Beauty Industry Group (BIG), a specialist in hair solutions, has acquired BELLAMI Hair (BELLAMI), hair extensions and haircare brand. BIG will support BELLAMI as it advances its differentiated go-to-market strategy and grows its strong consumer following to build on its current momentum. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  

An affiliate of middle market private equity firm Gemspring Capital has acquired GoldenSource Corp (GoldenSource), a provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions to financial services companies worldwide.

Zenitech, a high-growth transformational technology provider and a portfolio company of UK private equity Buy & Build specialist Sovereign Capital Partners, is to acquire Autsoft, a Hungarian-based provider of software and technology development services, subject to Hungarian Government approval.

International web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Swedish web hosting business, Cloudnet. Headquartered in Stockholm, Cloudnet was established in 2010 and has grown to become Sweden’s largest managed hosting company specialising in the operating system Linux.    Cloudnet currently services c500 SME customers primarily located in Sweden. In the

Latham & Watkins has advised private equity fund manager Capital D on the sale of Qmee, a Reading, UK-based app survey platform and fraud prevention technology provider, to Kantar, a marketing data and analytics company. The transaction is expected to close in June 2022.   Qmee offers brands access to

Alternative asset manager Gresham House has made a £37.5 million investment in N Family Club (NFC), a nursery group operating 20 locations across the South East and Midlands. This is the first investment in the education sector made by its second flagship sustainability fund, the British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund II

Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), a private equity firm that invests in lower middle market companies, is to increase its investment in portfolio company, Zips Car Wash (Zips). The transaction allows ASC to acquire equity from founding shareholders and build upon an operating strategy that has already driven considerable growth. The

Metatheory, a technology-driven entertainment company founded by Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, has secured $24 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Cryptocurrency firms Pantera Capital and FTX Ventures also participated in the round, among with Breyer Capital, Merit Circle, Recharge Thematic Ventures, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Daedalus, Sfermion,

Private equity firm AI Partners (PAI) is to sell Perstorp Holding AB, a sustainability-driven global specialty chemicals company, to Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG), for EUR 2.3bn on a cash and debt free basis. Established in Sweden more than 141 years ago, Perstorp is a specialty chemicals player that develops

Werk, a platform that enables companies to hire skilled and vetted migrant construction workers, handling everything from recruitment, verification, and relocation, has raised a $1.3million in a pre-seed funding round led by Change Ventures, one of the leading early-stage funds in the Baltics. Participants in the round, which is among