Cathay Capital, Eurazeo via its Small-Mid Buyout team, and Sagard NewGen, have signed an exclusivity agreement with a view to investing in DiliTrust alongside its management team led by Yves Garagnon and Nadim Baklouti. Under the agreement, the consortium of investors would become the group’s core shareholder by investing more

Audax Private Equity (Audax) is to sell Lifemark Health Group (Lifemark), a provider of physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and medical assessments in Canada, to Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw). Headquartered in Toronto, ON, Lifemark provides outpatient physiotherapy, massage therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic, mental health, and other ancillary rehabilitation services.  Since partnering with Audax

Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures have led a USD88 million funding round in Hex Trust, a Hong Kong startup offering custody services for crypto assets, according to a report by Bloomberg. The Series B round, which which also attracted participation from new investors including Ripple, Terra, Morgan Creek and

Webflow, a no-code visual development platform for the professional website and CMS market, has closed a USD120 million Series C funding round at a USD4 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to more than USD330 million. Y Combinator’s Continuity fund led the round, with participation from existing investors CapitalG,

Circle Cardiovascular Imaging (Circle CVI), a specialist in cardiovascular imaging solutions, has secured a strategic growth investment from software investment firm Thoma Bravo. Thoma Bravo’s involvement is expected to drive future investment in product innovation, extend Circle CVI’s market leadership position and fuel future growth.  Financial terms of the transaction,

Netrix, a provider of cybersecurity and end-to-end IT services and a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has acquired Edrans, a solutions provider focused on harnessing the power of the cloud for midsize enterprise clients. The acquisition brings substantial scale to Netrix’s cloud solutions portfolio and adds advanced technical capabilities to

Yellow Wood Partners (Yellow Wood), a Boston-based private equity firm focused on investing in consumer brands and companies, has formed a new sexual wellness platform, Beacon Wellness Brands, with the acquisition of several brands from Clio, led by its anchor brand PlusOne. Beacon Wellness Brands markets and sells sexual wellness

Newfold Digital, a web and commerce technology provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group and Siris Capital Group has acquired YITH, one of the largest independent sellers and developers of WooCommerce plugins and themes for WordPress, a free and open-source content management system. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, has led a EUR 10 million funding round in Sesame HR, a Spanish start-up provider of human resources software that streamlines processes related to centralised employee management on a single platform. Sesame will use the funds to

Global investment firm KKR has closed its previously announced investment in Biosynth Carbosynth, an life sciences reagents, custom synthesis and manufacturing services company, as well as Biosynth Carbosynth’s acquisition of vivitide, a global provider of custom peptides and antibodies for the life sciences and biotech industry. Existing vivitide owner Ampersand