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HIG BioHealth Partners, the healthcare investment affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital, has led a USD40 million investment in VertiFlex, a producer of minimally invasive interventions for spinal stenosis.
HIG and Endeavour Vision co-led the financing alongside New Enterprise Associates, Thomas, McNerney & Partners, and Alta Partners.
Proceeds from the financing will primarily be used to fund US commercial expansion of the company’s Superion Indirect Decompression System, a minimally invasive spinal implant designed to treat moderate lumbar spinal stenosis, a painful and often debilitating condition that affects an estimated 500,000 new patients every year in the US.
The Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) has launched the Jersey Private Fund (JPF) Guide, setting out the criteria for Jersey’s new private fund product which can be marketed to up to 50 professional investors.
The JFSC has launched the JPF Guide after feedback from the industry on its joint consultation with the government which, undertaken in 2016, focused on the “rationalisation and consolidation of Jersey’s private fund and unregulated fund regimes”.
The regulator has also taken account of product developments in other jurisdictions.
The launch of Jersey’s new single private fund product will see the phasing out of
Private equity firms globally anticipate a surge in interest from Chinese buyers for acquisitions in healthcare, tech and infrastructure, according to research conducted by MVision Private Equity Advisers in conjunction with the London Business School.
Conversely, the private equity community expects real estate, a longstanding safe haven for Chinese investment, to attract less interest. Geographically, general partners (GPs) polled expect mainland Europe to attract the most Chinese investment this year, with the US in second place.
Understanding where Chinese appetite for outbound acquisitions lies is key for many GPs in Europe and the US, who spent much of 2016
LivingLens, a software provider of video mining and analytics technologies, has secured a further GBP1.3 million in funding from the Angel CoFund plus further angels including marketeers and ex-city financiers.
The Angel CoFund is an angel investor from LivingLens’ 2014 involvement in the Collider Accelerator programme.
LivingLens plans to use the funding to accelerate development of its Enterprise video analytics technology platform. In addition, LivingLens will further expand its sales, marketing, and customer success teams – including opening operations in the US in order to service its rapidly-growing US client base.
Carl Wong, CEO of LivingLens, says: “We
Concern about the impact of geopolitical risk in the investment profession has grown since the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in July 2016, according to a poll of almost 1,500 investment professionals from around the world by the CFA Institute.
The survey reveals that changes to the geopolitical environment are widely expected to have long-term impacts on the financial markets.
The vast majority of respondents (70 per cent) expect investment returns to be compromised by geopolitical uncertainties over the next three to five years.
Despite the risks identified by members in the poll, a large majority
Cawood Scientific, the UK’s largest independent provider of analytical laboratory testing services for land based industries, has partnered with Inflexion to support its next phase of growth.
Founded over 25 years ago and headquartered in Berkshire, Cawood offers a multi-disciplinary analytical testing service into the arable, livestock and environmental sectors.
Cawood serves over 3,500 customers across three divisions: NRM, Sciantec Analytical Services and Sci-Tech Laboratories. The company has circa 170 employees working in four laboratories in Berkshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire and Norfolk.
In December 2010, managing director Nigel Patrick and operations director Linda Radnor undertook a management buy-out, supported
MMC Ventures, a London-based venture capital fund, has promoted Simon Menashy and Ameerul Miah to partner.
Miah also becomes chief operating officer (COO).
MMC has also added to its executive team with Victoria Ferguson becoming general counsel and Anna Slemmings stepping up to the role of director of marketing and investor relations.
Menashy has led a number of new investments over the past two years including the firm’s most recent investment into AI business Signal Media. He also serves on the board of MMC portfolio companies Sky-Futures, Masabi, Admedo, Brightpearl and MUBI. He joined MMC in 2011 from
Visier, provider of a people strategy platform, has closed USD45 million in Series D financing, led by Sorenson Capital with participation from existing investors Foundation Capital, Summit Partners and Adams Street Partners.
This round brings Visier's total funding to USD94.5 million.
Visier is credited with the innovation of applied business analytics – the next generation of business intelligence that answers business leaders' questions in real time, from the cloud, with no dependency on technical resources.
The new capital will help fuel the company's efforts to meet the ever growing demand for its people strategy platform, as well as
Personal data management company Diamond has raised over USD2 million in funding to create a single access point for all cloud-based email, data storage services and personal devices.
The round of funding was led by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale of 8VC (formerly Formation 8) with participation by Cherubic Ventures, Beehive, Partech Ventures, Sway Ventures, Garage VC and Silicon Valley legend Pierre Lamond.
Inspired by JARVIS, the AI-powered assistant in Iron Man, Diamond founder Pierre Arys and head engineer Leander Lee are building a personal layer of secure intelligence that covers all devices and services, including Google Drive, Gmail and
Freetrade, an app-only stockbroker service designed to democratise access to the stock market by offering zero commission on global transactions, has raised GBP1.1 million within 12 days of its second Crowdcube crowd fundraising campaign.
This is over 360 per cent of its GBP300,000 fundraising target.
The funding raised will be used to support the first year of operations.
Freetrade will be launched in 2017 and will be available on iOS, with an Android app to follow later this year.
It offers commission free access to global shares as well as fractional shares, which is a share of equity
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