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Avi Medical, a data-driven healthcare provider, has raised EUR50 million in a Series B funding round led by Balderton Capital.
Existing investors including Berlin-based healthcare fund Heal Capital and New York-based Addition also joined the round, alongside Picus Capital, Vorwerk Ventures, Eurazeo and 3VC.
UiPath founder Daniel Dines and Forward Health Founder Adrian Auon also participated in the round.
The company will use the funding to expand the business from eight to at least 100 clinics across Germany by 2024. At the same time, Avi will continue to develop its technology to improve the experience of both patients and doctors.
Circulate Capital, a Singapore-based investment management firm that finances innovations, companies, and infrastructure to prevent ocean plastic and climate change by advancing the circular economy, has invested in Deluxe Recycling Private Limited (Deluxe) via the Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF I).
Cathay Capital has appointed Kamran-Charles Vossoughi as Global Operating Partner for the industrial sector.
The new role is designed to answer the evolving needs of investors, corporations and businesses of all sizes navigating the digital transformation era with Vossoughi focusing on the climatetech, energy and mobility verticals. The news follows a recent expansion of the firm’s leadership team for its venture capital practice, Cathay Innovation, with the promotions of Simon Wu and Jean-François Cochy to Partners in the US and France, respectively.
Most recently the CEO of Michelin China, Vossoughi brings over 20 years of best-in-class industrial expertise to support
Pipeline Technique, an onshore and offshore infrastructure welding, coating and fabrication specialists backed by private equity firm Bluewater, has acquired Global Project Services (GPS) from Global Energy Group (GEG).
GPS is headquartered in Invergordon and has a presence in Bergen, Norway. The company specialises in pre-fabrication, field specialist welding and mechanical works for the infrastructure, nuclear, LNG, hook-up, and decommissioning sectors. GPS is also the UK’s and European’s leading field specialist welding subcontractor.
The acquisition will enable Pipeline Technique to fulfil some of its strategic growth goals and, through sector diversification and geographic expansion, provide a broader range of
British VC JamJar Investments has raised a fund of over GBP100 million from institutional investors, founders and via a crowdfund to expand their ability to back early-stage consumer brands across the UK and Europe.
This includes a cornerstone commitment of GBP48 million from the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) programme, making JamJar the largest ECF to date.
This second fund, the first institutionally backed fund for JamJar, will solidify their position as the UK’s leading consumer fund and allow them to invest in and support an even greater number of ambitious founders. The JamJar partners are once again
Kempen European Private Equity Fund II, the private equity fund managed by Van Lanschot Kempen has closed with total committed capital of EUR245 million, the fund’s maximum target size.
The Private Markets team at Van Lanschot Kempen manages assets based on three strategies and since its start in the summer of 2017, has accumulated assets under management of around EUR1.2 billion. One of the funds that it manages, Kempen European Private Equity Fund II is aimed at the small to mid-market segment of the European buy-out private equity market. It is a hybrid investment fund that combines investments in private
Verdane, a European specialist growth equity investor, has committed to neutralise all its future residual emissions with engineered, permanent carbon removals, essentially extracting CO2 out of the air and either storing it or converting it to naturally occurring materials such as stone.
As the first private equity investor globally to make this commitment, Verdane aims to catalyse demand for crucial net zero technologies that urgently need to be scaled and brought down the cost curve.
To accelerate the progression toward global net zero, Verdane is partnering with three highly respected carbon removal service providers: Climeworks, a Swiss firm operating the
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has been formally renamed British International Investment (BII). Watch here.
The organisation will invest between GBP1.5 and GBP2 billion per year in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors to support countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
Situated in seven locations across the Continent, BII has a portfolio value of over USD4 billion, with over 600 local businesses. Portfolio highlights include: Global Partnership for Ethiopia, FirstBank Nigeria, 14Trees, ETG, AfricInvest, Novastar, Zambeef, Equity Bank, Access Bank plc, Redstone Concentrated Solar Power Project among many more.
Alter Pharma, a Belgian pharmaceutical group focused on the distribution of medicines and the development and manufacturing of generic drugs commercialized worldwide, and a portfolio company of The Riverside Company, has invested in EcoPharmaSupply (EPS). Also a Belgian pharmaceutical services and product company, EPS is a distributor and partner of choice of several pharmaceutical brands on the Benelux market, including prescription drugs, medical devices, OTC pharmaceuticals and consumer health products.
Riverside acquired a majority stake in Alter Pharma in December 2017. Under Riverside’s ownership, the company has successfully launched several injectable products on the US market, invested in a promising
Secure Systems Innovation Corporation (SSIC) the innovators behind X-Analytics, a cyber risk decisioning application, has launched X-Analytics – PE Edition providing private equity and other investment firms with insights into their portfolios’ financial exposure to cyber risk.
The new offering allows investment leaders to make more effective cyber investments and meet the anticipated US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed regulatory requirements impacting the investment management industry and publicly listed companies.
X-Analytics – PE Edition (XA-PE) is a highly scalable application tailored to the needs of private equity and other investment firms.
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