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The Riverside Company has acquired healthcare education company Rockpointe, a provider of accredited continuing education activities and related training for healthcare professionals.
The acquisition is the second add-on to global private investor Riverside’s portfolio company Clinical Education Alliance (CEA) platform following the July 2021 purchase of MDOutlook, a provider of precision intelligence solutions that help life sciences companies develop and commercialise therapeutics and diagnostics in oncology.
Rockpointe develops educational materials that are delivered either virtually or in-person and primarily generates revenue through grants from customers such as pharmaceutical sponsors, with no cost to training attendees. The company’s multi-channel offerings include
Mercury Capital has appointed State Street Corporation to provide fund administration services for the new Mercury Capital Fund twenty2. The AUD1 billion fund, Mercury Capital’s fourth private equity fund since its inception, completed its fund raising and closed on 30 June.
Mercury Capital Fund twenty2 will focus on mid-market private equity transactions in Australia and New Zealand, and anticipates making eight to ten investments over its life cycle. It will target partnership investments alongside private business owners and management teams in companies with enterprise valuations in the range of AUD150 million to AUS500 million.
Concept Ventures (Concept), formerly known as RLC Ventures, has launched an oversubscribed £50 million pre-seed fund (the Fund) – including a £30m cornerstone commitment from the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) programme.
Since launching in 2018, Concept has backed over 100 founders at the pre-seed stage, with investees seeing a 71% graduation rate from pre-seed onward (twice as high as the industry average). With two exits within the last two years (including Cliff.ai which was acquired by Gtmhub in June), prior funds are displaying strong returns.
Concept Ventures will invest in pre-seed stage founders reshaping how we “work, play,
Circulate Capital has held the third close of the Circulate Capital Ocean Fund I-B (CCOF I-B), bringing the fund’s total commitments to $53 million.
CCOF I-B’s latest close brings the Singapore-based investment-management firm’s total assets under management to $165 million, making it the largest impact investment firm dedicated to fighting plastic pollution and advancing the circular economy in South and Southeast Asia.
Alongside the firm’s $112 million Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF I), the fund invests in companies across the plastic-recycling and waste-management value chains, as well as startups focused on early-stage disruptive innovation and technology aligned with Circulate Capital
BlackRock has held the final close of its Diversified Private Debt Fund (DPD) with a total capital raise of £1.7 billion. DPD was developed in partnership with UK consultants to provide exposure to a diversified mix of standalone, scaled private debt strategies through a single solution.
This simplified governance structure combines bottom-up selection with top-down strategy allocation and the flexibility to capitalise on market dynamics.
Managed by James Keenan, CIO and global head of credit, the Fund leverages BlackRock’s 20+ years in Private Debt to invest across US and European Direct Lending, US and European Real Estate Debt, and Global
British International Investment (BII) and FMO have made a joint $166 million commitment to African Infrastructure Investment Fund 4 (AIIF4), managed by African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM).
Dawn Capital has a led a $20 million Series A funding round in RPA Supervisor, the creator of an Intelligent Automation Management (IA) platform. s16vc and existing investor MMC Ventures also participated in the round.
This latest investment – coming just nine months after RPA Supervisor’s initial Seed round – will fuel the firm’s expansion in the US market and the development of new platform capabilities aimed at making Microsoft Power Automate Desktop an enterprise-grade automation solution.
RPA Supervisor adds advanced monitoring and orchestration capabilities to an enterprise’s automation tools, bringing operational resilience to these mission-critical technologies and enabling companies
Ocorian has appointed Owen Jones as head of infrastructure. He will be part of chief operating officer Carole Murphy’s team as the fund administration, capital markets, corporate and fiduciary services specislist strengthens its focus on business transformation across the group.
Jones has a proven track record delivering and supporting major transformation programmes within stringent regulatory requirements. He will be working to streamline Ocarina’s environment while enhancing user service and driving cost effectiveness. He will be based in London, helping to lead Ocorian’s global IT journey to the cloud.
Wynnchurch Capital (Wynnchurch), a middle market private equity firm, has sold Foss Floors (Foss) to Mohawk Industries (Mohawk), a producer of floor covering products for residential and commercial applications in North America and residential applications in Europe.
Foss is a specialist in non-woven needle punch floor coverings and specialty flooring products. With an unwavering commitment to environmentally sustainable and American-made manufacturing, the Company’s products are produced in state-of-the-art, computerised production facilities in Rome and Chatsworth, Georgia. Foss uses 100% recycled PET polyester made from post-consumer plastic drinking bottles and is one of the world’s largest needle-punch based manufacturers.
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Veritas Capital’s (Veritas) Veritas Capital Vantage Fund (Vantage Fund) has made a strategic investment in Epiq Solutions, a provider of software defined radio and turnkey radio frequency (RF) solutions for governments and enterprises.
Epiq Solutions is now a portfolio company of the Vantage Fund, which targets opportunities in the middle market. Co-founders John Orlando, Aaron Madsen, and Michael Shogren will continue to lead the company and will retain a significant ownership position. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2009, Epiq Solutions provides small form factor, SWaP-C (size, weight, power and cost) optimised software defined radio and
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