Liaison Group purchases clinical task management provider

Consumer information website myTribe and private hospital chain Practice Plus Group are joining forces.

European automated compliance platform Naq has raised £2.6 million to boost healthcare and medical compliance across the UK and the EU.

Espoir Properties has completed a strategic acquisition of health and social care provider Amicis Care in Cheltenham.

Greenleaf House Group, a Scottish children's residential care and school provider, is being acquired, sources familiar with the situation say.

Knight Frank has partnered with BKR Care Consultancy to offer healthcare clients strategic advice and property solutions.

FSHC has sold nine operational sites for a total of £16.1 m in cash, as reported in a statement issued jointly by the administrators and the group

The National Care Consortium is embarking on a expansion initiative throughout the UK, bolstered by a unding package from HSBC UK

Psyomics is in the process of raising approximately £4.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round, this publication can reveal.

iCON Infrastructure Partners is acquiring diagnostic imaging business Alliance Medical Group from South African hospital operator Life Healthcare Group.

Lottie, a UK-based startup offering a SaaS platform for people seeking care homes, has raised €20 million in a Series A funding round.

At-home cancer patient care technology Entia has closed a Series A round let by BGF, Parkwalk and existing investors.

32Co has secured £2.2 million seed funding led by Balderton Capital with participation from Wavemaker 360 Health and strategic angels.

Downing has provided a pre-development bridging loan of £16.4 million to finance the acquisition of two care home development sites in Essex.

Pneumagen, a clinical stage biotech company, has secured £8 million in financing.

A pan-European advanced diagnostics and out-of-hospital services provider has raised incremental €170m Term Loan B borrowings to support growth.

Lenus Health is preparing to embark on a Series A funding round with a target range of £8 to £10 million, this publication can reveal.

Albion Capital has completed the top up offers across its six venture capital trusts.

Here is our monthly update bringing last month’s major European M&A and fundraising headlines. Dentistry and social care continued to be the sectors attracting the most investment during March.

Healthcare operators, investors and regulators are demanding more when it comes to sustainability, and ESG is gradually becoming the new standard. This week HealthInvestor sits down with Kartesia’s head of CSR and ESG Coralie De Maesschalck and deal lead on the impact strategy, Kamil Kapasi to talk about the firm’s newly launched impact strategy as well as market trends, challenges and opportunities ahead.

This week HealthInvestor meets Anders Petersson, managing partner at European private equity firm IK Partners. He guides us through the firm’s key focus areas and talks about investment trends, challenges and opportunities.

RCI Group, a UK provider of services in the areas of criminal and family justice, forensic healthcare, community mental health, and data and technology, has secured a sustainability-linked financing facility.

Welcome to your end-of-year European healthcare M&A roundup. We take a look at the most popular deals and fundraising activity in healthcare businesses around Europe and beyond that happened over the course of the last month of 2022.

Civitas has acquired a £200 million property portfolio from CareTech under a sale and leaseback arrangement, HealthInvestor can reveal.

Learn 2 Live Youth Clinic has secured an undisclosed funding round to acquire and develop its very first site in Hampshire.

Real estate investment trust Impact Healthcare REIT has secured an extension of £25 m to its existing revolving credit facility with HSBC

Renaissance Care is spreading out its capex on equipment and furniture and speeding up the capex on energy-saving measures.

Oxford Medical Simulation has raised a further £2.1 million in a funding round that included ACF Investors and angel investor Dr Nicolaus Henke.

London-based healthcare-focused private equity firm Apposite Capital has raised £200 million for Apposite Healthcare III.

Medefer is in talks to raise a Series B round with a target of £25 million, HealthInvestor hears from credible market sources.

Virtual fertility clinic Apricity has raised €17 million in a Series B round led by MTIP.

Dental group Envisage Dental has acquired Shipston Dental Practice in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.

Certific has raised a total of €7.4 million to advance remote medical diagnostics. HealthInvestor speaks to Dr Jack Kreindler, co-founder and chief scientific officer to find out more.

