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HCI Equity Partners (HCI), a leading lower middle market private equity firm that partners with founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and B2B service companies, has promoted Lisa Costello to tiger newly-created position of chief administrative officer (CAO), and Amy Stremmel to chief financial officer (CFO).
Costello joined HCI in 2004 and will continue to serve as the firm’s chief compliance officer. As CAO, she will lead HCI’s administrative and compliance operations and play a key leadership role within the firm. Prior to this role, Costello served as HCI’s CFO for more than a decade and has been a member of the Board
Gilde Healthcare, a specialised healthcare investor, is to acquire Sanquin Reagents from Sanquin Health Solutions (SHS) with its private equity fund.
Sanquin Reagents produces and sells blood group and immune reagents, materials needed for diagnostic research and drug development. Sanquin Reagents is an international producer in the field of hematology and immunology reagents, supplying tests to laboratories for medical diagnostics and research.
The investment by the private equity fund of Gilde Healthcare offers Sanquin Reagents the opportunity to scale up the production of diagnostic tests and to strengthen its leading position in the development of immunoreagents. Sanquin Reagents will remain
Avance Investment Management (Avance), a private equity firm that invests in founder-owned, middle market businesses in the services, technology and consumer sectors, has made a strategic investment in RIA Advisory (RIA), a provider of revenue management solutions.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in late 2016 with the goal of transforming revenue management for large and mid-size enterprises, RIA has established itself as the leading partner of choice for a wide range of Fortune 100 Companies – including numerous blue chip customers. RIA provides a leading portfolio of diversified offerings, implementing highly scalable Oracle platforms
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company Monte Nido & Affiliates (Monte Nido) to funds managed by Revelstoke Capital Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1996, Monte Nido is a leading provider of treatment programmes and services to adults and adolescents with eating disorders. The Company operates five respected brands with over 45 facilities across the US that provide a continuum of care encompassing inpatient, residential, partial hospitalisation, and intensive outpatient treatment. Its superior, industry-leading clinical outcomes, quality of staff and individualised approaches underpin its
Glints, an active end-to-end regional talent ecosystem in Southeast Asia for career development and recruitment, has raised $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D round co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital, and returning investor PERSOL Holdings.
International freight logistics and express courier specialist, ITD Global, has secured a £15 million investment from the UK-based growth capital investor, BGF.
ITD Global is a tech-enabled logistics consolidator, which brokers parcel and freight solutions for eCommerce clients. In the last 12 months, the Heywood-headquartered business has facilitated the delivery of more than 11 million parcels to addresses in the UK and overseas.
The significant investment from BGF will help the multi-award-winning business to deliver its ambitious growth plans through the expansion of its UK depot network, further development of its cutting-edge technology platform, and growing its newer services
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed an investment of $5 million to Bactofile, a specialist in gut microbiome health in the food and feed industry.
The funding will be used to accelerate the impact of Bactolife’s technology platform to develop binding proteins, a biologic solution to reduce the risk of gut infections in humans and animals.
Bactolife takes a unique approach to gut health for the greater good of humans and animals by developing breakthrough binding proteins that can reduce the risk of developing gut infections at an affordable price. With Bactolife’s technology platform and the investment made
Oxwash, the UK’s first sustainable on-demand laundry and wet-cleaning startup, has raised £10 million in a series A funding round led by Untitled VC, as it looks out to grow its nationwide footprint.
Long standing supporter Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, also returned for the round, as did Indeed founder Paul Forster, and Holly and Sam Branson.
New investors in the round include 8 Dimension Ventures, System Capital Management (Ukraine’s largest VC Fund), and Khimji Ramdas LLC. Many more existing investors chose to partake again, including Reckitt venture arm Access VC, Pentland Group, Ascension Ventures, Vala Capital, and Truesight Ventures.
Swiss Life Asset Managers has launched its second dedicated international renewable energy fund, Fontavis ESG Renewable Infrastructure Fund II, the successor to the first international fund, Fontavis ESG Renewable Infrastructure Fund Europe.
The newly launched fund Swiss Life’s fourth renewable energy fund and the second which invests globally.
The fund will be advised by a dedicated renewables team which build on strong and long-term partnerships with project developers, energy companies, investors, public authorities, and other stakeholders to provide robust opportunities for investing its clients’ capital.
DTCP has held the second closing of its Digital Infrastructure Vehicle II (DIV II) with around €1 billion of capital commitments. The Fund was launched in June 2021 and has raised additional capital from new, leading international investors, including BlackRock and abrdn, as well as a sovereign wealth fund from the Middle East and various German insurance companies.
The fund will continue to raise significant capital until its final closing in 2023.
DIV II invests in digital infrastructure – fibre networks, mobile towers and data centres – to accelerate digital transformation and create value for its investors, its portfolio
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