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In an effort to recruit and retain new talent, PE firms of all sizes have prioritised talent management above everything aside from asset growth.
SYN Ventures has lead a $20 million Series A funding round in RegScale, a continuous compliance automation software company.
SineWave Ventures, VIPC’s Virginia Venture Partners, SecureOctane and several strategic investors also participated in the round.
The funding will primarily be used to drive sales and marketing initiatives initially targeted in the company’s three primary markets — government, financial institutions, and energy and utilities — and accelerate product development to meet the needs of customers globally.
Since the company launched eight months ago, RegScale has recorded triple digit revenue growth with nearly 8,000 downloads of its freemium Community Edition platform and
Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a global investment platform focused on the transition to a sustainable energy future, has participated in Rheaply’s latest investment round through its Elevate Future Fund.
Rheaply is a cloud-based resource exchange platform that connects people and organizations with resources, improves reuse outcomes and catalyzes the circular economy.
Earlier this summer, Rheaply announced a $20 million raise focused on driving a revolutionary shift in enterprise resource management. This funding round makes Rheaply co-founder and CEO, Dr Garry Cooper Jr, the single highest-funded Black entrepreneur in climate tech in the city of Chicago. With this funding, Rheaply intends
David M Hutchins, who served as the general counsel of North America Private Investments at Bain Capital, has joined Ropes & Gray. He will be a partner in the firm’s private equity practice.
At Bain, Hutchins advised Bain’s North America Private Equity, Ventures, Life Sciences, Double Impact and Tech Opportunities teams. He advised investors and legal teams on an array of ambitious mergers, acquisitions, take-privates, minority and majority investments, fund formations, and led teams that advised on day-to-day management of Bain’s portfolio companies.
Prior to Bain, Hutchins worked at two global law firms and as a senior associate at
Runway Growth Capital (Runway), a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has hired Brad Pritchard as managing director, technology.
Operating out of the Silicon Valley office and reporting directly to founder, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer, David Spreng, Pritchard will primarily make investments in the broader technology industry, including in companies focused on sustainability. Additionally, he will target top venture capital firms and the management teams of leading late-stage technology companies.
Before Runway, Pritchard was a managing director at BlackRock for more than eight years and led
Palatine Private Equity has completed a significant investment into My Pension Expert following approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
My Pension Expert is a UK at-retirement adviser, with its telephone and video-based services allowing the company to provide independent financial advice on a national scale.
Palatine’s investment will accelerate My Pension Expert’s growth plans as the business aims to ensure people of all wealth brackets can receive independent financial advice and achieve their desired retirement outcomes.
As part of the process, My Money Expert also completed a debt refinancing with Beechbrook Capital. The new package from Beechbrook
iCapital, a global fintech platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, has completed the acquisition of SIMON Markets. The transaction meaningfully broadens iCapital’s investment menu, technical capabilities, education offerings and support services for advisors and their clients.
Through this acquisition, iCapital will create a single source of alternative investment strategies from nearly 300 asset managers and product manufacturers, adding SIMON’s structured investments, annuities, digital assets and risk-managed products offerings to iCapital’s extensive menu of private offerings including equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure, direct deals, hedge funds, and other alternative strategies.
The combination
Linden Capital Partners (Linden), has completed its acquisition of Aspirion, a specialist in technology-enabled healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM), from Aquiline Capital Partners.
The Chicago-based private equity firm, which focuses exclusively on the healthcare industry, is joined by Varsity Healthcare Partners (VHP), a healthcare services private equity firm with RCM investing experience through its portfolio company Ventra Health, as a minority shareholder.
Aspirion is a provider of RCM services for complex claims and revenue integrity, offering a broad array of technology-driven solutions for the most specialised revenue cycle challenges faced by hospital systems and healthcare providers.
To support Aspirion’s growth
Vida Capital (Vida), a portfolio company of RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners, has appointed Matthew Roesler as managing director, structured credit. Roesler will be based in New York and report to Peter Polanskyj, head of structured credit.
Roesler will work alongside Polanskyj in support of the firm’s structured finance portfolios.
Roesler is a former partner and portfolio manager at Apollo Global Management where he was responsible for synthetic structured credit investing, solutions and capital relief transactions, and secured financing. He was also a voting member of Apollo’s structured credit investment committee responsible for all CLO, ABS and
Global investment firm Carlyle’S Global Credit platform has launched a decarbonisation-linked financing programme, providing an incentive for borrowers to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or achieve other climate-related targets.
The initiative is among the first decarbonisation-linked financing programmes available in the US private credit market, and represents the latest step in Carlyle’s ongoing efforts to drive progress in energy transition.
Through the program, Carlyle offers a pricing benefit tied to a borrower’s achievement of decarbonisation targets or other tailored climate-related KPIs. Carlyle and participating borrowers will work closely together to assess and monitor appropriate KPIs, while Carlyle’s dedicated ESG
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