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By Purva Aggarwal – Warburg Pincus has invested USD110 million into a Series C round for New York-based healthcare tech company Aetion.
This round is the latest in a string of similar investments within the health tech space for Warburg Pincus. The global growth equity PE group has poured in excess of USD12 billion and USD22 billion to date into health care and technology companies respectively, including Alignment Healthcare, Experity, Intelligent Medical Objects, Modernizing Medicine, and Outset Medical.
B Capital and Foresite Capital, as well as existing supporters New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flare Capital Partners joined the fundraise,
Global early-stage venture capital firm Antler has closed its first Nordic fund, which was oversubscribed at USD36 million. Participants include Draper Esprit, Kistefos, the Danish state fund Vækstfonden, and the Norwegian state fund Investinor.
The Antler Nordic fund will continue to invest in innovative startups in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, with strong and complementary co-founding teams, validated business models and global potential. Antler also recently announced that its investment strategy in Denmark would focus on backing green, sustainable companies.
Oscar Westergård, Partner at Antler Nordics, explains: “We’re experiencing rapid growth. Since the start, we’ve invested in over 60 companies across
Azentio Software (Azentio), a Singapore-headquartered software products business owned by Funds advised by Apax, has appointed Tony Kinnear to the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately.
Money Alive, a regulatory technology business based in Bedford, is set for further growth following a GBP749,000 financial investment from Foresight Group (Foresight) using equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) as part of a GBP1 million funding round together with a number of private investors.
Founded by CEO Andy Kirby, Money Alive launched its first commercial product in 2018. Its proprietary video engagement platform is licensed to financial advisers, product providers and employee benefit consultants to provide their clients, policy holders and members with engaging, accredited and impartial information using Money Alive’s interactive video experiences. The firm
BGF – the UK & Ireland’s most active investor – has promoted Andy Gregory, current Head of Investments, UK & Ireland, to Chief Investment Officer (CIO).
Gregory has been with BGF since 2011, joining as regional director for the North of England. In his new role, he will oversee investment activity and portfolio management across all business areas including growth, earlier-stage and quoted. He sits on the board of BGF and will report into Stephen Welton, executive chairman at BGF.
Before BGF, Gregory held senior roles in the private equity industry, including LivingBridge and Bridgepoint.
In addition, Richard Taylor, who
Eurazeo is to sell 49 per cent of its stake in Trader Interactive, a provider of online advertising & marketing solutions to the powersports, recreational vehicle, commercial truck & equipment industries based in Virginia (USA), to carsales an online automotive advertising platform in Australia with a growing presence in Latin America and Asia.
Internationally, carsales operates several marketplaces across both the automotive and specialty vehicle segments with leading properties such as demotores.com in Argentina and EnCar in South Korea.
Under this agreement, Trader Interactive is valued at USD1.625 billion corresponding to 26.5-times CY 2020 Adjusted EBITDA. With this operation,
The management of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues is moving up the board agenda for private equity, however climate risk exposure requires greater scrutiny, according to a new survey released by PwC.
The Private Equity Responsible Investment Survey 2021 draws upon the views of 209 respondents from 35 countries and territories, including 198 PE houses.
It finds that, compared with 2019, there is a shift from 35 per cent to 56 per cent of respondents stating that ESG features in board meetings more than once a year.
ESG factors are now routinely evaluated by private equity firms
Huma Therapeutics Limited has completed its latest funding round with financing of approximately USD130 million. The investment will scale Huma’s modular platform which can power digital ‘hospitals at home’ nationally, and support the pharmaceutical and research industries to run the largest ever decentralized clinical trials.
Huma’s platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers and real-world data to advance proactive care and research.
Leaps by Bayer and Hitachi Ventures led the Series C funding round, which also saw new strategic and financial investors become shareholders. Samsung Next, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Unilever Ventures and HAT Technology & Innovation Fund by
Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), an entrepreneur-centric growth equity firm exclusively focused on internet, software, and information services companies, has made a significant investment in LiveBarn, a subscription-based streaming service for amateur and youth sports.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
LiveBarn provides Live & On-Demand broadcasting of amateur and youth sporting events so athletes, coaches, and fans never miss a moment of the game. Through its cutting-edge, patented technology and camera system, LiveBarn has grown 40 per cent year over year and now broadcasts from over 1,000 sports venues across the United States and Canada, including
The value-based private equity arm of The Riverside Company has acquired Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc (dba SCRAM Systems), a provider of technology-enabled monitoring solutions and groundbreaking offender management software for state and local judicial systems and corrections departments.
SCRAM Systems will be combined with Riverside’s LMG Holdings, Inc (LMG) platform, with its flagship brand LifeSafer, a leading provider of ignition interlock devices used to help prevent drink-driving.
Founded in 1997, SCRAM Systems provides an extensive portfolio of continuous and intermittent alcohol- and location-monitoring technologies used by state, county and local criminal-justice agencies. The company’s offerings fulfil a dual mission of
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