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Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), have announced a GBP1.45 million follow-on investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Inovo Robotics (Inovo).This investment will allow the Company to grow sales internationally and brings the total invested by the Fund to GBP2.95 million, having originally invested GBP1.5 million in October 2018 to support the Company’s first product to market.
Inovo was founded in 2016 by Henry Wood and Jonathan Cheung, both former senior engineers at defence technology company, Northrup Grumman. The Company is developing a competitively priced “cobot”, a
Council Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, and co-investor DW Healthcare Partners, a Toronto-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, have sold their stakes in Caregiver to WindRose Health Investors (WindRose), while retaining a small equity ownership. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Caregiver, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a provider of long-term care services and support to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Caregiver’s professional staff members are dedicated to improving each client’s quality of life with the design, delivery, and management of personalised treatment plans. Caregiver and its branded affiliates provide
Swiss impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance Ltd (BlueOrchard) has held the final close of the InsuResilience Investment Fund (IIF) Private Equity Sub-Fund, an initiative to improve access to climate insurance across the developing world. The fund has already made six investments across emerging markets, helping to protect more than 20 million poor and vulnerable people from the effects of climate change.
IIF is the only G20 Initiative on Climate Risk Insurance investing private capital in private sector companies to increase commercial insurance offerings. The G20 InsuResilience Global Partnership aims to protect more than 500 million vulnerable people in developing countries
The Riverside Company has financed Modern Hire’s acquisition of Sonru, an Ireland-based provider of automated video interviewing technology. The investment is an add on to Riverside’s portfolio company Modern Hire, the all-in-one enterprise hiring platform that enables organisations to continuously improve hiring experiences and outcomes with trusted science and technology.
The combined organisation offers the most comprehensive enterprise hiring technology product suite in the global marketplace, extending Modern Hire’s team, reach and expertise and providing enhanced value to Sonru’s clients.
“Adding Sonru to the Modern Hire organisation was vital to growing its client-facing reach to include offices in Europe, the Middle
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, and Francisco Partners, a global technology-focused private equity firm, have a made a significant growth investment in Edifecs, a global health information technology solutions company. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2020, have not been disclosed.
Founded by Gurpreet (Sunny) Singh in 1996, Edifecs is a premier technology company in the US healthcare market with solutions focused on interoperability, workflows, value-based care payments and analytics. Since its inception, Edifecs has provided a full range of capabilities to support most healthcare entities (ie, payers,
Laybuy, a spcialist ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ (BNPL) technology, has secured a GBP80 million debt facility from Victory Park Capital (VPC), a global alternative investment firm. With plans for continued international expansion, the funding from VPC will fuel Laybuy’s growth in the UK.
“Laybuy has grown exponentially since we launched three years ago and we would not be able to continue to scale without our investors’ support and confidence in our vision,” says Gary Rohloff, co-founder and CEO of Laybuy. “In addition to increasing our customer base in our established geographies and sectors, our expansion in the UK is a
Funds advised by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, and DTCP, an investment management group specialised in technology growth equity and digital infrastructure, are to acquire a majority stake in Community Fibre Limited, London’s fastest and most competitively priced 100 per cent full-fibre broadband provider, alongside its existing investors Amber Infrastructure and RPMI Railpen. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Community Fibre is future-proofing London communities by delivering 1 Gbps of full-fibre broadband to households and up to 10 Gbps of full-fibre broadband to businesses, at the most competitive prices on the market. Their mission is to empower communities
The Untitled Ventures, a seed and pre-seed stage VC investor that focuses on breakthrough technologies from Eastern Europe, is raising a new fund which will invest in early growth stage tech companies in the CEE region.
The firm has offices in London, Moscow and Riga, acting as a venture capital bridge between Eastern and Western Europe.
Untitled Ventures has invested into 26 companies to date. Its portfolio includes Portuguese dating app Pure, Sizolution, and Fixar, which was granted a license to operate in Canadian skies just a few days ago. In 15 percent of those, women are among the founders
Pan-European asset manager Tikehau Capital’s subsidiary Ace Management has held a EUR630 million first close of Ace Aero Partenaires, a fund focused on helping companies in the aviation industry that have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The initiative was first announced last June by Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery in France. Airbus, Safran, Thales and Dassault Aviation launched a call for tenders and selected the Tikehau fund and its subsidiary ACE in order to form the fund.
Contributions from the French government, main contractors and Tikehau Capital, the fund manager, will enable the fund
Los Angeles-based private equity firm Gallant Capital Partners (Gallant Capital), has held the final closing of its inaugural fund, Gallant Capital Partners I, with USD378 million in total commitments. Fund I reached its hard-cap and was substantially oversubscribed, exceeding its target of USD300 million. Investors include public and corporate pension funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, fund-of-funds, wealth managers and family offices from North America and Europe.
Gallant Capital was formed in 2018 and is led by Jon Gimbel, Anthony Guagliano and Desmond Nugent. Gallant Capital deploys an operationally focused investment strategy and since its formation has completed ten
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