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Manulife Investment Management

200 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON, M4W 1E5, Canada

Overview

Manulife Investment Management is the global asset management arm of Manulife Financial Corporation. It provides advice and innovative solutions to help investors realize the possibilities. Manulife Investment Management draws on more than a century of financial stewardship and the full resources of our parent company to serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members.

Total investments
11
Lead investments
8
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Asset Management
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
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Investment portfolio

  • prezent.ai

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

    Prezent.ai provides AI-enabled enterprise communication solutions tailored to Life Sciences customers. The company reported more than 150 Life Sciences customers, including 45 leading biopharma firms, and stated it has completed over 5 million deliverables across the sector. Prezent said it is in a scale-up phase and has grown ARR more than 200% year-over-year. The company launched Prezent Vivo, an offering that integrates purpose-built AI with expert services to deliver outcome-focused communications. Management frames Vivo as a strategic evolution to combine technology and domain expertise for regulated industries. The recent secondary investment by True Global Ventures is positioned to support the Vivo rollout and continued expansion.

  • CleanCapital

    Led · Equity · Dec 2024

    CleanCapital is a leading independent power producer focused on distributed clean-energy assets, particularly middle-market solar and energy-storage installations across the United States. The firm develops, builds, owns, operates, and invests in these projects, pairing institutional capital with regional development partnerships to accelerate deployment. Over the past decade it has acquired, built, and managed clean-energy assets representing more than $1.5 billion in total enterprise value, giving the company one of the broadest operating portfolios in the distributed generation space. The latest pool financed by the company includes 156 projects totaling over 180 MW of capacity. Management views distributed solar and storage as a cost-effective solution to rising U.S. electricity demand and grid-reliability challenges. Backed by a track record of stable returns, CleanCapital plans to keep scaling its portfolio by leveraging flexible, long-term financing structures such as its new private placement facility. The company’s goal is to deliver more clean and affordable megawatts to the grid while maintaining attractive, consistent returns for investors.

  • IntelePeer

    Participated · Equity · Jul 2024

    IntelePeer provides enterprise-grade, vendor-neutral AI-powered communications automation that integrates with existing business software to automate voice, messaging, and digital channels. Its platform uses generative AI and domain-specific workflows to build AI Agents and intent maps that identify high-ROI automation use cases for customers. The company has automated more than 600 million customer interactions and reports lowering the cost of an interaction ten-fold; one customer automates over 60 million inbound interactions annually with >70% full self-serve, and a Fortune 100 customer is on track to save more than $100 million in labor costs. IntelePeer says its AI business grew more than 100% year-over-year and is forecasting further acceleration. The company emphasizes responsible AI guardrails and partners with Microsoft Azure OpenAI to support secure, compliant deployments. Funding will be used to expand its AI Agent portfolio and increase investment in product, development, sales, and marketing. IntelePeer’s core product is the Atmosphere® CPaaS, which enables companies to engage customers via voice, SMS and social messaging while providing AI-enabled automation, communications routing, and on-demand analytics. The company is executing a strategy to expand beyond SIP and voice into a full omni-channel communications solutions provider. Management plans to grow organically by increasing sales, marketing, product and development headcount, and inorganically through acquisitions of complementary technologies and go-to-market assets. IntelePeer has received industry recognition from Frost & Sullivan, Gartner and IDC, underscoring its positioning in enterprise communications. Financially, the company has recently completed new financings and a credit facility to accelerate growth and innovation of its enterprise-centric Atmosphere platform. IntelePeer is a San Mateo–based Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider whose Atmosphere® CPaaS platform delivers global voice and messaging, communication APIs, workflow automation, and AI-enabled analytics. The platform is designed for business users so departments can automate processes, improve customer and employee experience, and engage audiences with outbound notifications. IntelePeer recently closed a $55 million credit facility that it will use to accelerate development and innovation of Atmosphere, expand platform capabilities, and drive customer acquisition and global enterprise expansion. The company said operating resources from the facility will be dedicated to continuing its growth across platform capabilities and market expansion. IntelePeer has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan and included in Gartner’s Market Guide for CPaaS, positioning it within a rapidly growing CPaaS market. IntelePeer Cloud Communications LLC is a San Mateo, California–based provider of business communications, offering cloud-based unified communications, cloud contact center, and enterprise voice services. Led by CEO Frank Fawzi, the company delivers full-service cloud calling directly integrated with Cisco Spark and provides UC enablement for Internet carriers and hosting companies. In March 2018 IntelePeer received a $15 million venture loan facility; Horizon Technology Finance Corporation funded an initial $12 million of its commitment under the facility. Horizon, a NASDAQ-listed specialty finance company, provides secured loans to venture-backed technology and related companies. The company said it will use the proceeds for general working capital purposes. IntelePeer is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Kennet Partners and NorthCap Partners. IntelePeer provides hosted, on-demand rich media communications services. The company is based in San Mateo, Calif. It secured $4M in equipment financing to support its rapid growth. The financing will be used to deploy additional network infrastructure. ATEL Ventures provided the equipment financing as a secured financing provider to emerging growth companies. CFO Andre Simone said the financing helps the company scale quickly to satisfy customer needs while growing appropriately.

  • Nexamp

    Led · Equity · Apr 2024

    Nexamp develops and operates community solar and battery storage projects, owning a portfolio of 20 operating community solar sites across New York, Illinois, Maine, and Massachusetts. The company has been financing growth through structured debt facilities, most recently a $106 million five‑year financing and a $200 million credit facility in April 2026, and previously a $330 million round involving MUFG and Siemens Financial Services. Nexamp uses cash flows from operating assets to recycle capital into new project development and to expand its customer base. Its stated plan after the latest financing is to reinvest freed‑up capital into additional community solar projects. The company emphasizes providing cost savings to households, small businesses, and municipalities as it scales its community solar footprint.

  • NineDot Energy

    Led · Equity · Jan 2024

    NineDot Energy designs, develops, and operates battery energy storage systems (BESS) that serve the New York City metropolitan grid. Its community-scale projects aim to deliver resilient, affordable power while lowering carbon emissions and improving environmental equity. The company currently has seven operating projects spread across four sites in Staten Island and The Bronx and maintains a pipeline of more than 60 additional projects. Backed by recent financing, it will construct 28 new battery storage installations totaling 124 MW / 494 MWh. NineDot also plans to expand beyond stationary storage by integrating mobile batteries and electric-vehicle charging at select locations. Management is evaluating opportunities to take its model beyond the New York City area. The recent $431 million debt raise materially strengthens its balance sheet and underwrites near-term project build-out.

Team

  • Charlie Dutton

    Head of Emerging Market Equities

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  • Colin Purdie

    Chief Investment Officer, Public Markets

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  • Frances Donald

    Senior Managing Director, Chief Economist & Strategist

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  • Kevin Headland

    Co-Chief Investment Strategist

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