Florence, a UK-based technology provider for social care, has raised £28.5 million through a Series B funding round led by Axa Venture Partners with participation from Roo Capital and existing backers SEEK Investments.

Scottish care home group Renaissance Care has secured £30 million additional acquisition funding with an unnamed backer as it plans to double in size over the next three years.

The third round of the Digital Health Partnership Award will provide up to £500,000 to support digital projects that can support patients at home. 

Locum’s Nest, a London-based medical workforce technology company that connects healthcare professionals to vacant work in the NHS, has raised a seven-figure undisclosed amount in a strategic financing round, this publication can reveal.

Reducing staffing pressures is the top investment criterion in healthtech innovations, speakers of ‘The fight for healthtech investment opportunities post pandemic’ panel at LSX World Congress 2022, stated.

Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired Todays Dental Group, a London-based dental company comprising eight dental practices.

Care Hires, a software startup that allows care providers to hire on-demand healthcare staff, has received £2m investment from private equity firm West Hill Capital to accelerate growth.

PillSorted, a personalised delivery pharmacy service, has raised $6 million in Seed funding with the participation of Pear VC, Hoxton Ventures, Edison Partners and the founders of DoorDash.

SBRI Healthcare recently awarded £4 million to nine medical technology and digital innovations to support the NHS in recovery from Covid-19.

HMNC Brain Health, a Germany-headquartered company focused on the development of personalised therapies in psychiatry, will soon complete its Series B financing of $50 million which was launched back in Q4 2021, HealthInvestor UK can reveal.

Investment management firm Pollen Street Capital has formed a joint venture with real estate lender Beaufort Capital to fund various real-estate developments, including care homes, across the UK.

Dutch auction company TBAuctions has acquired UK online medical auction company, British Medical Auctions.

European healthcare REIT Aedifica has partnered with Spanish care home operator Neurocare Home to develop a portfolio of around 1,000 elderly care units in Spain for roughly €75 million.

London-based Proximie, a platform that allows surgeons to advise on operations remotely around the globe, has teamed up with Johns Hopkins University affiliate Jhpiego to implement an Obstetric Safe Surgery (OSS) project in Kenya. The team-up forms part of the company's national and international expansion programme.

London-based investment firm Twenty20 Capital has acquired the former Virgin Care, from Virgin Group. The company has been rebranded as HCRG Care Group.

Digital triage provider eConsult Health has partnered with technology provider InterSystems to expand the deployment of its solutions.

Rodericks Dental has acquired two dental practices owned by Gower Healthcare in Swansea.

Integrated care record software provider Graphnet Health has bought remote patient monitoring specialist Docobo.

Online GP booking service provider Evergreen Life has acquired Salvie Ltd, the creators of online consultation and workflow system askmyGP for an undisclosed sum.

Digital healthcare provider Livi has acquired agency VIX Digital, which designs digital solutions for the NHS with a focus on integration, stability, ease of use, and continuous improvement.

Palatine Private Equity has acquired a controlling stake in Routes Healthcare from Key Capital Partners.

Real estate investment firm Fore Partnership has formed a joint venture with extra care operator Amicala to deliver “ultra-sustainable” later living developments,

Dentistry group Enamel Dental has acquired Duke Street Dental Centre, a three-surgery, predominantly private practice located in Brighton Lanes in East Sussex.

Med-tech company Induction Healthcare Group is acquiring Attend Anywhere, a video consultation provider, for an initial £15.56mln in cash.

Alderley Park-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, has secured £3.9 million in funding.

City & County Healthcare has acquired complex care business Interserve Healthcare from Interserve Group, including its service delivery brands, Advantage Healthcare and Strand Nursing.

American private equity firm Lone Star Funds upped its bid for Britain’s largest retirement home builder McCarthy & Stone and the shareholders have accepted.

Gen inCode, a genetic testing business specialising in the risk assessment and prediction of cardiovascular disease, has raised funding of £3.4 million.

London-based software company ClearCourse Partnership has acquired Practice Point, the owner and provider of the Assisi veterinary practice management system.