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ClearCare, a software platform for home care agencies, has secured a USD11 million investment led by venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP).
Cambia Health Solutions also participated in the round, and was joined by existing investors Voyager Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Harbor Pacific Capital, and City National Bank.
The investment will accelerate ClearCare's product development efforts.
"Home care is the lowest-cost institutional provider of care serving the highest-cost patient population. We believe that the home care industry has a tremendous role in solving the healthcare challenges of our time," says Geoff Nudd, CEO of ClearCare. "As the leading
Digital media business Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has reached a USD1.56 billion (GBP919 million) valuation as it priced its initial public offering ahead of admission to the London Stock Exchange on 23 June.
As an early investor in ZPG, Octopus has had a strong relationship with founders Alex Chesterman and Simon Kain having invested in their previous business LOVEFiLM.
Alex Macpherson, head of the ventures team at Octopus, says: “We’re really proud to have invested in Zoopla Property Group when the business was still very young and faced numerous challenges to succeed, at a time when the property market
IK Investment Partners’ IK 2007 Fund is to sell GHD GesundHeits to Nordic Capital Fund VIII.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the financial terms of the transaction.
GHD, headquartered in Ahrensburg near Hamburg, is the market leader for homecare services in Germany, providing medical products and services to more than 140,000 patients.
Following IK’s acquisition of a majority stake in GHD in 2010, the company has continued to strengthen its position as an integrated provider of homecare services to patients with serious diseases. Under IK’s ownership GHD has almost doubled its sales from EUR284m in 2010
Legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised financial service private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners on its buyout of AssurOne Group, a French digital insurance broker.
Under the terms of the deal, funds advised by AnaCap and AssurOne’s management team have acquired 100 per cent of AssurOne Group from financial investors Seventure Partners and Bpifrance, who have supported the growth of the business since 2006 and 2008 respectively.
Norton Rose Fulbright advised AnaCap on the acquisition and equity arrangements and their team was led by corporate partners Richard Bull (London) and Bénédicte Denis (Paris), both of whom were supported
Private equity firm McCarthy Capital has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to streamline its portfolio company data collection.
McCarthy manages more than USD900 million of committed capital in a mix of growth equity investments, recapitalisations and management buyouts.
iLEVEL enables fund managers to automate performance reporting from portfolio companies and establish a single source of truth that can be used for portfolio reporting, valuation, regulatory reporting, fundraising and investor reporting.
“At McCarthy, we grow businesses in partnership with the management teams of a diverse set of portfolio companies,” says Teri Mercer, director of finance at McCarthy
Gustavo Eiben has joined independent investment firm The Rohatyn Group (TRG) as a managing director.
Based in the firm’s New York office, Eiben will be responsible for business development in the Americas, while bringing his marketing expertise to TRG’s private markets business, which includes private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure and green energy funds.
Nicolas Rohatyn, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of TRG, says: “We are very pleased to have someone of Gustavo’s caliber joining TRG. His track record of successful capital raising, strong network of relationships around the world, and extensive experience marketing private equity
Clearlake Capital Group has completed the acquisition of ConvergeOne, a provider of communications solutions and managed services.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
ConvergeOne offers one source for multivendor solutions – from initial design and implementation through ongoing consulting, technical support, and managed services across the spectrum of IT, contact centre solutions, and unified communications.
ConvergeOne maintains strategic relationships with global solution leaders, including Avaya, Cisco Systems, IBM, Interactive Intelligence and Microsoft. It has more than 4,100 customers, including 46 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies.
“As global opportunities continue on a strong trajectory,
For the past 20 years or more the growth of the UCITS brand has been an unrivalled success: total assets are now an eye popping EUR7.1tn. Alongside this growth Europe has seen the emergence of management companies to handle the critical functions that a regulated UCITS fund entails – risk management, reporting, governance and distribution.
With the introduction of AIFMD in Europe (the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive), a new management company has emerged: the Super Management Company (‘Super ManCo’).
“The Super Management Company allows investment managers to consolidate their operations into one entity for both UCITS funds and AIFMD-compliant
DMS Offshore Investment Services identified the need to create an AIFMD solution for its clients three years ago when it opened its Dublin office. It was one of the first firms to establish an authorised Alternative Investment Fund Management Company in both Ireland and Luxembourg.
DMS boasts a 21-person team focusing on AIFMD and as Derek Delaney (pictured), Managing Director of DMS Offshore Investment Services (Europe) Limited comments: “DMS were cognisant of the fact that its Cayman client funds were going to encounter significant fund governance challenges when dealing with AIFMD. As directors of these funds, we’ve been proactively engaging
“Our AIFMD solution will be an infrastructure platform with distribution support but it absolutely won’t be an active distribution model; that’s a key differentiator for us,” Gavin Byrnes (pictured), Head of Business Development UK, UBS Fund Services, states emphatically.
UBS Fund Services is looking to roll out its AIFMD fund platform towards the end of Q4 2014. It will be domiciled in Dublin and will act as the AIFM for non-EU managers (particularly U.S. managers) in a similar way to how UCITS platforms operate today. “UBS will act as the administrator and custodian to the AIF but it will be
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