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Mednow Inc, a Canadian on-demand virtual pharmacy, has closed a CAD500,000 investment in Doko Medical (Doko Medical) by way of convertible debenture (the Doko Investment), for a 2.8 per cent equity interest at a CAD17.5 million pre-money valuation. Doko Medical is a virtual healthcare provider operating across the US. Currently servicing 38 states, Doko Medical has over 100 physicians and health care workers engaged over its platform, which specialises in urgent care, mental health and erectile dysfunction. Doko Medical’s platform is used daily by physicians and patients, and patients can order prescriptions and send them directly to a pharmacy of
Global investment firm KKR is to acquire a minority stake in Southeast Asian private educator, Taylor’s Education Group’ (TEG) Taylor’s Schools. Taylor’s Schools owns and operates six international schools – Garden International School, Nexus International School Singapore, Nexus International School Malaysia, Australian International School Malaysia, Taylor’s International School Kuala Lumpur, and Taylor’s International School Puchong.  Focused on the K-12 education system, Taylor’s Schools seeks to empower its learners to become productive leaders in the global community through innovative and creative teaching and learning methods, preparing them for future opportunities. Taylor’s Schools is a member of TEG, a leading private education
Harvest Builders, a Calgary-based growth platform and venture studio, has launched Harvest Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm investing in breakthrough financial technology businesses.  Harvest Ventures’ inaugural fund is one of the largest sole General Partner funds in the world at CAD14 million, and is supported by institutional investor ATB Financial. Harvest Venture Partners leads investments in pre-scale founding teams and provides an unparalleled set of resources and partnerships to rapidly accelerate market adoption and distribution. Unique amongst these is providing founders with the competitive advantage of anchor business partnerships. Harvest’s early partnerships include Canadian FinTech Neo Financial,
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions adviser for privately held businesses, has advised Bogey Free LLC (dba Rackmount Solutions) to Baymark Partners. The acquisition closed on 15 November, 2021. Located in Plano, Texas, Rackmount Solutions (Rackmount) provides off-the-shelf, custom, and niche server racks, server cabinets, wall mounts, portable cooling solutions, outdoor enclosures, batteries, integrated AC and DC power system solutions, rack accessories and power, along with installation and maintenance services over the phone and via the internet. Rackmount serves any customer needing computer system and network peripherals. The resulting customer markets are therefore a function of the level of need
Gardner Capital, a private equity firm and alternative investment platform specialising in multifamily housing and renewable energy development and investment, is partnering with Kiva through Gardner Capital’s GCRE Upward Mobility Fund to accelerate minority-led small business access to finance in Texas. The partnership will initially focus on supporting BIPOC small business owners in the Dallas and Houston markets, and provide a revolving fund to match loans raised on Kiva’s crowd-funding platform – both increasing the total funding available and accelerating the speed of funding loans for entrepreneurs. “We are truly thankful for the opportunity to begin our partnership with Kiva
BlueTriton Brands, a specialist in natural spring water, has completed the acquisition of certain assets of Saratoga Spring Water Company (SSWC), a producer of premium domestic spring water based in Saratoga Springs, New York. SSWC is sold throughout the United States and delivers spring water products in premium packaging to customers in the hospitality and retail channels.   “We are thrilled to welcome Saratoga Spring Water Company’s products into the BlueTriton family,” says Tony W Lee, Managing Partner of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC and a member of the Board of Directors of BlueTriton. “As a leader in the premium
Allorion Therapeutics, a company focused on next-generation precision medicine for oncology and autoimmune disease, has completed a USD40 million Series A financing.  This financing round is led by Qiming Venture Partners and participated by IDG Capital, Octagon Capital, Firstred Capital, and Elikon Venture. Existing investors – TF Capital and Med-Fine Capital – continued to support in this round. The proceeds will be used to support Allorion’s preclinical projects, IND-enabling studies and IND applications of two drug candidates in China and the United States. Allorion will also increase its investment in its platform technologies in the systematic screen for allosteric inhibitors and synthetic
Ocorian, a financial services group and provider of fund, corporate, capital markets and private client services has appointed Michelle Merola as Business Development Director. Ocorian has more than 25 years’ experience in the employee benefits sector. The team provide tailor-made solutions in employee participation for a large portfolio of FTSE 100, 250, 350 and AIM-listed companies, multinational corporations, leading financial institutions, and smaller, often private equity-backed private companies. Merola will work closely with Ocorian’s existing employee incentive plan clients to ensure service excellence and will proactively develop its client book within private equity. She will also further extend Ocorian’s scope
Global law firm White & Case LLP has promoted 40 lawyers to counsel and 28 lawyers to local partner. The moves include even private equity practitioners.
Varagon Capital Partners is serving as Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger and Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support Marlin Equity Partners’ acquisition of ImagineSoftware. ImagineSoftware is a provider of medical billing automation and revenue cycle management to physician practices, outsourced medical billing companies, and health systems.  For over 20 years, Imagine has provided technology solutions that reduce the lifecycle of claims, streamline denial management, and improve profitability.

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