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Holland & Knight has expanded its Private Equity Team with the addition of Alvin Johnson as partner in the firm’s Atlanta office.
Johnson represents private equity firms and the world’s leading companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions. He was previously an associate with DLA Piper.
“Alvin’s significant experience advising private equity clients and strong focus on client service are a perfect fit for our corporate and private equity practices,” says David Barkus, co-head of Holland & Knight’s Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group and head of the firm’s Private Equity Team. “We are fortunate that
HIG Growth Partners (HIG Growth), the growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has promoted Managing Director Scott Hilleboe to Co-Head of HIG Growth to work alongside Ross Hiatt who has been hired as a Managing Director and Co-Head.
Both will be based in San Francisco and will lead the day-to-day investment activities of HIG Growth. They succeed John Black who will remain with HIG Growth as a Senior Advisor.
Hilleboe has almost two decades of experience investing in venture capital and private equity transactions, and focuses on SaaS software, cybersecurity, marketplaces, consumer tech, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hard
Full Sail IP Partners, an acquirer of leading brands, has acquired the Odwalla brand from the Coca-Cola Company.
Odwalla, a popular food and beverage brand, was founded in Santa Cruz, California in 1980 by three jazz musicians with a desire to nourish people everywhere, respect our planet, protect the soil, and create products good for the soul. Over the past 40 years, Odwalla has delivered delicious fruit juices, smoothies, and energy bars to consumers with fresh, plant-based ingredients. Its iconic brand represents, to countless consumers, nurturing food for the whole body.
“We’re thrilled that Odwalla, with its long history of
FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor in innovative enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing companies, has promoted Richard Liu to partner.
Since joining FTV in 2014, Liu has played an integral role in expanding the firm’s successful enterprise technology and tech-enabled services practice.
With investing experience spanning security and compliance, vertical software, tech-enabled services and marketplaces, Liu has been instrumental in a number of notable investments at FTV. He is currently a board director at FTV portfolio companies A-LIGN, Security Compass and Sysnet, and actively involved with several other FTV investments, including Egress,
Colizey, an online French marketplace dedicated to sports goods, has secured EUR8 million in a Series A funding round, led by Cathay Innovation, which brings together historic investors Aglaé Ventures, Cassius Family and Tony Parker, as well as new investors including Teddy Riner.
Colizey previously raised EUR2.5 million in its seed round in May 2020.
In a European market where the supply of sporting goods remains highly fragmented, Colizey is reinventing the online shopping experience by connecting its partner stores (brands, stores and e-retailers) with consumers on a single platform. With 110 partners, the marketplace currently lists more than
Peach Finance (Peach), a modern SaaS-based loan servicing platform, has raised USD20 million in a Series A funding round led by Canapi Ventures with participation from existing and new investors, SciFi VC, Caffeinated Capital, Nyca Partners and Moore Specialty Credit.
The funding will support Peach’s continued expansion within the growing loan management and servicing market, including through new credit product launches, customer growth initiatives and increased hiring.
Peach is the first all-in-one SaaS platform addressing the full range of evolving needs of fintech companies and established financial institutions like banks and credit unions through its loan management, servicing and Compliance
BriteCore, a provider of next-generation core platforms for P&C insurers, has appointed Ray Villeneuve as CEO and completed a USD20 million Series C financing.
The two strategic milestones move to further accelerate BriteCore’s growth and momentum as a leading provider of modern cloud-based core systems software for property and casualty (P&C) insurers.
Villeneuve has been leading tech companies for the past two decades. His executive experience includes launching and scaling up tech organisations in enterprise SaaS, machine learning, and artificial intelligence domains. These include Quartic.ai, Reflektion, Virtana (Virtual Instruments), Skytree, Riverbed, and NetApp. He has refined strategies, built successful teams,
Amulet Capital Partners (Amulet), a middle-market private equity investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, focused exclusively on the healthcare sector, has closed its second fund, Amulet Capital Partners II. The Fund, executed as a mostly virtual process, was oversubscribed and closed with in excess of USD650 million in capital commitments, exceeding the Fund’s target of USD500 million.
The firm’s thematic approach to healthcare investing, focusing on complex and advantaged situations as well as a consistent approach to driving value post-acquisition, attracted strong support from new and existing investors.
The Fund has already completed two investments, US Fertility, the largest physician
European healthcare platform accuRx has closed a GBP27.5 million Series B funding round to transform communication across healthcare systems worldwide.
The financing round was led by Lakestar with participation from British Patient Capital, Latitude VS (sister fund to London-based seed investor LocalGlobe), Atomico, Trusted Insight and Encore Capital. The newly raised funds will facilitate the growth of the accuRx team, enhancing its offering to GP practices and building products that will enable expansion into secondary care.
Communications amongst those involved in a patient’s care is often fragmented and felt by patients in almost every health system across the globe.
As part of its initiative to digitalise alternative asset servicing, Northern Trust has launched an artificial intelligence-powered solution to extract unstructured investment data from alternative asset documents and make it accessible and actionable for asset owner clients.
Built in collaboration with Microsoft Azure Applied AI Services, which accelerate time to value for enterprises building AI solutions, and business and consulting firm Neudesic, the proprietary solution transforms crucial information such as capital call notices, cash and stock distribution notices, and capital account statements from a variety of unstructured formats into digital, actionable insights for investment teams.
“The integration of unstructured
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