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Distributed Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm specialising in insurtech, healthtech and fintech investments, has led a $6 million seed series investment in Posterity Health, a digital male fertility centre.
Numerous preeminent digital healthcare executives also participated in the round, including Gerry McCarthy, CEO of Merative, Laurie McGraw, former SVP of Health Solutions at the AMA, and Don Holzworth, serial entrepreneur and Chairman of the Advisory Board at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health.
Posterity Health’s Male Factor Management Platform offers a combination of virtual visits, at-home diagnostics and in-person consults to help assess and improve patients’ fertility status.
Groundworks, a foundation and water management solutions company backed by private equity firm Cortec Group’s Cortec Group Fund VII, has acquired Basement Systems of West Virginia.
The company will now operate as Basement Authority of West Virginia (BAWV) and will significantly expand and bolster the Groundworks service area throughout the state. BAWV is the eleventh acquisition completed by Groundworks since Cortec Fund VII’s investment.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Carey Olsen and Highvern have supported Capital Pilot on the launch of Boost Fund I, the UK’s first automated high-volume investment fund for high-growth UK startups.
Established as a Jersey Private Fund, Boost Fund I invests in UK startups, assessing each potential portfolio company using Capital Pilot’s unique and data-driven “Investability Rating System”. Boost Fund I is sector agnostic and plans to complete 100 equity investments in less than six months.
Carey Olsen acted as lead counsel to Capital Pilot on the fund launch, led by partner Chris Griffin, with assistance from associate Thomas Bulfin. The firm advised Capital Pilot
Booz Allen Hamilton has formed Booz Allen Ventures, a $100 million corporate venture capital arm that furthers the firm’s commitment to invest in strategic dual-use, commercial technologies that will provide federal clients disruptive technology for critical missions.
Aligned with client demand and the firm’s VoLT (Velocity, Leadership, Technology) growth strategy, Booz Allen Ventures will invest in early-stage companies and technologies within four core areas of demand: defence, artificial intelligence/machine learning, cybersecurity, and deep technology.
Booz Allen Ventures will enable Booz Allen to further expand its existing Tech Scouting capability to source and recommend technology investments with a focus on differentiated
New York-based investment firm Bessemer Investors (Bessemer) has made a strategic investment in RotoCo, the largest franchisee of the Roto-Rooter Plumbing and Drain Service in the US and Canada.
Bessemer is partnering with RotoCo’s existing management team, including Founder and CEO, Jim Holcomb, and President, Brian McCann, who will both continue to lead the Company in their current roles. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
For decades, Roto-Rooter and its franchisees have been some of the nation’s largest and most trusted providers of plumbing and drain cleaning services for both residential and commercial customers, and currently provide
Astorg is to acquire IPCOM, a pan-European B2B specialty distributor of technical and building insulation products, from Alpha Private Equity.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Melle (Belgium), IPCOM today employs 1,100 people across 15 countries in 64 outlets and 15 conversion sites. The company has a well-diversified customer base, with more than 15,000 daily customers in a wide range of industries, and long-standing and loyal customer relationships. The group distributes more than 50,000 SKUs and manages more than 250,000 shipments per year.
Resolute Capital Partners (RCP), a private investment firm focused on providing structured capital solutions to lower middle market businesses, has closed Resolute Capital Partners Fund V (RCP V) at $405 million in aggregate capital commitments.
The funding includes assumed leverage accessible through RCP’s licensure by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) as a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC).
In deploying RCP V, the RCP team will continue to execute the same strategy that has generated strong returns for its investors for more than two decades. RCP seeks to make capital commitments of $5-$40 million per transaction in profitable
Headless CMS Kontent.ai has secured a $40 million investment from Expedition Growth Capital (EGC).
Powering over 2,000 projects including websites, apps and headless commerce experiences, Kontent.ai was originally started in 2015 as a business unit of 18-year old bootstrapped company Kentico. Today, Kontent.ai employs over 120 employees across five offices on four different continents. As a new independent company, it is ready to hire 100 employees in the next 12 months.
This new funding sees Kontent.ai become its own standalone company following seven years as a business unit within parent company Kentico. As a bootstrapped company Kentico has developed
StepStone Conversus (Conversus), an investment platform designed to expand access to the private markets for individual investors, has launched StepStone Conversus (Luxembourg) SCA SICAV-RAIF, a Luxembourg umbrella fund, and its inaugural sub-fund, Conversus StepStone Private Markets (CPRIM Lux).
CPRIM Lux offers European investors global exposure to the major private market asset classes – Private Equity, Real Assets and Private Debt – in a single investment.
StepStone Group Inc is a global private markets investment firm that oversees $570 billion of private markets allocations, including $134 billion of assets under management. The firm’s more than 800 professionals work from 23 cities
Vitruvian Partners has acquired a majority ownership position in Outpost24, a specialist in identifying and managing cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
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