PEI Staff

OS Fund led a $12.4 million financing round for NuMat Technologies, which creates engineered systems through the integration of programmable nanomaterials. Other investors included Osage University Partners, Tin Shed Ventures as well as existing investors.

Workhorse Capital has led a $9 million Series B round for Traackr, which builds influencer relationship management technology. You & Mr Jones and existing investors also participated. To date, Traackr has raised a total of $14.4 million.

Glen Moller has joined Frazier Healthcare Partners as an operating partner on the firm's growth buyout team. Most recently, Moller served as CEO at ArroHealth.

Doug Campbell has joined Harvest Partners as a partner. Campbell previously  worked in the special situations fund at Oaktree Capital Management where he was a managing director.

Omnes made a partial exit from Circet, a French telecoms construction group, through a sale to Advent International. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Goodwater Capital, PayPal and institutional investors participated in a $44 million Series A financing for Dosh, an app that gives consumers cash back every time they shop at participating merchants. Dosh launched its app about a year ago.

Capital Group Private Markets kicked in $90 million to a Series E funding round for Innovent Biologics, a biotech company in China. New investors, including Cormorant Asset Management, Rock Springs Capital and Ally Bridge Group, and existing investors, such as Temasek, Hillhouse, Legend Capital, Lilly Asia Venture and Taikang Insurance, helped bring the total funding to $150 million.

Partech’s recently launched Africa Fund led a $3 million Series A round in TradeDepot, the SaaS platform for FMCG distribution in Africa. Africa Fund is targeting 100 million euros.

Colony Industrial, the industrial platform of Colony NorthStar, acquired a two-building warehouse portfolio at Henderson Freeways Crossing in the Henderson submarket of Las Vegas, NV. CBRE’s Kevin Higgins was the real estate broker on the transaction.

Koben Miceli was appointed chief executive officer of OpenGate Capital's portfolio company Hufcor. Miceli will also continue as chief executive officer of Power Partners, another portfolio company of OpenGate Capital. Prior to joining Power Partners, Miceli was executive vice president of global operations for Dematic Corporation.