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HomeDoctor, a Warsaw and Amsterdam-based digital healthcare provider has announced a EUR3.7m Series A funding round led by Cogito Capital Partners with participation from the Company’s founders. HomeDoctor, founded in 2016, is a leader in the Polish market in providing online medical consultations and delivery of healthcare services to patients’ homes. The Company is operating as a b2b2c and a b2c medical services platform that enables delivery of both, online and phone consultations (telemedicine channel) and booking a doctor appointment (home visit).
Home Doctor is also a key partner for largest medical centres and insurers in Poland. HomeDoctor developed an effective
ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has named Steve Tudge as non-executive Chair. He will be taking over from Ken Landsberg on his retirement.
Landsberg has been non-executive Chair for the last six years, and his retirement sees Steve Tudge transition from Managing Partner.
Landsberg has played an active role in guiding ECI’s development since the mid 1980’s and its successful investment and support of over 260 companies including past investments such as Guardian IT, Highway Services, NCC, Bloomsbury Publishing, National Express, Nuaire, Hoseseasons and Games Workshop. As a result of his track record and leadership at ECI
A company backed by Permira funds has led a Series F round of USD92million in Seismic, a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform provider.
In addition to its capital investment, the Permira funds have also made a secondary investment, becoming Seismic’s largest shareholder. This round brings the total raised by Seismic to around USD270 million to-date and values the company at close to USD1.6 billion.
“Permira’s investment in Seismic is a tremendous testament to Seismic’s market opportunity, team, and overall momentum. Permira’s experience investing in leading enterprise software companies will help us accelerate Seismic platform innovations, international expansion, and M&A
Two energy industry entrepreneurs have launched a family investment company which will support fledgling technology enterprises with development capital and decades of experience gained building international businesses.Doug Duguid and Michael Buchan have formed Indigo 7 Ventures (I7V) which will have a focus on start-up businesses specialising in environmental sustainability and energy transition.
The pair have created a multi-million pound fund which will invest upwards of six figure sums in a small stable of innovative companies working in the renewables sector.
Duguid was Chief Executive Officer and Michael Buchan Chief Financial Officer of EnerMech, which they founded in Aberdeen
IntegriDATA, a FinTech software vendor, has launched Wire Chains, a revolutionary new feature that expedites dependent wire processing for its CashWire Payment System (CashWire). Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Nordic Capital has held the final close of Nordic Capital Fund X (Fund X) at EUR6.1 billion (including GP commitment of 6.5 per cent). The Fund, launched in April 2020, was oversubscribed at its hard cap, and was raised in less than six months via a remote capital raise without holding any face-to-face meetings.
Hg, a European investor in software and tech-enabled services businesses, is to make a significant long-term equity investment in Hyperion Insurance Group Limited (Hyperion), an international insurance intermediary, in a deal that values the business at an enterprise value of around USD5 billion. In conjunction with an additional debt raise and existing resources, the investment will provide Hyperion with up to USD1.5illion to accelerate its growth with both selective acquisitions and investments in data and technology.
Hg will join Hyperion as an aligned, long-term, growth partner alongside General Atlantic, which invested in Hyperion in 2013, and CDPQ, which invested in
Independent infrastructure investment manager Ancala Partners (Ancala), on behalf of its managed funds, has sold its majority interest in Fore Freedom for an undisclosed sum to funds managed by HRL Morrison & Co. Fore Freedom is an independent developer, owner and operator of fibre networks across the Netherlands.
Ancala acquired a majority interest in Fore Freedom and its related entities in September 2018 and through a buy-and-build strategy has helped transform the business into a leading fibre network developer, owner and operator in over 80 business parks across the Netherlands. Fore Freedom provides essential broadband connectivity to businesses via high-speed,
Chicago-based private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), has sold Prototek Holdings (Prototek), a rapid prototyping service provider, to Snow Phipps, a middle-market private equity firm.Founded in 1987, Prototek manufactures CNC machined and fabricated parts and components across both metal and plastic materials with a specialty in difficult and complex parts. Prototek serves a diverse customer base across a variety of end markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, robotics, electronics, consumer, telecommunications, and general industrial. Based outside of Boston with additional facilities in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley, the Company conforms to a variety of rigorous customer and industry standards and holds
Cowen Inc has appointed Kenneth Garnett as a Managing Director in the Special Situations Group in the firm’s Investment Banking.Garnett, who will be based in New York and report to Lorie Beers, Cowen Managing Director and Head, Special Situations & Restructuring, brings over two decades of experience in special situation private investing, restructuring investment banking and turnaround consulting.
“We are very happy to have Ken Garnett join Cowen’s Special Situations and Restructuring team. His professional background, industry knowledge and relationships, especially around complex investments, restructurings and M&A transactions, will give our clients a key advantage across asset classes and
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