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Worldpay Group invests in US payments start-up Pazien

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 enters into strategic partnership with Vista Equity Partners

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

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Peerius secures GBP1.2 million from Beringea Growth Finance

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

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Falfurrias Capital Partners invests in American Safety Council

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 completes initial investment of USD370m railcar lease fund

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

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ResponseTap secures growth funding from Beringea and Eden Ventures

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

Thoma Bravo completes USD930m acquisition of TravelClick

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

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RiverVest sells portfolio company Lumena to Shire for USD260 million

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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GI Partners to acquire Peak 10

Middle market private equity firm GI Partners is to acquire IT infrastructure and cloud provider Peak 10. Founded in 2000, Peak 10 provides hybrid IT infrastructure services including data centre services, private and enterprise cloud infrastructure and managed services.    Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the company operates 24 data

Private equity-backed IPOs outperform all other exit routes in Latin America

Private equity-backed IPOs in Latin America outperformed the broader public markets and other IPOs in the region by a significant margin over the course of 2013, according to a survey by EY. The report – Great expectations: what’s next for Latin American private equity? – underscores that exits via IPOs

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