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The Healthcare Private Equity Association (HCPEA), a non-profit trade association focused on supporting the healthcare private equity community, has appointed Diane Daych, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Granite Growth Health Partners, as Chair, effective 1 July, 2020. Daych assumes the role from Dr Terry Woodward, Managing Director at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’).
Over the coming year, Daych will lead the organisation’s strategic direction and work with member firms to navigate the changing needs of the healthcare ecosystem. HCPEA, founded in 2010, is comprised of one of the world’s largest portfolios of privately held healthcare-related businesses, representative of services, products,
Restream, a multi-platform live streaming solution, has raised USD50 million in Series A financing led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners. In addition, Restream is launching Restream Studio, a broadcasting production centre that makes live streaming across social platforms as easy as hosting a Zoom call. Restream will use the new capital to expand the company’s product offerings and continue to grow its global footprint, following 300 percent growth since January. Paul Levine, Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures, and Teddie Wardi, Managing Director at Insight Partners, will also join Restream’s board of directors.
Restream Studio enables businesses to broadcast live content
Following the news of our four new hires earlier this year, Talis Capital has made three key promotions within its investment team. Tom Williams has been promoted to Partner, with Beatrice Aliprandi and Kirill Tasilov both taking the role of Principal. Over the past 12 months, Talis Capital completed 17 investments and has welcomed new companies to our portfolio like Construyo, Bleach London and DayDayCook where we led the respective seed, Series A and Series C rounds, as well as later-stage companies like Carta. We’ve also supported the growth of existing portfolio companies like Onfido, Darktrace, Pricefx, Plum Guide, Eporta and
Unicorn VC deal value grew to EUR3.1 billion in H1 2020, and is on pace to surpass the EUR5.7 billion record set in 2019, according to PitchBook’s latest VC report, as companies like Deliveroo and N26 both closed substantial rounds in the first six months of the year.
UK private equity manager Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested GBP1.5 million in Gen inCode, a genetic testing business specialising in the risk assessment and prediction of cardiovascular disease.
Gen inCode raised in total GBP3.4 million, where Maven invested alongside another institutional investor and existing private shareholders.
Gen inCode has developed a range of patented DNA risk assessment products which utilise AI, bioinformatics and a globally recognised clinical evidence base to provide predictive analysis of a patient’s health risk. Proprietary algorithms are used to predict the probability of adverse events, resulting in a comprehensive risk evaluation that provides key insights
MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on the business services and consumer sectors, has acquired Music Reports, an independent provider of music rights data, administration, and management services, from ABRY Partners and the company’s co-founders, Ronald Gertz and Douglas Brainin. MidOcean’s investment will be used to accelerate Music Reports’ growth, both through organic product initiatives, as well as potential acquisitions. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Music Reports leverages its proprietary and continuously updated music and cue sheet databases, Songdex and Cuetrak, to deliver a full technology-enabled platform of advanced rights, payments, and royalty solutions
Accendo Capital has appointed Michael Rosenlew as Senior Adviser to the Fund. Rosenlew has extensive international investment experience from his long and successful career at IK Investment Partners as well as previous Board experience at Caverion (Chairman), Pöyry and Stockmann. Rosenlew is currently the Chairman of the Board of Hartwall Capital.
Henri Österlund, Founding Partner of Accendo Capital says: “It is a real pleasure to have Michael on board both as Senior Advisor and as a significant investor in the Fund. Michael has been instrumental in transforming the Nordic investment industry and I am very pleased he shares our excitement for
Private investment firm GI Partners has completed the previously announced acquisition of Clinical Ink, a global clinical trial technology company.Headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania, Clinical Ink offers data certainty from source to submission during clinical trials. The company’s Lumenis eSource clinical technology is a suite of solutions for capturing and integrating clinical trial electronic study data from sites, clinicians, and patients in real time. Through configurable direct data capture (DDC), electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA), electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO), and eConsent modules, the company’s eSource Ecosystem has been deployed across 300 studies, in all Phases (I–IV).
In partnership with
kSARIA Corporation (kSARIA), a producer and supplier of mission-critical connectivity solutions for the aerospace and defence end markets and a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, has acquired Compulink Cable Assemblies (Compulink). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Headquartered in St Petersburg, Florida, Compulink is an AS9100-registered manufacturer of high-reliability cables and harnesses for commercial and military applications. Since 1984, Compulink has served original equipment manufacturers nationwide with excellence in design engineering, prototype fabrication, production, and testing. The Company’s product capabilities include an array of harness assemblies such as coax, RF, Mil-C-38999 and miniaturised connectors, as well as custom-moulded
The latest CEPRES white paper explores trend developments in Private Debt, based on an analysis of deal level transactional data from the CEPRES Platform, encompassing 12,800 Private Debt deals and over 234,000 cash flow transactions, as well as over 800 Private Debt focused funds, from the millennium through to recent years.
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