PE Hub Wire

Blackstone eyeing two big trends – artificial intelligence and the proliferation of cheap weapons – with its latest investment in Falcata; Archimed announces an investment in Organika Health Products; Renovus Capital Partners announces a strategic partnership with Aspire Home Health Care.

Mehdi Iraqi, managing director, limited partner services, will Advent's new office.

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners acquires The Rapid Group and PE Hub catches up with Eric Kanter, a managing director and head of industrial services at MSCP; Brightstar Capital Partners acquires majority stake in Material Handling Group USA; Kian Capital Partners partners with Allen Supply.

Oxid Remel provides diagnostic consumables and equipment used in microbiological testing.

KKR agrees to sell Infinity Transportation to Ares Management at an enterprise value of approximately $2.9 billion; a look through some recent take-privates in the software-as-a-service sector over the past six months; announcing the launch of PEI Private Equity.

Cleanaway runs a national network of waste management and resource recovery infrastructure in Australia.

Vista Equity Partners agrees to carve out a business in the identity and access management sector; looking at what's been driving deals in cardiometabolic disease care; exploring the senior primary care sector and Blackrock's deal for an equity stake from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

Apax and Warburg Pincus have been shareholders in Odido since 2022

O2 Investment Partners invests in Vertical Aerospace through portfolio company First Class Air; talking with Allen Rickard, principal on Ara Partners’s infrastructure team, to learn about the firm’s value creation plans for Pacific Ag; a look at how private equity managers can best utilize AI tools to gain an edge.

Tiryaq runs two owned clinics in Madrid and manages trauma units in more than 10 hospitals and private medical centers across Madrid, Barcelona and Málaga.