FogPharma, a Cambridge, Masachussetts-based biopharmaceutical company developing helicon polypeptides, has raised $178 million in a Series D funding round.  The round includes new investors ARCH Venture Partners, Milky Way Investments, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and existing investors VenBio Partners, Deerfield Management, GV, Cormorant Asset Management, T Rowe Price Associates,

Alchemy has sold one of Italy’s leading providers of portable sanitary solutions, YLDA, to Germany-based trade buyer Toi Toi & Dixi Group, a business which has been owned by Apax Partners since 2019. The transaction has resulted in a 4x MM return for Alchemy. YLDA is a Tuscany-based specialist in

BluPine Energy, a renewable wind and solar power generation and storage business and a portfolio company of Actis, has completed the acquisition of a 404MWp operating pan-India solar portfolio from the Atha Group.  The acquisition will enable BluPine to support India’s energy transition by targeting 4GWs of portfolio capacity over

Private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice is in negotiations over making an approximately $1 billion investment in enterprise software provider Pegasystems Inc, according to a report by BNN Bloomberg. The report cites unnamed sources as saying that the CD&R’s investment would be strategic and is not a prelude to

Eurazeo, via its Small-Mid Buyout team is to investing up to €100 million in NeoXam, alongside its founder Serge Delpla and the company’s management team led by Florent Fabre. Under the agreement, Eurazeo would become the group’s majority shareholder with historical investors, led by Cathay Capital and BPI – shareholders

Culture Partners, a portfolio company of middle-market private equity firm HKW, has has acquired Paradigm Learning. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Paradigm Learning creates and delivers customisable, instructor-led, game-based leadership development products. These business solutions cover a variety of industries and are available in twelve languages.

Sembcorp Industries is to acquire Mumbai-based energy producer Vector Green Energy for $345 million from a fund managed by the Indian unit of private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners, according to a report by Deal Street Asia.  The report cites a Sembcorp statement as revealing that the acquisition, which will

Motive Partners, a specialist private equity firm focused on fintech investments, is to acquire embedded/capital, a European venture capital platform focused on supporting the next wave of financial technology innovation, subject to customary closing conditions.

Palm Beach Capital Fund III, through one of its investment entities, has fully exited its investment in Cadre Holdings, Inc, realising proceeds equal to 9.3 times its invested capital in the process.