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Jio Health, a full-stack technology driven healthcare company, today announced a Series A round of USD5 million led by Monk’s Hill Ventures.
Jio Health’s combination of technology and clinical services provides consumers with the complete ecosystem of care benefits including home doctor visits, nursing services, pharmacy delivery, lab collection, telemedicine, and digital medical records.
Backed by Monk’s Hill Ventures, Jio Health Expands to Meet Exponential Growth & Broaden its Spectrum of Care Services
Affordable, high-quality healthcare remains out of reach for many in emerging Southeast Asia. Consumers are confronted with congested hospitals and poor care quality, often waiting for hours
Private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services (Gen II) has appointed Ian Cameron as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Cameron will focus on strategic and operational responsibilities at Gen II and will report to the Managing Principals, Norman Leben and Steven Millner.
Since 2015, Cameron was Chief Financial and Operations Officer for the Washington State Investment Board (WSIB). WSIB is a public pension plan that oversees approximately USD130 billion in assets under management, including retirement plans that benefit approximately 784,000 active and retired public employees. WSIB’s investment portfolio consists of over USD45 billion in private market assets. While at
ARX Equity Partners (ARX) has completed the majority acquisition of a leading Czech-based facades business, Fenestra Wieden (Fenestra), and simultaneous add-on purchase of Skanska’s Czech facades operation – now collectively rebranded as Fenestra.
Going forward, ARX will partner with Fenestra’s senior management, who will retain a significant minority stake as part of the deal terms. The acquisition was completed on 1 April, 2019 with the deal value undisclosed.
Fenestra is a producer and designer of aluminium-glass modular facade solutions serving customers throughout Europe. The newly combined Fenestra business (https://fenestra- wieden.cz/) employs more than 200 people, operating from two production sites
Akin Gump has appointed Allen Shyu as a partner in the firm’s Beijing office. Shyu comes to Akin Gump from Stephenson Harwood, where he was the lead partner in the Beijing office.
Shyu’s practice focuses on advising mid-sized and large-scale public companies on equity capital markets and corporate M&A transactions, particularly in the energy and natural resources sector. A native of Taiwan, Shyu also provides regular counsel to Taiwanese companies issuing equity and equity-linked securities and venture capital/private equity transactions for emerging companies in that market.
“Allen’s arrival significantly boosts our capital markets, corporate and energy offerings in mainland China,”
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners has successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of Nexeo Plastics, the plastics distribution business of Nexeo Solutions, a subsidiary of Univar Inc.
Nexeo Plastics is a global leader in the distribution of plastics, including polymer products and prime engineering resins. Through its vast distribution network, Nexeo Plastics connects world-class suppliers with customers across a broad cross section of end markets in more than 60 countries in North America, Europe and Asia. Nexeo Plastics utilizes its proprietary technology platform to efficiently serve its suppliers and customers and has distinguished itself as an industry leader
US private equity firm Horizon Capital’s latest USD200 million fund, Emerging Europe Growth Fund III (EEGF III), has acquired a minority stake in the Ajax Systems, a producer of smart security systems in Ukraine for USD10 million.
EEGF III’s investment was made through the purchase of a portion of the shares held by SMRK, an early-stage financial investor in Ajax Systems, and a portion of the shares held by Company management.
Founded in 2011, Ajax Systems is one of Europe’s leading professional security systems manufacturers. Today, the Company’s products are sold in over 75 countries world-wide. Ajax Systems enjoys
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland.
The new Dublin office expands the firm’s global footprint to ten locations, adding to its presence in Beijing, Bogota, Boston, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Toronto. Craig MacDonald, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners will oversee operations in Dublin.
The Dublin office will operate under HarbourVest Partners (Ireland) Limited (HVPI), which was established in September 2018. HVPI is authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland as an EU Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) to conduct regulated activities within the EU on behalf
Centre Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles, has acquired a majority interest in New England Fitness and affiliates, now doing business as One World Fitness PFF, an owner and operator of fitness clubs under the Planet Fitness banner.
The Company’s founder, Bill Fidler, and other key members of management invested alongside Centre. Financial terms were not disclosed.
New England Fitness was founded in 2006 to operate fitness clubs as a franchisee of Planet Fitness and has expanded its operations to include 18 fitness clubs primarily in the Philadelphia metropolitan
Aquicore, a commercial real estate software company with an all-in-one operations platform, has acquired Entic, a best-in-class prescriptive analytics solution that generates targeted recommendations to drive peak utilities and facilities performance for commercial assets.
With the acquisition, Aquicore begins to consolidate the fragmented proptech market, cementing its position as the frontrunner in commercial real estate operations and performance optimisation.
“I couldn’t be more excited about the merging of these two teams. Together, we will propel the proptech industry forward, giving the commercial real estate industry a powerful solution unlike any it’s ever seen. When experts look back at the
Private equity firms are continuing to invest in the UK, despite the uncertainty created by the Brexit process, according to a new report from eFront, a financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments.
eFront’s research showed that capital commitments have continued strongly since the Brexit vote in mid-2016, with deployment becoming more stable from 2016 onwards, compared with the trend seen over the previous three years. The average quarterly growth of capital deployment from Q1 2016 to Q4 2018 stood at 0.98 per cent, compared with 0.68 per cent from Q1 2013 to Q4 2015.
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