Charles has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce Ventures to become Europe’s leading conversational commerce as a service platform. Accel and HV Capital, who led the company’s seed round in 2021, also participated. Charles is an all-in-one, conversational-first operating system that is bringing everything associated

Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to acquire Green Street, a provider of commercial real estate intelligence and analytics. Green Street’s current majority owner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the technology and healthcare industries, will retain a minority position in the

Veremark, a pre-employment screening and verified career credentials firm, has raised a further $8.5 million in an equity funding round led by new US venture capital investor Stage 2 Capital, just nine months after its initial $2.8 million seed round. Samaipata, a Pan-European venture capital firm also joined the round

RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird), along with private markets investment firm StepStone Group, is to acquire a majority stake in Talent Systems, a casting software and talent marketplace for the entertainment industry. Talent Systems was formed by Co-CEOs Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin and in 2021 managed over 50,000 projects and

OMERS Private Equity is to acquire Bionic (Bionic), a provider of essential energy, insurance, finance and connectivity services to UK small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) from ECI Partners and its founders. OMERS Private Equity will take a majority stake in the Company, with the management team, led by Paul Galligan, CEO of

The Finance Durham Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has supported local business, Conduit Construction Network Ltd (CCN), with a £600,000 funding package. The investment has enabled the business to substantially scale-up its operations and relocate to a new

GreyLion Partners (GreyLion) and Vestar Capital Partners (Vestar) have completed an equity recapitalisation of 360training, a provider of online training and continuing education to regulated industries, to support the Company’s rapid growth and accelerate acquisition activity. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. The new investment will help 360training

KitaBeli, a consumer goods (FMCG) social commerce platform for consumers in Indonesia’s second-and third-tier cities, has closed a $20 million funding round led by Glade Brook Capital Partners (Glade Brook), a global growth equity investment firm. KitaBeli’s existing investors, AC Ventures and GoVentures joined the round, along with new investor

Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has sold e.fundamentals to CommercelQ, realising a 2.5x return. The sale follows Foresight’s acquisition of the VCT and EIS technology ventures division of Downing. In 2017, Downing was the first institutional investor in e.fundamentals and has continued to support

AM Ventures has closed to oversubscribed seed and early-growth fund at its hard cap of EUR100 million. Besides multi-million investments from well-established family offices, asset managers, SMEs and multinational corporations, startup founders who have already been supported by AM Ventures also join the strong investor lineup. AM Ventures manages a