The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Rockpointe, Inc. (Rockpointe), a premier healthcare education company. Rockpointe is a provider of accredited continuing education activities and related training for healthcare professionals. The acquisition is an add-on to Riverside’s portfolio company Clinical Education Alliance (CEA).

Rockpointe develops educational materials that are delivered either virtually or in-person and primarily generates revenue through grants from customers such as pharmaceutical sponsors, with no cost to training attendees. The company’s multi-channel offerings include regional events, online education and webinars across high-science therapeutic areas including oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, and cardiology.

“We are delighted to join forces with the leadership team at Rockpointe,” said Riverside Capital Appreciation Fund (RCAF) Co-Chief Investment Officer Peter Tsang. “This company brings a strong Primary Care audience – an area that CEA has been looking to expand into – as well as added scale in high-growth, high-science therapeutic areas.”

The acquisition of Rockpointe is the second add-on for Riverside’s CEA platform, following the purchase of MDOutlook, a provider of precision intelligence solutions that help life sciences companies develop and commercialise therapeutics and diagnostics in oncology, in July 2021.

This is one more example of Riverside’s dedication to its Education & Training and Healthcare specializations. The firm has invested in more than 270 platform and add-on companies in these two sectors since 1988 as part of its private equity and structured capital strategies.

“Rockpointe has significant scientific talent, new supporter and association relationships, and new service and product offerings,” said Riverside Vice President Mark Fishman. “We believe this investment will be highly accretive for CEA and enhance our ability to positively impact patient lives.”

Riverside invested in CEA, a provider of interactive live and web-based certified continuing medical education activities and related training for healthcare professionals, in December 2020, with a plan to expand its range of therapeutic areas and end user base, diversify its service offering outside of grant-funded CME training, and improve the company’s technology offering.

“We are thrilled to join CEA. This union provides our healthcare professional network with expanded educational content and access to the industry-leading learning and content portal. We look forward to extending our educational reach globally within the CEA network. It is a natural fit that supports our mission of providing education to improve patient outcomes,” said Tom Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of Rockpointe.

Working alongside Tsang and Fishman on the investment for Riverside were Partner Jason Fulton, Associate Abeer Irfan, Associate Peter Muncey, Operating Partner J.P. Fingado. Operating Finance Executive David Kralic and Capital Markets Senior Partner Anne Hayes. Regional Director Origination, Will Davis, sourced the investment for Riverside.

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Amsterdam, 15 May 2022 – Learned.io, a talent management platform (located in Utrecht), announced it closed its latest €1.5 million funding round led by Arches Capital. Current investor TechFund One, VIE Tech Capital and the Rabobank participated in the financing round. Learned will use the funding for product development and growth of the platform.

The founders started their mission in 2018, after experiencing first-hand the difficulties modern companies face with attracting and retaining new talent. Their goal at the time: helping 1 million employees to grow and perform, through great HR cycles that work. At the time of investment, Learned has already helped over 125 customers to modernize HR cycles towards continuous dialogues of skill and career development, resulting in engaged teams with future-proof skill sets.

The sales growth is impressive and the platform resonates with the customers. With the funding round closed, Learned will expand its team in the Netherlands over the course of 2022.

We see a bright future for HR tech that helps employees become more engaged with their employers. The Learned platform is all about people and team work. We believe the Learned team truly excels in this regard.

Frank Appeldoorn, managing partner of Arches Capital

About Learned
Learned is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Learned develops a skill-based talent management platform that helps companies modernize their HR cycles. Learned’s mission is to help 1 million employees to grow and perform, through great HR cycles that work.

For more information see www.learned.io.

About Arches Capital
Arches Capital is a fast-growing group of business angels that invests in startup and scale-up companies with a large growth potential. Through its investments Arches Capital bridges the gap between formal investors (VCs) and informal investors (business angels), by joining the best of both worlds:

“ We source, select and invest like a VC;
We engage, care and inspire as the angel we are. ”

Arches Capital differentiates itself by bringing superior deal flow, professional knowledge and a lower risk profile to the participating angel investors, while supporting its successful portfolio companies from start to exit through follow-on investments. For this Arches Capital is building the leading platform of actively engaged business angels that know how to operate and manage their investments in a professional and standardized manner.

For more information, visit www.arches.capital.

International private equity firm, Cinven, today announces that it has signed up to the Greater Share Education Fund, a first-of-its-kind philanthropic investment model, harnessing the expertise of some of the world’s top performing private equity funds and highest impact educational NGOs to address the significant need in the global education field.

 The Greater Share Education Fund (‘GSEF’ or the ‘Fund’) is a fund-of-funds investment vehicle with the intention of attracting committed capital from a broad range of investors (Limited Partners or ‘LPs’).  This committed capital will then be invested in underlying private equity funds specially selected by Greater Share’s investment committee.

The returns generated by the GSEF will be split between the LPs of the Fund and NGOs who will receive a significant proportion.

Meanwhile, Cinven – alongside the other private equity funds selected for commitments by GSEF – will donate fees and any carry, in proportion to the investment made in the fund by GSEF, also to be distributed to the selected NGOs. This will create a multiplier effect on donations, providing NGOs with long-term, unrestricted funding to scale their impact.

The NGOs will also benefit from ongoing strategic, operational and legal assistance from Greater Share’s community of supporters, further building their ability to improve outcomes for children and reduce inequality by closing the education gap.

Eight high impact education NGOs, identified through a rigorous selection process, with a track record of using evidence-based child-centric models to transform children’s learning, will receive sustainable, long-term funding from Greater Share.

Stuart McAlpine, Managing Partner at Cinven, said:

“Cinven is delighted to join Greater Share in tackling the significant global challenge of transforming education for children in under-served communities across the world.  Cinven will join the initial group of private equity firms committed to the Greater Share Education Fund and leverage the Greater Share’s innovative investment model to maximise the philanthropic impact of investments in its Funds.

“Alongside the Cinven Foundation, founded in 2008, today’s announcement is the most recent example of Cinven’s commitment to effecting positive change in the communities in which we operate and more broadly.”

The eight NGOs which will receive long-term funding from Greater Share are:

• aeioTU | transforming communities through developing children’s potential in innovative and sustainable ways in Latin America
• CAMFED | providing opportunities for women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Kaivalya | building the motivation and capacity of education system leaders in India
• KIPP | operating a network of high-quality public charter schools in financially under-resourced communities in the US
• London Early Years Foundation | providing access to high quality, affordable early childhood education and care in London
• The National Institute for Student Success |increasing college attainment while reducing equity gaps in the US
• Teach For All |developing collective leadership to ensure all children can fulfil their potential globally
• West London Zone | supporting children and young people in the UK to build the relationships and skills to thrive in adulthood.