Catalysed by new government policies favouring solar energy and multiple demand-driven opportunities for water-related companies, private equity and venture capital firms are focusing on these cleantech sectors, a report from Venture Intelligence shows. The private equity and venture capital firms surveyed recently by Venture Intelligence chose water and wastewater engineering,

Venture capital firm Cross Atlantic Capital Partners has invested USD4m in a USD6.1m series B financing for Health Market Science, a data and analytics provider for the healthcare industry. Cross Atlantic led the round with follow-on investments from other institutional investors, including Edison Venture Fund. Health Market Science is a

Payfone has closed its series B financing, with Opus Capital and BlackBerry Partners Fund joining founding series A investor RRE Ventures in a USD11m round. Bob Borchers (pictured) of Opus Capital and Kevin Talbot of BlackBerry Partners Fund will join Payfone’s board of directors in connection with this financing. Payfone

RoundTable Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has established a platform business in the ophthalmology market. The new platform company, Beaver-Visitec International, consists of ophthalmology products and assets recently acquired from BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) and Medtronic. Beaver-Visitec brings together the brands of

The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and Cambridge Associates have entered into a partnership to provide independent Australian private equity and venture capital data to industry participants. Under the agreement, Avcal will give its members access to aggregate Australian private equity and venture capital benchmark data and statistics.

The Sterling Group, a Houston-based private equity investment firm, has completed the acquisition of a majority interest in CCCG and its subsidiaries, including Express Integrated Technologies and Express Metal Fabricators. The acquisition was financed with equity from Sterling Group Partners II and debt financing from BNP Paribas. Express, headquartered in

Energy Holdings International and Wasatah Capital of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are forming a special purpose corporation with an initial capital of USD50m that will provide acquisition funding for oil and gas and energy power projects within the Americas, Middle East and South East Asia regions. Energy Holdings’ management team has

Investment company Eurazeo has entered a period of exclusive negotiations with private equity firm The Carlyle Group for the divestiture of B&B Hotels. This short-term negotiating period will end before the end of this week and may be extended if certain conditions with regard to the financing of the transaction