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LeapFrog Investments, a Profit with Purpose investment firm, has added Dr Biju Mohandas to its global healthcare team.
Mohandas will serve as Partner and Global Co-Lead for Healthcare, alongside partners Dr Felix Olale and Michael Fernandes, deepening LeapFrog’s distinctive investment expertise in this high-growth sector in emerging Asia and Africa.
LeapFrog’s healthcare companies include GoodLife, the largest pharmacy chain and healthcare provider in East Africa, and MedGenome, the leading South Asian genomic research and diagnostics company. Together, portfolio companies have reached millions of people with healthcare, protecting and enabling many vulnerable families and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Intriva Capital (Intriva), an independent alternative asset manager, has acquired a significant stake and supported a management buy-out in MoneyPlus Group (MoneyPlus), one of the UK’s largest providers of consumer debt advice.
Intriva will provide additional funding to further enhance the depth, breadth and value of services for MoneyPlus’ customers in a total investment program of GBP60 million.
MoneyPlus Group was founded in 2010 to help people who are struggling with their finances to find the right solutions to their problems. It has grown to become one of the UK’s largest providers of private debt advice and planning, working
Alpha Capital announced today that it has closed its USD230 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq Capital Market (Nasdaq), trading under the ticker symbol “ASPCU”.
The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) will use the funds to seek a business combination with a Latin American-focused technology company. Alpha announced pricing last Thursday.
There are over 20,000 technology companies in that region according to Crunchbase. While they have generally been funded by a growing local network of early-stage investors, later-stage capital has been far less available in Latin America, which has limited growth opportunities. Alpha aims to solve that dilemma by
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company Computer Design & Integration (CDI) has completed the acquisition of Kintyre Solutions (Kintyre), a system integrator with practices focused on cloud native application development, observability and investigation platforms, cloud optimisation, and various security engineering technologies.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2015, Kintyre provides product development, advanced configuration management, integration, data analytics, security engineering and other high value managed services. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the Company offers full end-to-end enterprise class cloud native development and optimisation to clients.
“Kintyre’s services offering is highly
NovaQuest Private Equity (NovaQuest) has made a strategic growth equity investment in Pro-ficiency, a provider of tech-enabled training and compliance solutions for clinical trial investigators and site staff.
Based in Durham, NC, Pro-ficiency provides innovative, virtual simulation training and HR compliance solutions for clinical trials, supported by original content creation and analytics services. Leading pharmaceutical companies engage Pro-ficiency to deploy customised, study-specific training solutions that improve learning retention and strengthen compliance among investigators and site staff. The company’s platform also provides sponsors and CROs with real-time analytics that help to predict and avoid study errors and protocol violations, ultimately reducing
Millar Cameron, the executive & professional search consultancy, has recruited a highly experienced team of head-hunters to service the power and infrastructure sectors in Africa.
The business, which has been identifying and developing senior leaders for clients in emerging markets since 2007, is well-known for its executive search work in the food, agriculture, international development, real estate, technology and telecoms sectors. With access to reliable energy critical for sustainable economic growth across Africa, the power sector is a natural addition to Millar Cameron’s areas of expertise.
Joining the company are Jayne Maxwell, Tim Beckh and Justin Wharton, who collectively bring
Grafine Partners has appointed Julie Fisher as Managing Director. Fisher, a former Managing Director and longtime investor relations expert at Providence Equity Partners, will focus primarily on business development and relationships with Grafine’s capital partners globally.
“I have had the pleasure of knowing Julie professionally for over 20 years, and always admired her ability to build substantive relationships throughout her career with endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and family offices,” says Elizabeth Weymouth, Founder & Managing Partner of Grafine. “She has a deep understanding of the intricacies, and an action-oriented approach to solving the needs of these investors.
Protests against racial violence and injustice around the world have put a spotlight on inequality, accelerating the demand for far-reaching social, political and corporate transformation. As a result, organisations are becoming more focused on the need to address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
As institutional investors turn to private markets, they are seeking to address systemic imbalances by increasing diversity within their organisations and boosting DEI with their investment portfolios. This includes implementing DEI manager programs and expanding due diligence frameworks to include diversity metrics.
Evidence supporting the positive impact DEI has on private market performance is mounting. Mercer’s white
Arma Partners has acted as financial advisor to Ardian on its acquisition of a majority stake in Jakala, in partnership with company founder Matteo de Brabant.
Jakala offers an integrated set of solutions that empower enterprises to better utilise technology and data to meet modern marketing and sales requirements across a variety of international markets, including the US, Brazil and Poland. Headquartered in Milan, Jakala was founded in 2000 as the first company in Italy to combine marketing and technology. Over time, the company has grown organically and inorganically, notably through its merger with Seri System in 2014 and subsequent
Macrobond Financial (Macrobond), a provider of economic and financial data, has appointed Howard Rees as Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately.
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