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Relief Therapeutics Holding (Relief), a biopharmaceutical company seeking to provide patients therapeutic relief from serious diseases with high unmet need, has closed a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of AdVita Lifescience (AdVita), a Germany-based, privately held pharmaceutical company developing effective products and strategies to improve the treatment and diagnosis of rare lung diseases.
With the acquisition, Relief has gained additional pending intellectual property rights that may cover RLF-100TM inhaled formulation specifications and the potential application of inhaled aviptadil for the treatment of lung diseases such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pulmonary sarcoidosis and checkpoint inhibitor-induced pneumonitis (CIP).
Pollen Street Capital and DBAY Advisors have confirmed that the previously-announced recommended offer for Proactis Holdings Plc (Proactis) has been accepted by a majority of shareholders, and as a result the Company has now been acquired by Cafe Bidco Limited and will be de-listed from the AIM sub-market of the London Stock Exchange.
OMX Ventures, a life sciences venture capital firm investing in companies that operate at the intersection of biology, big data, and engineering, has appointed Swetha Murali, PhD, as a Senior Associate based in Boston.
Working closely with the OMX Ventures partners, Murali will be involved in all aspects of the OMX Ventures investment process from deal sourcing and diligence to investment monitoring at the board level. She will also be instrumental to the team’s activities in new company creation, especially through the application of emerging technologies that can address historically overlooked or under-appreciated areas of biology.
Murali joins OMX with
NewQuest Capital Partners (NewQuest), a dedicated secondary private equity platform focused on the Asia-Pacific region, has acquired a minority interest in Kids Clinic India Private Limited, operator of the Cloudnine chain of hospitals across India.
The stake has been acquired through a combination of a primary investment and acquisition of a secondary stake from existing investors and other shareholders.
Cloudnine is India’s premium birthing centre for maternal, childcare and fertility care. The Company is headquartered in Bengaluru with 16 facilities spread across in Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Panchkula, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune.
Amit Gupta, Partner and Head of India and Southeast
Hedgehog Markets, a decentralised prediction markets platform built on the Solana blockchain, has raised USD3.5 million in a seed funding round.
Investors include prominent venture and digital asset firms Reciprocal Ventures, Republic Labs, Alameda Research, Divergence Ventures, MGNR, and Manna. Hedgehog also received a grant from the Solana Foundation.
Hedgehog will use the new funding to propel its mainnet launch (the platform is currently in open beta), bring on additional key talent, and continue reaching development milestones. Not only will Hedgehog have evolved from idea to live product in less than a year, but it will also be the first
Galway Sustainable Capital (GSC) has entered into a new, broad-based funding partnership with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, (Oaktree).
Under the terms of the deal, GSC secured a minority equity investment and closed a new, multi-year, multi-tranche credit facility with Oaktree. GSC is private equity backed by lead investor Cordillera Investment Partners. GSC was founded in 2020 by three experienced ESG professionals who collectively bring over 50 years of expertise in structured finance, sustainable infrastructure, and yield-oriented investments. GSC provides flexible, full stack debt and equity capital solutions to support companies, developers and sponsors that are accelerating the transition
Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity firms, is to sell a majority stake in Bruneau to TowerBrook Capital Partners.
The transaction remains subject to regulatory approval and consultation with employee representative bodies.
Bruneau is an online distributor of office furniture and supplies in Europe. Founded over 65 years ago, the Group offers a wide range of products for all professionals, with over 25,000 office items available for delivery within 24 hours and over 100,000 items in total. In recent years, Bruneau has dynamically extended and consolidated its European reach. Now actively present in six countries
Blackstone has appointed Stevi Petrelli as Head of Blackstone Innovations Investments (BXI Investments) where she will be responsible for overseeing the firm’s internal investments in early-stage PropTech, Enterprise Tech, Cybersecurity and FinTech companies.
Petrelli has joined as a Managing Director and, in this newly created role, will work across Blackstone’s Technology & Innovations, Growth, Real Estate, Private Wealth Solutions and Finance businesses to drive these investments, helping accelerate innovation across the firm.
BXI Investments invests in early-stage companies that are well-positioned to benefit from a deeper relationship with Blackstone’s many businesses, portfolio companies and extensive global network. Previous investments include
Avedon Capital Partners is to support staffing agency Pro Industry in its ambitious growth path.
Together with its new partner Avedon, Pro Industry aims to accelerate its organic growth by opening new locations in The Netherlands and Belgium and investing in digitization. The partnership will take place subject to the approval of the competition authorities.
Pro Industry focuses on staffing scarce operator profiles to industrial and manufacturing customers in various end verticals, amongst others pharma, food processing and chemical. The company has over last decade developed in-depth knowledge of its customers’ end-markets and is able to effectively find and
Aquila Capital and Axpo, a Swiss renewable energy producer and specialist in wind and solar energy trading, have agreed on a series of power purchase agreements (PPA) and representation services for a solar PV portfolio located in Portugal.
Under these PPAs, Axpo Iberia is committed to provide representation services for the solar PV plants and will purchase 100 per cent renewable energy from Aquila Capital from the four assets of the portfolio.
With the recent signing of the last PPA, Aquila Capital secures this series of long-term power purchase agreements with Axpo, which have a competitive price structure and
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