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Redcliffe Lifetech (Redcliffe), one of India’s leading diagnostics platforms, has raised $61 million in a funding round led by LeapFrog Investments (LeapFrog).
Healthquad, Schroders, LC Nueva, Growth Spark Ventures and existing investors Chiratae Ventures and Alkemi Venture Partners also participated in the round.
The investment will be used to expand Redcliffe’s geographic reach across India, with a focus on expanding its low-cost but high quality Direct to Consumer Diagnostics into tier 2, 3 and 4 cities, providing affordable, rapid, and convenient pathology services from glucose to genetics in millions of households. Funding will also be used to scale
Global growth equity form General Atlantic has appointed Pablo Isla as a Global Senior Advisor.
Freeverse.io has closed a Series A investment round of €10 million, co-led by Earlybird and Target Global.
Elwood Technologies (Elwood), a platform providing institutional-grade access to digital asset markets and liquidity venues, has closed a $70 million Series A funding round co-led by one of Europe’s largest B2B investor Dawn Capital and global investment bank, Goldman Sachs.
There was additional participation from prominent investors in both the traditional finance and digital asset industries, including Barclays, BlockFi Ventures, Chimera Ventures, CommerzVentures, Digital Currency Group, Flow Traders and Galaxy Digital Ventures.
Elwood will deploy the funds to meet the needs of its rising number of institutional clients by expanding both the company’s breadth of product offerings and its global
Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), a private equity firm that invests in lower middle market companies to unlock equity value through an operationally intensive investment approach, is to sell Advancing Eyecare, North America’s leading provider of ophthalmic instruments, to Cornell Capital.
Advancing Eyecare was formed in 2019 when ASC combined its 2016 portfolio company investment in Lombart Instrument, the leading US distributor of ophthalmic instruments to ophthalmologists and optometrists, with Marco Ophthalmic Inc, a market leading, high-tech instrumentation supplier.
The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2022.
USEReady, a New York headquartered strategic data and analytics partner, has secured growth capital from Boston based Abry Partners.
Since its founding in 1989, Abry has focused on media, communications, business, and information services to become one of the most experienced private equity firms investing in North America and Europe.
Henley-in-Arden based wealth management specialist, MPA Financial Management, has teamed up with Hymans Robertson Investment Services (HRIS), a discretionary fund manager (DFM), to offer a range of new investment portfolios to its clients.
The new investments are tailored to MPA and the Chartered firm will become one of only a select number of UK wealth management companies to partner with HRIS.
Global investment firm Carlyle has created an integrated platform which brings together the firm’s substantial resources, scale and capabilities to further invest behind the energy transition and capture significant opportunities around the world.
In addition, Carlyle has made several leadership changes to enhance this platform, which will operate within the firm’s Global Infrastructure business.
Avik Dey will join Carlyle as co-head of Carlyle International Energy Partners (CIEP), the firm’s strategy targeting global energy investment opportunities outside of North America.
Bob Maguire, who assumes the role of co-head of CIEP, and together they will be responsible for the activities of the
Whoz, a SaaS solution delivering smart staffing and talent and project portfolio management, has raised €25 million in funding led by PSG Equity (PSG), a growth equity firm.
Macfarlanes has advised software focused growth equity investor FPE Capital on its latest fund, FPE Fund III, which has successfully closed at a raised hard cap of £185 million.
The latest fund will continue to build on the firm’s track record of being the first institutional investor into founder and entrepreneur led businesses.
The fund received commitments from existing investors with a 100% institutional re-up rate from Fund II and a group of new investors including pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, financial investors and family offices.
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