Deal Announcement: Ceiba Healthcare

Chrystal Capital advises CEIBA Healthcare on $10m fundraise

Chrystal Capital Partners LLP (“Chrystal”), a Mayfair-based entrepreneurial corporate finance and investment house, is pleased to announce that it has acted as financial advisor to CEIBA Healthcare (“CEIBA”), a Healthcare Technology company that is focused on Connectivity, Telehealth and Telemedicine on its US$10m placing. The company’s products are FDA registered and have won government contracts, signed partnership agreements in the US and are deployed in the Middle East and the US.

“We are delighted to have supported CEIBA, one of the Telehealth market’s most exciting technology companies.  CEIBA’s fundraise was led by two healthcare focused private equity groups and supported by family offices from within Chrystal’s network. The company’s connectivity product is interoperable with over 95% of all medical devices in an ICU, while their clinical decision and remote patient monitoring platforms products are revolutionary. Ceiba has solved the interoperability issue between medical devices in an ICU and offers wave form technology to virtual teams across the hospital network. We look forward to seeing the company grow globally”

— Raj Karia, Director at Chrystal Capital

About CEIBA Healthcare

Established in 2016, Ceiba Healthcare Group has developed healthcare technology products and solutions to turn ICU beds into true digital form. Ceiba eConnect Smart IoMT box captures data from medical devices and using Ceiba eClinics Platform displays the data in real time in visible, recordable and actionable format. Ceiba technology transforms hospitals in achieving limitless medical device integration irrespective of brand and real time patient data monitoring. With digital ICU beds, hospitals can provide full telehealth solutions and achieve efficiencies saving time and money while providing better patient care.

Ceiba’s AI-based algorithmic predictive analytics engine, ZeqAI, accurately predicts Sepsis, Septic Shock, Mortality, Length of Stay and Acute Kidney failure, and can be applied to predict other diseases.  ZeqAI analyses hundreds of data parameters at high frequency from endless medical devices via Ceiba eConnect Smart IoMT box to predict whether or not a patient is going to develop Septic Shock 48 hours before onset and provide real time information to assist medical professionals. Please visit https://www.ceiba-healthcare.com/about-us.html for more.

For further information please contact:

Raj Karia

Raj.Karia@chrystalcapital.com
https://www.chrystalcapital.com

Deal Announcement: EMMAC Life Sciences

Chrystal Capital Partners LLP acts as exclusive financial advisor to EMMAC Life Sciences Group on its £15m raise via successful issue of convertible notes

Chrystal Capital Partners LLP ("Chrystal"), a Mayfair-based entrepreneurial corporate finance and investment house, is pleased to announce that is has acted as exclusive financial advisor to EMMAC Life Sciences Group ("EMMAC"), Europe's largest independent cannabis company, on its £15m raise via an issue of Convertible Loan Notes (the "CLN Issue"). The CLN Issue saw strong support from existing shareholders, with Measure 8 Venture Partners LP, EMMAC's largest existing cash investor, leading the round with a significant investment.

Chrystal's cannabis group, Chrystal Capital Cannabis Advisory ("CCCA"), is the only dedicated Cannabis Corporate Finance advisory team in Europe. This raise marks the 13th cannabis deal that CCCA's team has closed in the last 4 years. CCCA's team have now raised and advised on over $400m of transactions in the cannabis sector, across North America, Latin America and Europe.

“We are delighted to have advised EMMAC, Europe’s largest independent cannabis company, on this successful, oversubscribed £15m raise. Our cannabis sector expertise, married with our deep relationships with cannabis investors, continue to deliver much needed growth capital to this exciting, fast growing industry. CCCA is uniquely positioned to back leaders like EMMAC as the secular wave of cannabis deregulation and legalisation continues to unfold at pace across the world.”

— Tristan Gervais, Head of Chrystal Capital Cannabis Advisory

About EMMAC Life Sciences Group

EMMAC Life Sciences Group is Europe's largest independent cannabis company, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. With a unique supply and distribution network throughout Europe, EMMAC's vision is to bring the life-enhancing potential of cannabis to the people who need it. For more information about EMMAC, please visit https://www.emmac.com/. 

For further information please contact:

Kingsley Wilson
Investment Partner
kingsley.wilson@chrystalcapital.com
https://www.chrystalcapital.com

Deal Announcement: Candid Co.

