the first time Apeiron will be managing outside money.
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Private equity firm NexPhase Capital (NexPhase) has sold InsideRE Holdings (Inside Real Estate), a provider of cloud-based real estate software, to Lovell Minnick Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
One of the first technology providers in the industry to offer an end-to-end platform with all of the necessary tools to succeed in one place, Inside Real Estate has built, acquired and integrated software solutions that were previously missing in the market. Since partnering with the Company in 2016, NexPhase has worked closely with Ned Stringham, CEO of InsideRE, and the rest of its leadership team to bolster
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