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HypnoVR, a market leader in the field of digital therapies to manage pain and stress, today announces that it has raised EUR4.5 million (USD5.1 million) in a Series A funding round.
This fundraising involved several newcomers, including lead investor Theodorus (Belgium), the Banque des Territoires (France) operating for the French state as part of the Investments for the Future Programme (Programme d’investissements d’avenir, PIA), Akiles (Belgium) and Capital Grand Est via Alsace Création (France).
They were joined by some of the company’s previous investors, including Guillaume Richard, founder and CEO of OuiCare (French market leader in home care services), and
Oxbotica, a specialist in open autonomous vehicle software backed by BGF, bp ventures, Halma, HostPlus, IP Group, Tencent, Venture Science, funds advised by Doxa Partners, Ocado Group and ZF. has appointed Gavin Jackson as CEO.
Jackson I experienced in the technology sector, having previously held senior leadership positions at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). As Microsoft UK managing director, Gavhein was responsible for leading its enterprise commercial business, and as AWS managing director, he oversaw all EMEA operations.
Onex Corporation’s USD7.2 billion Onex Partners V fund is to acquire to acquire Tes Global (Tes), an education technology services provider, from Providence Equity Partners (Providence), a premier private equity firm that specialises in growth-oriented investments in media, communications, education and technology.
Financial terms of the deal, which will see the TES management team also invest alongside Onex, have not been disclosed.
The transaction is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2022, and will see Onex Partners V approximately 78 per cent invested.
Advent France Biotechnology (AFB), an AMF-regulated investment company dedicated to life sciences, is changing its company name to AdBio partners.
The name change reflects the company’s expansion beyond France with UK-based partner Advent Life Sciences.
AdBio Partners held the first close of its second fund at EUR86 million (USD102 million) in September 2021. This fund will be used to create, develop and finance European life sciences start-ups, with the goal of selecting and financing two before the end of 2021. second fund is larger than the first seed fund launched in 2017, which closed at EUR68 million.
Active Partners has invested GBP10 million in a Series A funding round for Facetheory, a direct-to-consumer clean skincare brand based in South Yorkshire.
The investment will be used to fuel growth in key markets, recruit best-in-class talent, and invest in product research and development. The investment team at Active Partners was led by Jason Mahendran and Janice Cargo, who will also be joining the Facetheory board.
Numis, an independent investment bank, has made several new hires in its Growth Capital Solutions team, within the Investment Banking division and appointed new Head of Operations.
Numis’ Growth Capital Solutions team supports a broad range of innovative, high-growth private companies, through primary and secondary capital raisings, strategic and M&A advice.
The new appointments are: Gbolahan Ladipo, Director, Growth Capital Solutions; Rachel Stott, Associate Director, Growth Capital Solutions; and Matt Wisniewski, Director, Growth Capital Solutions.
Tiina Winnan is the company’s new Head of Operations.
William Blair, a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management, has appointed Jim Conniff as a managing director in the firm’s investment banking group.
Based in the firm’s Chicago office, Conniff joins the industrial growth products (IGP) team, bringing more than 25 years of experience focused on large industrial growth companies from a broad spectrum of specialised verticals, delivering advice and representation for clients on M&A and capital-raising assignments. Conniff also has extensive experience working with industrial clients owned by founders/entrepreneurs and private equity
UK based FinTech group, SPG, the owner and operator of Shieldpay and Paycast, has raised USD34 million (GBP25 million pounds) in a Series A round that includes strategic funding from Mastercard and Marqeta.
Other significant Investors in SPG include Elliott Management, CreditEase and Techstars.
To date SPG has processed over USD3 billion dollars of payments for its clients and experienced a surge in business during the pandemic that saw revenues grow by over 360 per cent in the last year.
Red Arts Capital (Red Arts), a middle-market, sector-focused private equity investment firm, has sold RAC MME Holdings, LLC to Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc for USD150 million in cash.
Red Arts Capital partnered with Prudential Capital Partners, Brightwood Capital Advisors, LLC and several family offices in 2019 to acquire MME, Inc from the Roswick and Greenstein families, who founded the Company in North Dakota in 1918. Legacy family ownership moved outside to elect Marlin Kling to his current leadership role as President in 2006, and he remained in his role after the Red Arts-led acquisition.
PineBridge Investments has held the final close of the PineBridge Preferred Participation Fund, with USD334.3 million in capital commitments.
The multi-manager private equity fund focuses exclusively on partnering with managers who are raising capital for their initial commingled institutional private equity funds.
Through the Preferred Participation strategy, PineBridge investors aim to deploy capital into high performing yet under-allocated segments of the private markets, enabling investors to diversify their private markets portfolios.
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