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Industry Ventures, an investment firm focused on venture capital and private technology, has made key additions to its investment and operations team. Additionally, the firm has slosh made a number of internal promotions.
Pat Hanson joined the firm in July 2021 as Chief Administrative Officer and took over the Chief Compliance Officer role in November 2021.
Jon Wong joined the firm in October 2021 as a Vice President on the Tech Buyout team, while Valerie Lau joined the firm in September 2021 as Vice President of Legal where she will support all legal functions for the firm.
Additional team hires
FSN Capital VI is to invest in OptiGroup and Hygas to create a major player in the business-to-business (B2B) distribution market. Existing shareholders and the management team will retain minority stakes in the combined group.
The investment in OptiGroup and Hygas, which will have combined revenues of around EUR1.3 billion and EBITDA in excess of EUR100 million, is in line with FSN Capital’s approach to transform companies and make them more international, sustainable and competitive.
Headquartered in Mölndal, Sweden, OptiGroup is a leading Northern European B2B distributor with a broad product offering in Facility, Safety & Foodservice, Packaging Solutions, and
FNZ, a global wealth management platform, has completed the sale of financial technology provider GBST to Anchorage Capital Partners, a global private equity fund with extensive financial services and systems experience.
Anchorage Capital Partners’ investment is focussed on GBST’s Wealth Management division and is committed to supporting GBST’s experienced management team in executing its growth strategy and delivering market leading solutions to clients. This includes support for continued investment and the rollout of the technology transformation of GBST’s market leading platform solution Composer to current and prospective clients.
Following the transaction, FNZ will reacquire GBST’s capital markets division including
FFL Partners (FFL), a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, and Two Sigma Impact, the impact investing business of Two Sigma, have acquired opioid treatment programme provider Community Medical Services (CMS).
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, CMS operates more than 45 clinics in nine states that provide high-efficacy opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, while reducing the stigma associated with it.
COSIMO Ventures, a venture capital investment firm that provides investors access to high-potential blockchain projects through the world’s first tokenised, evergreen venture fund, COSIMO X, has made the COSIMO X tokens available for trading on digital assets marketplace Securitize Markets.
Cosimo X’s listing, allows a broader group of global investors access to the growth potential of COSIMO’s venture portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and trade the token on a secondary market. The ability to trade the token on the secondary market may improve liquidity and access for the fund and its investors.
Cogsy, a real-time operational intelligence and supply chain management platform for SME e-commerce merchants, has raised a USD6 million seed round led by Accel with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, WooCommerce (Automattic), Sugar Capital, and RiverPark Ventures.
Angel investors including Casey Armstrong (CMO, ShipBob), Jay Myers (co-founder, Bold Commerce), Brian Long (co-founder and CEO, Attentive), Tomer Tagrin and Omri Cohen (co-founders, Yotpo) also participated in the round.
The investment will be used to make key hires at all levels across functions and geographies, as Cogsy is a fully distributed team. The funding will allow Cogsy to build on the platform’s
Clessidra Private Equity SGR has finalised an agreement for the acquisition of a majority stake in Formula Impresoft, a technology hub in the Italian software and services market, from Xenon Private Equity VII SCA SICAV RAIF.
The top management of Impresoft Group, composed largely of the founders, will keep a significant stake in the company.
The investment in Impresoft Group marks the third transaction of Clessidra Capital Partners 4 fund, whose first closing took place last June. Italmobiliare will participate in the transaction as a co-investor.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Jon Selib, former Senior Vice President of Global Policy & Public Affairs at Pfizer, as Managing Director and Global External Affairs Leader.
In his new role, which will take effect in March 2022, Selib will lead CD&R’s engagement with key external stakeholders, including media, government, and trade associations, and work with CD&R portfolio companies on initiatives to improve communications and public affairs outreach.
Calibrate Ventures has raised USD97 million in new funds for its second fund Calibrate II , which will partner with founders building the next generation of AI and automation companies. Fund II will build on the firm’s track record of investing in early-stage AI and automation startups rapidly transforming industries such as education, healthcare, logistics, law, financial services, manufacturing, and transportation.
Amid strong continued demand from limited partners, Calibrate Fund II is over 20 per cent larger than the firm’s fully-invested first fund, which backed many notable AI and automation leaders such as Built Robotics, Embodied, FarmWise, Soft Robotics, Talage,
Healthcare investor BPOC has made a strategic investment in Alliance Physical Therapy Partners (Alliance), a provider of physical therapy services across the US.
Alliance is a national physical therapy operator offering outpatient physical therapy across a network of 90-plus clinics in 14 states. In addition to traditional physical therapy, Alliance offers virtual physical therapy, a workplace therapy solution, in-hospital services, and a comprehensive electronic medical record platform.
Financial terms of the transactions, which will see BPOC partner with the existing management team, led by Richard Leaver, have not been disclosed.
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