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Accession Risk Management: Specialty Insurance Company Closes $1 Billion In Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

Accession Risk Management Group - the parent company of Risk Strategies and One80 Intermediaries, comprising North America’s ninth-largest privately held insurance broker - has closed a $1 billion incremental debt raise and refinancing. This funding will accelerate a growth trajectory driven by the continued acquisition of leading specialty brokerages and targeted organic expansion.

GRIN: An Interview With Marketing Head Olivia McNaughten About This Fast-Growing Creator Management Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

GRIN is the company behind the world’s first Creator Management platform, designed for the next generation of brands that recognize that authenticity is everything in the creator economy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed GRIN’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, Olivia McNaughten, to learn more about the company.

NewEdge Capital: About $5.5 Billion In Expected Assets Recruited In First Half Of 2024

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

NewEdge Capital Group, a leading and rapidly growing wealth management firm supporting successful financial advisors nationwide, announced that successful organic growth and recruiting efforts have put the firm on pace for another record year of growth. As of June 30, 2024, NewEdge Capital Group’s total client assets serviced are over $55 billion, with a substantial part of that figure coming from successful recruitment efforts.

Solace: Digital Health Platform Company Raises $14 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

Solace, a digital health platform connecting patients with expert healthcare advocates, announced today that it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. Solace was launched in 2022 to improve health outcomes for individuals and families through a human-centric and personalized navigation approach.

Avantor Selling Clinical Services Unit To Audax In $650 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

Avantor (a leading global provider of life sciences products and services) announced the signing of a definitive agreement to divest its clinical services business, including kitting, biorepository, and related equipment and ancillaries (clinical services) to Audax Private Equity, for a deal value of approximately $650 million.

FCAH Aerospace Partners Invests In Innodyne Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

O2 Investment Partners announced that, through FCAH Aerospace, it has invested in and partnered with Innodyne Systems to support its strategic growth plan.

RIA Crux Wealth Advisors Launches With First Tranche Of $1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

Crux Wealth Advisors announced their official launch as a hybrid Registered Investment Adviser and full-service wealth management firm. After two years of due diligence and preparation, this now fully autonomous firm launched with its first tranche of $1 billion in client assets under management (AUM) in a planned multi-phase transition strategy to minimize client and business disruption while also allowing for equally as efficient transitions in the coming months.

Borealis Biosciences: RNA Medicines Company Raises $150 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

Borealis Biosciences, a next-generation RNA medicines company, has emerged from stealth with $150 million in combined Series A financing from founding investor Versant Ventures and Novartis, and committed strategic research collaboration funding from Novartis.

FireHydrant Buys Incident Management Company Blameless

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2024

FireHydrant, a reliability platform across the entire incident response lifecycle, announced today that it has closed on a transaction to buy Blameless. This acquisition accelerates FireHydrant’s growth into the enterprise segment for incident management.