ThermalTherapeutic Systems, a developer of portable platform technology to standardize hyperthermic perfusion, has completed a USD2.75m series A financing. After receiving initial start-up funding by the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, and successful rounds of private financing which included follow-on investments by the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse and Innovation Works, Originate

HarbourVest Global Private Equity, a closed-end investment company listed on Euronext Amsterdam, has reported a 3.3 per cent rise in net asset value over the six months to 31 July 2009. As at 31 July 2009, HVPE’s NAV was USD652.0m or USD7.86 per share. This represents an increase of USD0.25

Quantum Energy Capital has held its final closing at USD2.5bn for Quantum Energy Partners V, a private equity fund dedicated to the energy industry. Founded in 1998, Quantum has more than USD5.7bn of assets under management. Champlain Advisors acted as placement agent. Quantum remains committed to the same investment strategy

eBureau, a provider of predictive scoring and information services for online advertisers, has closed a USD10m round of series C financing led by venture capital firm Tenaya Capital. Existing series A and B investors Split Rock Partners and Redpoint Ventures also participated in the financing round. "Our investment demonstrates confidence

TiE-Arizona, the local chapter of the global association of entrepreneurs, will host a venture capital event that brings together entrepreneurs with top investors on 6 October. This is the ninth year that TiE-Arizona has held the event. Local entrepreneurs are invited to attend and meet top venture capitalists from the

Evolution Capital Partners, a Cleveland, Ohio-based private equity firm, has made an equity investment in American Eagle Mortgage, the fifth platform investment in Evolution’s current fund. AEM, based in Lorain, Ohio, is a mortgage lender providing loans in Ohio, Kentucky and Florida. It is a FHA/VA approved lender, specialising in

Sina, an online media company and mobile value-added service provider for China and global Chinese communities, has entered into a definitive agreement for a private equity placement of its ordinary shares with New-Wave Investment. New-Wave is a British Virgin Islands company established and controlled by Charles Chao, Sina’s chief executive

The majority of private equity executives expect economic conditions to keep deal activity and debt availability relatively low until the end of 2010, according to a survey by KPMG. Some 55 per cent of executives surveyed at the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Conference in New York said deal flow

Ben Merger Sub and Ben Holdings, corporations owned by funds advised by Apax Partners and formed for the purpose of acquiring Bankrate, have completed the merger of Ben Merger Sub with and into Bankrate, with Bankrate surviving. On 22 July 2009, Bankrate announced that it had entered into a definitive

Global Capital Management’s Global Opportunistic Fund I is declaring a distribution, primarily derived from a combination of gains from divestment as well as dividends from portfolio companies. Post this distribution, the aggregate amount distributed to date would be approximately 30 per cent.   The private equity fund managed by Global