US venture capital (VC) investment in cleantech companies increased by 8% to USD3.98 billion in 2010 from USD3.7 billion in 2009 and deal total increased by 7% to 278, according to an Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource.   VC investment in cleantech in

Sun Capital Partners, a private investment firm specialising in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, has made an investment in The SCOOTER Store, the USA’s leading provider of power mobility solutions and services for elderly and disabled patients. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Based in New

PE- and VC-backed companies are growing significantly faster compared to their non Private Equity-backed peers as well as market indices like the Sensex, Nifty and CNX Midcap, according to a new study by Venture Intelligence, a research firm focussed on PE and M&A activity in India. The Venture Intelligence Private

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation, says that challenges posed by turbulent financial markets over the past few years have caused many of the world’s leading sovereign funds to reassess their investment strategies and risk management. The findings, published in a new paper

ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc, a privately held healthcare company that specialises in proton therapy, has completed a USD40 million round of private equity financing led by Maverick Capital. The funding will support the continued development and expansion of ProCure’s network of proton therapy centres. ProCure is the only healthcare company

Better Capital’s BECAP Fund LP has acquired certain trade and assets of the Santia group of companies (wholly owned subsidiaries of Connaught plc, in administration) and related subsidiaries. The investment has been effected through acquisition vehicles owned and controlled by the Better Capital F fund. The Santia group is a

The State Street Private Equity Index posted a 6.57% return for the quarter ended 30 September 2010, 592 basis points higher than the previous quarter and 74 basis points higher than the year ago period.  The third quarter return for the European and Rest of World regions were 14.66% and

Bowside Capital has held the final closing for its Bowside Capital Fund I, a fund of funds and co-investments specialising in the US private equity, small capitalisation market. Unique in its focus, Bowside Capital invests in, and co-invests with, US private equity funds with targeted capital commitments of USD100 million