HEAL Partners invests in Higher Ground Education
HEAL Partners, a
recently formed specialist Health and Education Growth Fund, today announced
its investment into Higher Ground Education (“HGE”), a hyper-scaling,
tech-enabled global Montessori-inspired education provider. HGE is the largest
Montessori operator in the US with 69 U.S. locations across 14 states and with
plans to expand to 300 schools across the country. It also has a rapidly
developing footprint in China.
HEAL Partners
successfully launched in August this year with four seed assets: Edge Early
Learning Centers (Australia), Removery (tattoo removal, USA), Fertility
Partners (IVF, Canada) and Halodoc (digital telehealth and pharmaceutical
delivery, Indonesia).
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Idlewild s Rod Jones on Whole Lotta Roadies
With the live industry remaining shuttered due to COVID-19, Idlewild guitarist Rod Jones has launched an ambitious project to support roadies – by lending them the spotlight Feature by Joe Goggins | 10 Dec 2020
“I realised that the people who make the gigs happen don’t have a fanbase to fall back upon.”
2020 has not gone the way that Rod Jones had expected. There should have been an air of triumph about it; Idlewild, the band he’s served as lead guitarist for since 1995, were due to celebrate their 25th anniversary, with a huge homecoming show at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall pencilled in for last month. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic turned his life and career upside down, with his group s plans postponed by a year and his studio, Post Electric, closed for several months during lockdown.