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HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with over $50 billion of capital under management, has appointed Carlos Soto as a managing director and head of US private equity business development.
Soto will be responsible for leading the business development and transaction origination efforts for all of HIG’s US private equity funds. With over 12 years of private equity origination experience, Soto joins HIG from MSD Partners, where he was a Managing Director and Head of Business Development in the Private Capital Group.
Prior to MSD Partners, Soto was a Managing Director and Head of Business Development at Comvest
Huron Capital (Huron) has invested in ExperiGreen Lawn Care (ExperiGreen) alongside a group of executives with deep industry experience.
The partnership brings the middle-market private equity firm’s long history of scaling services businesses together with a leadership team and board of directors that has amassed decades of experience at the most successful companies in the industry including Scotts LawnService, Barefoot Grass Lawn Services, TruGreen, and Real Green Systems, among others.
The platform is being developed through Huron’s ExecFactor strategy.
Members of ExperiGreen’s executive leadership team will remain in their existing roles as part of Huron’s investment. In addition to President
InMotion Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover, has hired Sam Nasrolahi as principal. Nasrolahi will be responsible for sourcing and leading new deals, as well as supporting existing InMotion portfolio companies.
Her focus area is in consumer digital services and the consumerisation of B2B. The appointment comes as InMotion Ventures seeks to supercharge its strategic investments into startups building a sustainable future for the automotive industry.
Nasrolahi joins InMotion from mobility startup Via, where she managed the launch of the company’s ridesharing and on-demand delivery services in EMEA and the US – including deciding on go-to-market
One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, has added Diana Barr to its team of operating partners.
Working alongside One Rock operating partners Mike Anderson and AJ Skobel, Barr will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock’s portfolio companies primarily through recruiting and proactive executive network development.
Barr has more than 30 years of experience in talent acquisition, leadership development and strategy, as well as executive recruiting. Prior to joining One Rock, Barr led Boeing’s global executive staffing and created the company’s in-house executive recruiting function. In that capacity, she served
Patchwork Health, a healthcare workforce platform built by NHS doctors, has raised £20 million in a series B funding round led by Perwyn. Praetura Ventures and KHP Ventures also participated along with a number of prominent angel investors, including Monzo founder Tom Blomfield and Social Chain co-founder Dominic McGregor.
Founded in 2016 by NHS medics Dr Anas Nader and Dr Jing Ouyang, Patchwork partners with over 100 healthcare sites across the UK. Their technology and services aim to transform healthcare staffing.
This investment comes at an important time: nearly half of NHS staff have reported feeling unwell as a result of
Pomona Capital, a global private equity firm specialising in secondaries investing, has raised a combined total of $4 billion across its platform in the past two years.
The firm recently held a final close on its tenth secondaries flagship fund, Pomona Capital X (PC X) with commitments of $2.6 billion.
PC X was oversubscribed and capped, surpassing its target of $2 billion by 30% and is approximately 50% larger than its predecessor fund Pomona Capital IX, which collected nearly $1.8 billion. The fund combined with primaries, co-investment interests and its retail product offering has contributed to the firm’s growth momentum
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has made a growth investment in Silverchair, an independent content management, product enablement, and digital transformation platform for association, society, and independent publishers.
BrightTower, an investment banking and M&A advisory services firm, served as exclusive financial advisor to Silverchair. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1993, Silverchair provides a suite of software and services to leading global publishers of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) content. Silverchair has leveraged its feature-rich and extensible content management system (CMS) to build new products—including software platforms for medical education and events—that help more than 400
Dusseldorf-based startup Pathmonk has closed a €1.5 million seed investment round led by TechVision Fonds to boost its next-generation AI website conversion platform for marketers.
Serial entrepreneur Carsten Lebtig (CEO and founder WorkMotion) also participated in the round.
This investment round serves to fuel Pathmonk’s growth trajectory and its mission to power up websites with AI tools. Pathmonk helps companies to get more conversions from their website applying behaviour analysis on the visitors to increase leads captured and revenue generation.
The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has sold its investment in Parker Food Group (PFG), a leading developer and manufacturer of specialty value-added ingredients for large multi-national and emerging food and beverage brands.
The buyer is an investment company of the Investindustrial private equity group.
Founded in 1926 as a manufacturer of speciality ingredients, PFG today is a go-to solutions provider of innovative, specialty ingredients that address critical customer requirements for use in baking, dairy, beverage, confectionary, ready-to-eat, snack and foodservice end markets. Riverside invested in the business in
Motive Partners (Motive), a specialist private equity firm focused on growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry, has completed the sale of Global Shares to JP Morgan.
Motive invested in Global Shares in August 2018, acquiring a ~40% stake in the business.
Global Shares, having grown to nearly $200 billion in assets under administration across over 800,000 corporate employee participants, will now enter its next phase of growth under new ownership, as part of JP Morgan. As reported at the time of signing the acquisition, JP Morgan will seek
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