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BGF has successfully exited its investment in leading care provider, CSN Care Group (CSN) to Clece Care Services, a national care provider currently operating successfully in more than 70 locations across the UK.
BGF invested GBP4 million in the Edinburgh-headquartered CSN in December 2020. It operates a national network of branches across the UK and its care brands include Carewatch, MyLife and New Directions.
The funding provided by BGF supported CSN to grow its network and pursue selected M&A opportunities. In the period since late 2020, CSN has completed four acquisitions in Glasgow, Welwyn Garden City and Horsham, in
Aquanow, a digital asset infrastructure company and crypto liquidity provider, is to join the Pyth network.
Aquanow will feed its high-quality digital asset data to Pyth, a specialised oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data, and help deliver market access to trusted pricing.
The Pyth Network delivers accurate, timely and verifiable market data to decentralised applications on a sub-second timescale. There are now over 50 publishers providing first-party quality data into Pyth across crypto assets, equities, and FX. Pyth is rapidly growing and has reached USD1.5 billion in DeFi total value locked derived from the exciting projects and protocols consuming Pyth
Alternate assets manager Vivaris Capital has launch a new, multi-strategy fund, the VICAN Fund, offering hybrid hedge and private equity structures.
AltExchange has launched what it says is the industry’s first fully-automated alternative investment reporting and management platform.
AltExchange automates and aggregates data on all alternative investments, from small fractional shares of cryptocurrency to multi-million dollar private equity investments, on a single platform. Investors can track up to USD1 million in assets with AltExchange for free.
AltExchange is founded by serial entrepreneur Zak Boca and former Bloomberg executive and Bloomberg Terminal developer Kareem Hamady.
New York- and London-based HealthTech venture firm Eckuity has invested in Mobius Biomedical, a development-stage company designing disruptive new technology and processes for lower cost, next-generation biologics manufacturing.
Mobius Biomedical’s disruptive technology will significantly reduce facility footprint, setup time, and cost, while at the same time providing the flexibility to manufacture a diverse set of biological drug products, as its flexible equipment modules are designed to enable continuous manufacturing of protein-therapeutics, RNA-therapeutics, and gene therapies. Mobius’ technologies will provide reductions in manufacturing cost and time to market, while simultaneously improving product yield and purity.
CodiKoat, a portfolio company of GreenBank Capital has delivered a new biosafety product to solve a significant public touchscreen health hazard.
Furthermore, in support of delivering this groundbreaking public health solution, the Cambridge based biotech firm has entered into partnerships with two market-leading UK-based manufacturers, BDK and Keeling & Walker.
In partnering with both these companies, Codikoat’s aim is to now produce a fully transparent adhesive film that, once administered, offers incredible sanitising protection without interfering with the displays of touch screen devices.
nThrive, a healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group (together with certain affiliates, Clearlake), has changed its name to FinThrive, which will be formally launched through a pending rebrand.
The new name signals the company’s intention to break the cycle of inefficiency associated with traditional RCM technologies, while designing a modern software approach that empowers stakeholders across healthcare’s financial ecosystem. The Company is rethinking revenue cycle management and providing healthcare leaders with the tools to realise an integrated technology approach to ensure financial health.
As FinThrive, the Company will continue to transform
Cloud8, the developer of a digital employee benefits platform has raised GBP750,000 from Mercia to further enhance its product.
Cloud8’s platform BEAM at Work allows employee benefits consultancies and other advisers to deliver services online, and improve efficiency and client service. It aims to fill a gap in the market for an easy-to-use platform that is accessible to companies of all sizes, including SMEs. Launched two years ago, it is already being used by a wide range of consultancies and has recently signed a deal with a leading employee benefits provider.
Cloud8 was established by an experienced management team
Global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) has accompanied funds advised by HIG WhiteHorse (‘HIG’) on an acquisition financing.
IG is providing debt financing for Waterland Private Equity’s acquisition of shares in the RUF Group via two brands RUF|Betten and BRUNO. The seller of the shares is NORD Holding.
The RUF Group is one of the leading suppliers of premium beds in the German market. BRUNO, based in Berlin, is a direct-to-consumer (D2C) company specialising in the online direct distribution of high-quality designer box spring beds and sofa beds. With the support of the new owner and buy-&-build investor
Ethos has invested in UK emergency and alternative water services provider, Water Direct, from Heathcote Holdings.
Headquartered in Earl’s Colne, Essex, Water Direct provides alternative and emergency (A&E) water and water services to the majority of UK water utilities and to over 600 businesses.
The company offers its services through the UK’s largest dedicated fleet of water tankers and through its unique Nationwide Bottled Water BankTM consisting of 20 strategically located storage sites.
The transaction facilitates the management buy-in led by Adam Johnson, principal of Soris Capital, who will run the business as CEO post-completion.
Ethos invested alongside Adam, a
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