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Middle-market private investment firm Comvest Partners’ direct lending platform, Comvest Credit Partners, has held the final close of its latest flagship fund, Comvest Credit Partners V (CCP V), with over USD1.3 billion of equity commitments.
The fund has also secured credit facilities to increase its available capital.
To date, CCP V together with parallel funds and separately managed accounts, has provided credit to more than 35 new and existing portfolio companies.
Robert O’Sullivan, Managing Partner of Comvest Credit Partners, says: “We are pleased to mark the close of CCP V and are grateful for the strong support of both our
Endeavour Vision has closed Endeavour Medtech Growth II (EMG II) at USD375 million in capital commitments. The fund will pursue the same strategy as its predecessor: to support growth-stage medtech and digital health innovations that advance the standard of care and bring efficiencies to healthcare systems.
Venture capital and growth equity firm Endeavour Vision has a 20-year history of investing in growth-stage medtech and digital health companies in Europe and the US. Here Private Equity Wire asks Bernard Vogel, co-founder and managing partner, and Meret Gaugler (pictured, above-right, with Vogel), head of investment strategy, for their thoughts on the innovations and key drivers that are shaping the sector’s future.
European private equity deal activity value and volume increased to quarterly records spurred by increasing middle-market and micro-cap activity, respectively, according to PitchBook’s newly released Q1 2021 European Private Equity Breakdown report.
Deal value and volume both accelerated to quarterly records supported by increased middle-market activity (deals sized between EUR100 million and EUR500 million) and rising micro-cap transactions – deals sized under EUR25 million.
The report showed that 1,936 transactions closed in the first quarter for a total of EUR158.8 billion, which represents a year-on-year increase of 79.9 per cent and 28.5 per cent, respectively.
Revival in the leveraged
RM Funds, the Investment Manager of the listed specialist in social and environmental infrastructure, RM Secured Direct Lending (RMDL), has provided a bilateral GBP13 million senior secured three-year term loan facility to Athena Healthcare Group (AHG).
The financing will support AHG in funding the construction of an institutional-grade purpose built 205 bedrooms care village in Lytham, England. The aged care scheme is expected to reach completion and start trading by early Q2 2022. This is RM Funds’ second transaction with AHG, having previously completed on a GBP7.8 million construction facility in Q4 2020. RM Funds is focused on providing
Perception Point, a specialist email and collaboration security company, offering fast interception of content-based attacks as a service, has raised USD28 million in Series B funding, bringing the total funding to USD48 million.
The new funding round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners and joined by global investor NGP Capital along with existing investors Pitango Venture Capital and State of Mind Ventures (SOMV). Yoram Oron and Atad Peled from Red Dot Capital Partners, and Bo Ilsoe from NGP Capital will be joining the company’s board of directors. Funds from this round will be used to fuel rapid growth,
Novo Holdings has joined the USD80 million Series C financing in Halodoc, an Indonesia-based healthtech platform, which was led by PT Astra Digital Internasional, a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk (Astra) and joined by existing and new investors including Temasek, Telkomsel’s TMI, Acrew Diversify Capital Fund, Bangkok Bank,UOB Venture Management, Singtel Innov8, BliBli, Allianz X, and Openspace Ventures.
This is the first investment by the Novo Holdings Asian life sciences team in Singapore following set up in 2020.
Founded in 2016, Halodoc is a digital healthcare platform that includes a mobile app and website allowing customers across Indonesia
Funds managed by leading global investment firm KKR will be joining long-time partner, Oak Hill Capital, and management as investors in MetroNet. As part of the transaction, Oak Hill and KKR will each make new investments to help accelerate MetroNet’s growth in building and connecting fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) data, television, and telephone services to homes and businesses. This year, MetroNet launched services in its ninth state as it continues to expand its fibre footprint to local communities across the country.
“We value our long-standing partnership with Oak Hill and are proud to welcome our new investors at KKR,” says John Cinelli,
Antarctica Capital, an international private equity firm has formed EarthDaily Analytics (EarthDaily), an integrated data processing and analytics company offering advanced digital products and analytics for delivery to the world’s rapidly expanding global agricultural industry.
EarthDaily Analytics utilises satellites to collect vast amounts of raw imagery of the Earth’s surface. Its market leading, proprietary cloud-based data processing software automatically transforms that raw imagery into scientific grade analytics-ready, calibrated image products and analytics. The company’s digital agriculture platform, Geosys, provides customer-facing tools that deliver actionable proprietary information and insights to agriculture businesses to manage risk and improve profitability. EarthDaily’s technology solutions
Pemberton, a European private debt manager transforming traditional credit markets, backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group PLC, has provided facilities to support the full refinancing of Elatec, a technology company providing global RFID technology solutions, backed by private equity firm Summit Partners.
Elatec is a leading global provider of highly-configurable RFID (radio frequency identification) technology solutions used in a variety of end-markets and industry applications, including printing, physical access control, computing, manufacturing and the Internet of Things (IoT). The company designs and manufactures both contact (SmartCard) and close proximity contactless (NFC, RFID, Bluetooth) readers/writers that
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