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Entia, a medical technology business, which recently announced a commercial partnership with Pfizer UK, has raised USD12 million in a funding round co-led by UK growth capital investor, BGF and growth fund manager, Parkwalk, with participation from existing seed investor Sussex Place Ventures.
The company will use the funds to launch Entia Liberty, a virtual oncology solution that allows patients to perform their own blood tests at home so remote healthcare teams can monitor and manage the haematological toxicity of cancer treatment. Over 50 per cent of systemic anti-cancer therapies cause haematological toxicity, management of which accounts for 8 per
Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has acquired Fluitron. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, Fluitron is a specialist in manufacturing industrial gas compression and dispensing equipment, including diaphragm compressors, pressure vessels, and other specialised products. Founded in 1976, Fluitron maintains operations in Ivyland, and sells to customers throughout the world, with its largest presences in the United States, Canada, India, China, Japan, and South Korea. Fluitron’s President, Anthony Chiccarine, and Vice President, Robert Chiccarine, will continue to lead Fluitron under Ara’s ownership.
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Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) Global Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) has launched A&M Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), a new proprietary technology that significantly increases the speed of deal identification.
Led by A&M DIG Executive Directors Tara Bilby, and Mishelle Weinerman, along with Chief Technology Officer Joey Baruch, the technology provides private equity firms with data, for better private market intelligence, from which to make informed deal identification decisions.
A&M DIG provides a technological deal identification solution, previously absent, to best meet growing sector demand. The technology mines siloed US public and government data through
BB Capital Investments-backed KidsKonnect has acquired Dutch childcare software company ROSA, its fifth bolt-on acquisition in 2021.
ROSA specialises in software for the administration of childcare and childminder. The transaction was preceded by KidsKonnect’s acquisitions of the Dutch childcare software specialists Social Schools, PortaBase and Doenkids and the Belgian Deona.
Investment company BB Capital took a majority interest in Konnect in 2019 from its participation in Flexkids, after which a merger between the two IT specialists resulted in KidsKonnect. In the Netherlands and Belgium, more than ten companies together now serve more than one million children in the age
ChargePoint Holdings, an electric vehicle (EV) charging network operating in North America and Europe, has closed its previously announced acquisition of European electric mobility platform has·to·be.
“Today we announce our accelerating leadership position in the European EV charging market with the closing of our acquisition of has·to·be, which combined with our acquisition of ViriCiti and our existing broad portfolio of charging infrastructure solutions position ChargePoint well in commercial and fleet segments. With these acquisitions, we grew our talent pool across and have state-of-the- art research and development centers across Europe,” says Pasquale Romano, CEO of ChargePoint. “These key milestones further
Ropes & Gray has advised TPG Capital, the private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, in its acquisition of a majority stake in Nintex from Thoma Bravo.
The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2021. Terms of the transaction, which was announced on 5 October, have not been disclosed.
TPG is a global alternative asset firm with more than USD108 billion of assets under management. Nintex, based in Bellevue, Washington, is the market leader in end-to-end process management and workflow automation provider. Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, plans to make a new equity
Alantra, an independent global mid-market investment banking and asset management firm, has added five senior professionals, increasing its specialised global offering in high-growth sectors.
The Group has reinforced its investment banking capabilities by incorporating a Real Estate & Hospitality team in Paris, and two Managing Directors in Frankfurt focused on Industrials and Technology.
Based in Paris, the new Real Estate & Hospitality sector team consists of five professionals, including three partners, each with between 15 and 20 years of experience in the sector. Working together since 2016 in the Capital Markets department of the Babylone Group, the three new
Vision Ridge Partners (Vision Ridge), an investor in sustainable real assets, has appointed Paul Luce, former Senior Investment Leader on Partners Group’s Private Infrastructure Investment Team, as a Managing Director.
A seasoned private equity investor across the sustainable real asset and infrastructure sectors, Luce will be responsible for sourcing and leading investments across key sustainable subsectors in energy and mobility. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he will report to Vision Ridge Co-Founder and Managing Partner Reuben Munger.
“We are thrilled to welcome Paul to the Vision Ridge team,” says Munger. “His significant experience and strong track record of investing across
UK law firm TLT has advised Detectortesters (No Climb Products Ltd), a specialist in the design and manufacture of fire detector testing equipment and a three-times winner of the Queen’s Award for enterprise, on its high-value buyout by Inflexion Private Equity Partners.
Independent, alternative asset investment management company, Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), has launched its second annual ESG Report.
The report highlights the progress of Pollen Street Capital against its ESG priorities and impact agenda over the last year as well as providing more detail on its approach to sustainability and future goals.
“There can be no denying the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on all our lives over the past year. Amongst the many changes seen as a result of the emergence of Covid-19 is a sharpened appetite for sustainability at local, national, and global levels,” says Lindsey McMurray,
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