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Venture capital firm Molten Ventures has participated in a $200 million Series C funding round in CoachHub, a global digital coaching platform.
The round, led by Sofina and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, will be used to further scale CoachHub’s product innovation and operations while accelerating the company’s global expansion. Following an $80 million round only eight months ago, this Series C brings the three-year-old company’s total funding to $330 million.
Spirea Limited, a Cambridge company created to advance a new generation of antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapeutics, has secured funding of £2.4 million in an investment round led by Jonathan Milner and Cambridge Enterprise.
US-based R42 Group, ACF Investors, o2h Ventures, Syndicate Room and the Cambridge Angels also participated in the round.
Spirea, a spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has previously received investment from IP Group, Cambridge Enterprise, Start Codon, Jonathan Milner, o2h Ventures and Syndicate Room, and is supported by a number of successful, high-profile board members from the life sciences.
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has launched a new prospectus for the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund (FWT EIS Fund), which is now open for investment again.
The Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund is a collaboration between Foresight Group, the £8.7 billion specialist asset manager, and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), a technology and engineering business originally spun out of Williams Formula 1. The concept of the collaboration is that by working together Foresight and WAE can deliver better results for investors than would be the case if either company were working individually.
The FWT
British Patient Capital has invested in Proximie, the global health technology platform digitising operating rooms around the world, as part of a $80 million Series C round.
The $12.5 million investment has been made via Future Fund: Breakthrough, British Patient Capital’s £375 million programme where it co-invests with private sector investors in innovative, R&D-intensive UK companies. The round was led by Advent Life Sciences and is British Patient Capital’s fourth life sciences deal following previous investments in Microbiotica, Epsilogen and Quell Therapeutics.
The report suggests that last year’s resurgence of M&A activity can be sustained, albeit perhaps not at the record levels seen in 2021, according tom the latest edition of Aon’s global M&A Risk in Review report.
Dealmakers are looking forward to future transactions as they seek opportunities amid recovering global growth and pursue digital transformation.
The outlook is particularly strong for M&A in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) sector, with almost three-quarters of respondents (70%) citing TMT as the most prolific sector in terms of expected dealmaking over the next 12 months – by far the largest share. This was
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has made two new hires in its Global Credit team, with Charles Fianko joining as Portfolio Manager, and Monique Carter as a Solutions Strategist, effective on 29 June and 26 May respectively.
Fianko, who joins from Lloyds of London, will be responsible for managing global credit portfolios, assisting the team in delivering outperformance and cashflow for wholesale and institutional clients. At Lloyds he was also a member of Climate Change Investment Committee and brings experience in tailoring corporate strategy to deal with climate change risks within investment holdings.
Carter Carter, who joins from Insight
The asset management arm of Abu Dhabi state investor Mubadala has led a $100 million equity funding round in Swedish fintech Juni, according to a report by Reuters.
Juni has also raise an addition $106 million in venture debt financing from Silicon Valley-based TriplePoint Capital.
Juni’s existing investors – EQT Ventures, Felix Capital, Cherry Ventures and Partners of DST Global – also participated in the funding round.
Blackstone has made progress on its $6.3 billion buyout bid for troubled casino operator Crown Resort after Australia’s gambling regulators granted the the PE firm permission to run the Crown Resorts casinos in the country’s two largest cities, according to a report by Reuters.
Sydney-listed Crown, which is 37% owned by billionaire James Packer, has backed Blackstone’s buyout offer having been damaged by revelations that it enabled money laundering and hit hard by the global pandemic.
Apollo Global Management Inc is in talks to support retail store operator Franchise Group’s acquisition of department store chain Kohl’s Corp through the provision of up to $2 billion in debt financing, according to a report by Reuters.
The Riverside Company, a private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has completed another add-on to its Red Nucleus (RN) platform with an investment in Actando, a global learning organisation that provides technology-enabled learning solutions to life sciences commercial teams that advance critical skills and capabilities across marketing, omnichannel, sales, key account management and market access.
RN is prioritising the development and launch of a unified, robust “essential skills” training offering and has brought in two acquisitions (including Actando) to further that ambition.
Actando marks the third add-on Riverside has completed to Red Nucleus in
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