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Centaur Fund Services: Best Fund Administrator <USD30 billion – Although the private equity industry’s resilience is being tested by the Covid-19 crisis, the outlook is not gloomy on all fronts. Market volatility can lead to losses, but it also has the potential to provide opportunities.
CapStone Holdings has launched GameAbove Capital, a USD50 million private venture fund focused on minority – and women – operated businesses engaged in sustainability-related products and services.
GameAbove Capital looks to deploy capital with thoughtful acquisitions, joint ventures, and equity financing in successful expansion-staged entrepreneurial ventures. Investment targets include, but are not limited to, products and services related to sustainability in mobility, learning and workforce development, and protecting clean water.
CapStone Holdings is launching the fund now in part to provide further stability for companies during these uncertain times due to the impacts of the coronavirus and to add further
SS&C Intralinks: Best Secure Workflow Management Provider – Investors’ demands have grown exponentially in the past few years, with requests for more transparency, data and standardisation – combined with a focus on reducing fees. These operational requirements have become increasingly burdensome for GPs and create pressure that drives the need for efficiency.
By A Paris – Starting the year with record levels of cash, the private equity industry was, arguably, in a favourable position to weather the storm caused by the Covid-19 pandemic which threw the world into chaos in March 2020. Due to its inherent long-term characteristics and patient capital, private equity is arguably better placed than other sectors to weather the pandemic. But despite this, all areas are being impacted in one way or the other, from valuations and fundraising to cashflow and operational threats, private equity managers are run off their feet, trying to keep up and adapt in an
Omnes has invested EUR60 million in a primary LBO, carried out as a proprietary deal with the Biofutur group, a cluster of medical biology analysis laboratories in Ile-de-France, which is managed by independent medical biologists.
Private investment firm Newlight Partners (Newlight) has made a significant equity investment in Zing Health Holdings, a physician-led Medicare Advantage HMO plan designed for Medicare-eligible beneficiaries.Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Chicago, Zing Health has a distinctive focus on populations underserved by traditional health insurance models. Its approach is based on a patient-oriented delivery system consisting of primary care providers, registered nurses, social workers, behavioural health specialists and community-based health care workers across a growing network of providers.
Zing Health was cofounded and is led by Dr Eric Whitaker, a seasoned physician and entrepreneur. He is supported by a
True, a European retail and consumer sector specialist investor, has led an investment of over GBP1 million into a London-based men’s make-up brand, War Paint, co-investing with Redrice Ventures, led by Partner Robert Senior, the former CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, and other angel investors. Since launching in 2018, War Paint has received a phenomenal amount of attention from the press and is the first men’s make up brand to have a fully stocked men’s makeup counter within the men’s section of major retailers such as John Lewis, Mr Porter and Harvey Nichols. The capital will be used by War Paint
Cowen Healthcare Investments (CHI) has successfully completed fundraising for Cowen Healthcare Investments III LP (CHI III)with USD493 million, USD93 million above the Fund’s original target. CHI received commitments from existing and new investors, including institutional investors, family offices, and high net worth individuals.
Led by Kevin Raidy, Tim Anderson, and Robert Sine, CHI was founded in 2012 to support innovation in the healthcare sector, with a particular focus on biopharma, diagnostics and digital health. CHI focuses its investment activity on established companies with outstanding management teams and disruptive approaches to disease that address significant unfulfilled medical needs. Since 2012 the team
Strait Fund Services (STRAIT) has strengthened its compliance offering for hedge fund and private equity clients with the appointment of Michael Barakat.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Par Equity has led a GBP750,000 financing round with support from The Scottish Investment Bank into UniKLasers, a manufacturer of high precision scientific laser instrumentation used in industrial applications.
This investment is the second that Par Equity has made since its partnership with British Business Investments via the Regional Angels Programme. The round takes UniKLasers’ total funding to GBP2.3 million. Par Equity first invested in UniKLasers in 2017.
UniKLasers will use the capital injection to expand its manufacturing and R&D capability, continue to build its global sales and marketing pipeline and increase its workforce to capitalise on a market
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