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Private investment firm Quilvest Capital Partners (Quilvest), has made a substantial growth investment in UrgentMED, an independent network of urgent care clinics in Southern California.
Quilvest is partnering with UrgentMED’s co-founders, Dr Jacob Rastegar, Dr Morris Kokhab and Dr Pejman Bolourian, who will each remain significant shareholders and will continue to lead the business going forward.
The InsuResilience Investment Fund (IIF) managed by impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance Ltd (BlueOrchard) is investing up to USD6.7 million in Probus Insurance Broker Private Limited (Probus), a retail insurtech firm based in India.
Probus offers climate insurance coverage in India, a country highly exposed to various climate risks. The firm targets the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, where insurance penetration is currently very low. Probus has comprehensive, tailor-made product offering with more than 80 per cent of its reach in the financially weakest cities of the country and rural areas.
Precisely, a global specialist in data integrity software, backed by Clearlake Capital Group,de and TA Associates, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atlanta-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider CEDAR CX Technologies.
The acquisition strengthens the opportunity for Precisely customers to share capabilities across CEDAR CX and the EngageOne portfolio, including unified digital customer experiences, document composition, archiving, billing, and payments.
Kainos Capital, a food and consumer-focused private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company good2grow to Wind Point Partners.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, good2grow is a branded kids’ beverage company that sells clean label, ready-to-drink fruit juice, fortified water and organic flavored milk. Kainos partnered with the business, which was previously founder-owned, in 2018.
Crypto venture capital fund Lemniscap has led a USD4.4 million seed funding round in JellyFi, a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that will soon enable uncollateralised crypto loans.
ParaFi Capital, Tioga Capital, White Star Capital, DeFiance Capital, True Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Genesis, Divergence Ventures, AngelDAO and several angel investors also participated in the round. The investment will be used to support JellyFi’s growth through R&D, key hires, and performing multiple audits.
Pollen Street Capital, an independent, alternative investment management company focused on the financial and business services sectors, has made a strategic growth investment in Blue Media SA, an online payments provider in Poland.
Blue Media is offers a range of payments and payment-related services to businesses and consumers via the Blue Media and Autopay brands. This year the business expects to process over EUR6 billion of payments, with over 33,000 active eCommerce merchants and is approaching 1 million users of the Autopay app.
Amundi, a European leader in responsible investment with over EUR800 billion in assets managed with an ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) approach, has launched a new social and climate action plan through to 2025.
With the ambition of further strengthening its commitments, this plan sets out objectives for both savings and investment solutions for clients and Amundi’s engagement policy with companies. ESG objectives will be included in the remuneration of its senior executives. Amundi will also present its climate strategy to its shareholders.
This plan is part of the Crédit Agricole Group’s Societal Project, which is built around three priorities: climate,
Existing investor Valor Siren Ventures has led a USD7 million funding round in Datasembly, a provider of real-time product pricing, promotions, and assortment data for retailers and CPG brands.
Other previous investors including Craft Ventures, Twenty 5 Twenty, Evan Brown and Launch Capital also participated.
As part of the deal, Richard Tait, Partner at Valor Siren Ventures and Lee Insigna, COO of Datasembly Added to Board of Directors have joined the Board of Directors.
Scale Venture Partners has led a USD50 million Series B investment round in healthcare technology company Robin. With the new investment, Robin will expand its service into new markets, as well as invest in its engineering, product, and sales teams to further deliver value for physicians nationwide.
Khosla Ventures also participated in the funding round along with existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Social Leverage, Meridian Street Capital, and IA Ventures.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has promoted Partner Jeffrey Gordon to Managing Partner and Co-Fund Manager of the Riverside Strategic Capital Fund (RSCF).
Gordon will work alongside Riverside Managing Partner George Cole to co-manage the fund. RSCF provides non-control capital solutions to sponsors and entrepreneurs, allowing them to retain control of all aspects of their business, including minority ownership of companies previously owned by other Riverside funds.
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