Candid Closes $63 Million Series B

Candid, a direct-to-consumer brand expanding access and affordability to oral health care, announced it raised a $63.4M Series B financing round. Participating in the round were Candid’s Seed and Series A investors, including Greycroft, Bessemer, and e.ventures, and featured participation from new investors, including RiverPark Funds, blisce, Redesign Health’s limited partners, and Mousse Partners. This brings Candid’s total funding to nearly $90 million.

The Series B round will fuel Candid’s rapid growth through both its retail and at-home channels, as well as provide capital to double the number of employees to 550 by the end of the year. Candid will be opening an additional 50 Candid Studios across the United States — bringing the total number of retail locations to more than 60 — offering an unparalleled in-person experience to those who seek it while continuing to offer remote treatment for patients in harder-to-access areas of the country. In just 18 months of operation, Candid has already opened 13 studios in major cities across the U.S. and served tens of thousands of customers.

Candid also announced it is donating $25 from every set of aligners it sells to Smile Train , a charity that supports free cleft surgery and comprehensive cleft care for children around the world. This partnership will result in at least 1,000 more cleft surgeries for children in 2019.

For more information or to view Candid’s studio locations visit Candidco.com

Deal Announcement: MPX Bioceutical Corp

MPX Raises US$40 Million Secured Convertible Loan to Fund Capacity Development of MPX Assets and Acquisitions

MPX Bioceutical Corporation (“MPX” or the “Company”) (CSE:MPX) (OTC:MPXEF) is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed a US$40,000,000 secured convertible original issue discount loan (the “Convertible Loan”) financing (the “Offering”) maturing on May 25, 2021 (the “Maturity Date”). While non-interest bearing, the Convertible Loan has been issued at a discount price of US$812.06 per US$1,000 of principal and will accrue value at a rate of 7% per annum compounding on a quarterly basis until the Maturity Date. The Convertible Loan has been issued through a wholly-owned Luxembourg subsidiary of MPX (“MPX Luxembourg”). 

Use of Proceeds

The proceeds of the Offering will be used primarily for accretive activities including capacity expansion, acquisitions, and to support activities involved with securing new cannabis extraction, production and dispensary licenses in various jurisdictions in both the United States and Canada.

In addition, US$9,500,000 will be reserved for payment of the seller notes due on June 30, 2018 in respect of the acquisition of 99% of the membership units of GreenMart of Nevada NLV, LLC in December 2017.

“The pace of growth in our industry continues to accelerate with several U.S. states launching new cannabis legalization programs, the Canadian provinces designing and implementing retailing initiatives and acquisition opportunities arising on both sides of the border and, indeed globally. We have been introduced to multiple expansion opportunities and will be providing our shareholders and the market with an update on our progress on several of these in the next few days”

— W. Scott Boyes, Chairman, President and CEO of MPX

“We are also witnessing the emergence of significant consolidation activity as several larger North American industry participants have made announcements regarding transactions that would result in larger national, or international, footprints for the combined entities. Larger cannabis entities will facilitate more effective brand awareness, product development and cost efficiencies. These are exciting times for our industry and having access to capital is critical for MPX to exploit the growth opportunities presented by this market. This current funding was arranged in a few short weeks without the need for the involvement of an investment bank demonstrating the confidence of shareholders and the capital markets in MPX’s business plans, its execution to-date and its growth trajectory”

— Mr. Boyes

About MPX Bioceutical Corporation

MPX, an Ontario corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries in the U.S., provides substantial management, staffing, procurement, advisory, financial, real estate rental, logistics and administrative services to three medicinal cannabis enterprises in Arizona operating under the Health for Life (dispensaries) and the award-winning Melting Point Extracts (high-margin concentrates wholesale) brands. The successful Health for Life brand operates in the rapidly growing Phoenix Metropolitan Statistical Area.  With the acquisition of The Holistic Center, MPX adds another operating medical cannabis enterprise to its footprint in Arizona.

GreenMart of Nevada NLV, LLC (“GreenMart NV”) is an award winning licensed cultivation, production and wholesale business, licensed for both the medical and “adult use” sectors in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is already selling wholesale into the Nevada medical cannabis market. GreenMart NV has also optioned suitable locations and intends to enter the higher-margin retail arena by applying for at least two dispensary licenses in the Las Vegas market which will operate under the “Health for Life” brand.

In Massachusetts, MPX is building out and will operate a cultivation and production facility as well as up to three dispensaries and manages three full service dispensaries and one producer in Maryland.

The Company also leases a property in Owen Sound, Ontario, for which an application to Health Canada has been made for a cannabis production and sales license. In addition, the Company will continue its efforts to develop its legacy nutraceuticals business.