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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
Signet Leadership (Signet) and its clinical partner, Ladd Dental Group, have acquired Dill Family Dentistry.
Backed by Lead Capital Partners (“LCP”), Signet Leadership is a dental service organiSation providing administrative and support services to its dental partners. Dill Family Dentistry will join and operate under Ladd Dental Group, Signet’s flagship partner, as the platform’s eighth clinic in Indiana.
Dill Family Dentistry is led by Dr Todd Dill, DDS.
Kian Capital Partners (Kian), a middle-market focused private investment firm, has appointed Jordan Lee as a principal.
Lee will be based in Charlotte and will be responsible for sourcing, executing and managing new and existing investments across the firm’s portfolio with a focus on the tech-enabled/business services and healthcare services sectors.
Lee has over a decade of experience working with middle-market companies to develop bespoke strategies to drive organic and inorganic growth. Prior to Kian, Lee was a Managing Director at Starr Investment Holdings where he was responsible for sourcing, executing and managing middle-market companies with a focus on business
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has completed the sale of Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland (DSD) to Circular Resources, which provides a comprehensive offering for global corporations to meet their need for recycled plastics.
Its combination with DSD will create a large-scale provider of solutions for the circular economy in Europe with a secured, stable and high-quality inflow of raw materials for recycling.
Der Grüne Punkt was founded in 1990 as Germany’s first dual system to provide nationwide collection of used sales packages in a transparent and cost-efficient way beneficial for the consumer. Over time, DSD has
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