French start-up Bunkr has closed its first fundraising at EUR1 million with investments from Idinvest Partners, Daniel Marhely (Deezer co-founder) and Xavier NIEL. The financing will allow Bunkr to improve the development of its product, which allows users to share presentations using Dropbox and Twitter, and accelerate its international growth.
Private equity firm Northern Lights Capital Group, a provider of strategic capital and resources to boutique asset management firms, has made an investment in Buick Capital Partners. Buick is an independent, London-based private placement firm, providing advisory and placement services to alternative investment managers with strategies ranging from liquid hedge
Worldpay Group has made an investment in Pazien, a start-up founded by industry veterans David Burrows and Jason Pavona, located in Boston, Massachusetts. Pazien is creating products that simplify the payments ecosystem, which is becoming more complicated for businesses of all sizes around the globe to understand and manage.
DealerSocket has entered into a strategic investment partnership with private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. DealerSocket has grown from a start-up software company in a garage 13 years ago to a 450 employee CRM platform for the retail and independent automotive industries. DealerSocket partnered with Vista to accelerate growth
Peerius, the UK’s and Europe’s largest provider of personalisation software, has received growth finance of GBP1.2million from Beringea Growth Finance, part of Beringea, the manager of the ProVen VCTs.

 Peerius’ suite of SMART products allows each retail client to treat every visitor to its website as an individual. Peerius
Falfurrias Capital Partners has acquired a controlling interest in American Safety Council (ASC) to support and enhance its growth under the leadership of chief executive Jeff Pairan. Based in Orlando, Florida and founded in 1993, ASC is a provider of e-Learning training solutions to address transportation and workplace safety, testing,
Napier Park Global Capital’s financial partners team has completed the initial investment of the Napier Park Railcar Lease Fund, a USD370 million specialised, single-purpose private equity fund. The fund has deployed a total of USD359 million in equity capital, or 97 per cent, within 12 months of its inception and
ResponseTap, a specialist in call tracking and analytics, has secured GBP4m of Series B funding including GBP2.5m from Beringea, which manages the ProVen Venture Capital Trusts, and GBP1.5m from Eden Ventures. ResponseTap will use this investment to accelerate expansion in the US and to continue support for its UK development
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has completed its USD930 million acquisition of TravelClick, a provider of cloud-based revenue-generating solutions for the USD500 billion global hospitality industry. “TravelClick has established itself as the leader in delivering revenue-enhancing technology and services to the hotel industry, and we look forward to supporting the
RiverVest Venture Partners has sold portfolio company Lumena Pharmaceuticals to Dublin-based Shire Plc in a transaction with an upfront payment of USD260 million in cash. The deal also includes a payment for net cash at closing, and near-term contingent milestone payments related to ongoing clinical trials. In the three
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