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ProTrak International has released a major upgrade to its CRM platform for investment managers, hedge funds and private equity firms, Release 11.0.
The latest release features a new option allows users to set up a designated secure folder where a copy of every document referenced in ProTrak is automatically kept and preserved in its original form, so that users cannot move or delete them.
Based on extensive observations and feedback from their global user community, ProTrack has also added a predictive, wizard-like Simplified Query option that pre-fills commonly used fields to save time. Individually personalised watermarks enable mass-customised reporting in
Gecko Biomedical (Gecko) has closed a series A2 EUR22.5 million financing round led by Sofinnova Partners, which becomes the largest investor in Gecko, with support from Bpifranceand existing series A investors Omnes Capital, CM-CIC Innovation and CapDecisif Management, who invested in the company in December 2013.
In conjunction with the financing, Antoine Papiernik at Sofinnova Partners and Chahra Louafi at Bpifrance have joined Gecko’s Board of Directors.
Gecko was co-founded by Christophe Bancel and Bernard Gilly (both from the iBionext Network), Prof Jeff Karp (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Boston, MA, USA) and Prof Bob Langer (Massachusetts
Altium acted as financial advisor to the shareholders of Guestline, a leading provider of mission critical software for the hospitality sector, in securing a significant investment from The Riverside Company.
The Riverside Company has entered a definitive agreement to invest in Guestline and the transaction is expected to close imminently.
Based in Shrewsbury, Guestline delivers a range of products covering all areas of hospitality and hotel management, with solutions that drive up occupancy, average room rate and yield. The business has a broad customer base of independent hotels, hotel chains, student accommodation and aparthotels and is a trusted partner
NorthEdge Capital, a private equity house that invests in businesses in the North of England, has hired David Walters as its Digital and Data Director to help maximise online, data and technology opportunities for portfolio companies.
Walters has over 25 years’ experience leading technology, digital, product and analytics teams across a range of sectors including media, automotive, marketing and insurance. Most recently, he held the position of Interim Group CTO at Watchstone Group, helping the organisation to launch the useage based insurance business Hubio in the UK and USA. In this role, he played a central part in developing outsourcing
Nautic Partners has partnered with management to invest in and recapitalise ExactCare Pharmacy, a company focused on improving medication adherence for patients with chronic conditions and on multiple medications.
ExactCare was founded by Dale Wollschleger in 2009 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. In connection with the Nautic investment, Doug Present, former CEO of MHA, was appointed chairman of the ExactCare board of directors and Jim Smith, former CEO of QoL meds, joined the board.
Dispensing 2 million prescriptions and serving 20,000 patients annually, ExactCare works with health insurers, home health agencies, and health systems to help patients on multiple
European private equity firm Cinven is in exclusive negotiations to sell Prezioso Linjebygg Group (Prezioso), an international provider of a range of multidisciplinary technical and engineering services to the energy and infrastructure sectors, to Altrad Group.
Altrad, headquartered in France, is the leading European provider of scaffolding, insulation, painting and mechanical services to customers in the industrial, construction and infrastructure sectors.
Prezioso, headquartered in France, provides mission critical maintenance services for sizeable and high value energy assets, particularly nuclear plants and oil and gas production facilities, when they are in full operation. Its blue-chip clients include Total, EDF, BP,
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) has been chosen by Israel's National Innovation Authority (Office of the Chief Scientist) to operate a Jerusalem-based technological incubator.
The JVP led group included Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI), Reliance Industries (NSE: Reliance) and Yissum, the Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The JVP Labs Incubator will invest in startups in a variety of fields, among them enterprise software, media technologies, Internet of Things (IOT) and communications.
According to the Israel National Innovation Authority, which runs the State of Israel's technological incubator program, the license was granted based on JVP's broad experience running two
The Georgia Research Alliance’s GRA Ventures program has reached a major milestone with the companies in its portfolio raising over USD1 billion in equity investment from venture capital firms and strategic investors.
"A billion dollars in investment is a significant achievement for the GRA Ventures program," says C Michael Cassidy, President and CEO of the Georgia Research Alliance. "Helping university faculty move their ideas out of the lab and grow them as new businesses is essential to Georgia's economic future."
The GRA Ventures program, started in 2002 was founded to enable universities to look across their faculty and laboratory landscape
In a challenging third quarter for equity investors both public and private, US private equity and venture capital funds each lost ground for the first time in several years, though the latter only fractionally.
Both bested public market equity returns, according to benchmarks published by Cambridge Associates LLC.
For the quarter ending September 30, 2015, the Cambridge Associates LLC US Private Equity Index returned -1.4 per cent. The Cambridge Associates LLC US Venture Capital Index posted a return of -0.4 per cent. Over the first three quarters of the year, the same indexes respectively gained 5.3 per cent and 11.3
Jon Coker (pictured), Managing Partner at MMC Ventures comments on the UK budget statement…
Today's Budget is further recognition of the importance of entrepreneurs and small businesses to the UK economy as a whole. The UK has become a fertile place to start and grow a business with a strong entrepreneurial community, great access to funding and a continued heritage of innovation. The Chancellor has today made several beneficial changes in the spirit of entrepreneurialism by permanently doubling Small Business Rate Relief, cutting Capital Gains Tax and extending Entrepreneur's Relief. These are changes that will be welcomed by UK entrepreneurs as they both support small
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