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Index Ventures backs tax filing app TaxFix

Taxfix, a digital tax app aimed at simplifying the process of filing a tax return, has raised USD65 million in a Series C round from investors including Index Ventures and Creandum. The company will use the funds to grow its 200-strong team by another 100 people, as it broadens its range of products

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Fortino Capital Partners holds first close of second VC fund on EUR45m

Fortino Capital Partners has held a first close on EUR45 million for the successor of its first VC-fund, Fortino Capital Venture II. The fund, which will be focussing on early stage European software and tech companies with a regional bias to the Benelux, has a target size of EUR80 million.

L&G takes stake in ground source heat firm

Legal & General Capital (LGC) announces that it has taken a 36 per cent stake in The Kensa Group, one of the UK’s largest players in the ground source heat pump technology sector, as it scales up its investments in addressing decarbonisation. Complementing Legal & General’s existing clean energy investment portfolio,

BlackRock raises USD5.1bn for Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund

BlackRock has held the final close of Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III (GEPIF III) at USD5.1 billion, making it the largest alternative investment fundraise in BlackRock history. The final close value also exceeded both the original Fund target of USD3.5 billion and the original hard cap of USD4.5 billion.

Arbour Lane Capital Management raises USD1.2bn for Fund II

Arbour Lane Capital Management, a private registered investment adviser focused primarily on opportunistic credit and special situation investments, has held the final closing of Arbour Lane Credit Opportunity Fund II at its hard cap of USD1.2 billion in capital commitments, exceeding its initial target of USD750 million.The Fund focuses on

Edison Partners sells fintech firm Clearpool Group to BMO

Growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners has completed the sale of Clearpool Group, a New York-based electronic trading provider and independent agency broker-dealer, to BMO Financial Group. The deal is Edison’s third institutional fintech exit to a strategic buyer this year, which also includes the sale of Scivantage to Refinitiv and Solovis

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Perwyn et al back recipe box company Gousto

Perwyn, BGF, MMC Ventures and Joe Wicks have led a GBP 33 million funding round into recipe box company Gousto. The additional funding takes the total funds raised by Gousto to over GBP130 million in the last eight years. The company aims to have put over 400 million meals on tables

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