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TuneIn raises USD25m led by Institutional Venture Partners

TuneIn, a service for listening to the world’s radio, has completed a USD25m round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and General Catalyst Partners.   TuneIn has also surpassed one billion listening hours in the first four months of

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Graphite Capital sells Aberdeen-based Dominion Gas to Praxair

Mid-market private equity specialist Graphite Capital has sold Aberdeen-based oilfield services company Dominion Gas to Praxair.   Praxair is a US-based Fortune 500 industrial gases group listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which conducts business in over 50 countries.   With facilities in the UK, Norway, Singapore and West

Lat-Am PE activity on the up again, says Thomson Reuters

Private equity and venture capital investment in Latin America soared to USD11.6bn in 2012, the second highest level in the past decade and more than double the performance in 2011, according to Venture Equity Latin America, an annual report from Thomson Reuters. The report describes the deal, fundraising, and exit

British Columbia Discovery Fund to acquire shares of Vigil Health Solutions

British Columbia Discovery Fund (VCC), a venture capital investment fund managed by Discovery Capital Management Corp (DCMC), has exercised warrants previously issued to it in May 2011 to purchase 1,153,846 common shares of its portfolio company, Vigil Health Solutions.   These shares represent nine per cent of the outstanding common

Octopus leads GBP2.95m investment round into Conversocial

Octopus has led a GBP2.95m investment round into Conversocial, a specialist in social customer service solutions whose clients include Tesco, Waitrose, Barclaycard, Groupon, Hertz and Net-A-Porter.   With consumers increasingly using social media as a channel to communicate with businesses, Conversocial has developed a social media engagement system for customer

Venture capital performance held steady in 2012, says NVCA

Venture capital performance for the 10-year horizon continued its upward climb for 11th consecutive quarter, as returns across the one, three, five and 20- year horizons fell slightly as of 31 December 2012, according to the Cambridge Associates US Venture Capital Index, the performance benchmark of the National Venture Capital

Littlejohn invests in Gulf Coast Shipyard Group

Littlejohn & Co, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, has made an equity investment in Gulf Coast Shipyard Group, a manufacturer of ocean-going and inland marine vessels for commercial and military markets under the brand name TY Offshore, as well as superyachts under the brand name Trinity Yachts.

LDC backs management buyout of Node4

LDC, a mid-market private equity house, has completed a significant investment to support the management buy-out and continued growth of Node4, a regional data centre, managed IT and communications specialist. Node4 provides a wide range of data centre and managed IT services, including colocation, connectivity, managed hosting, communications and hosted

Bussey secures GBP1m investment for Quill

Three-time entrepreneur Ed Bussey has closed a GBP1m investment in Quill, the content creation platform he founded in 2011.   The investment comes from Ariadne Capital’s fund and entrepreneur investors, including Shakil Khan (Spotify, Summly, buy.at), Rupert Ashe (Graze, Videojug), Karen Hanton (toptable.com), Andrew Burge (King Content, iSUBSCRiBE), Nick Beare

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Secondary buyouts at eight-year high

Secondary buyouts (SBOs) helped to prop-up a deflated private equity market during 2012 as volumes and values hit an eight-year high, according to a report on global M&A trends. Since 2007, SBOs have on average represented 20 per cent of all private equity deals by volume and 30 per cent

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