High Street Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has selected Navatar Private Equity Cloud to manage its fundraising, deal flow, portfolio and capital calls/distributions. Navatar Private Equity runs in salesforce.com’s cloud. Its flexible reporting engine can be used by non-technical staff to generate reports. Navatar Group provides all implementation services,

Coller Capital, an investor in private equity secondaries, has launched an iPhone App allowing investors to make instant comparisons of the rate of return offered by different investment opportunities. The Coller IRR App is available for download free from the Apple App Store or iPhone. The App, a new incarnation

Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, has invested USD34m into Welocalize, which specialises in content translation, localisation and internationalisation of web based content. Welocalize was founded in 1997 and is based in Frederick, Maryland.  With over 400 employees in nine offices located in the US, Ireland, Germany, China and

Buddy Media, a Facebook management system for advertisers, has raised USD23m in series C funding to fuel its growth. Institutional Venture Partners led the new round and was joined by existing Buddy Media investors including Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners and Bay Partners.   The Buddy Media investment is the first

SBI Ven Capital has selected Imagine Software’s ASP service, Derivatives.com, for risk and portfolio management. SBI Ven Capital, a Singapore subsidiary of Japan-based SBI Holdings, is a private equity firm providing growth capital to companies in the mid-market sector in the Asia Pacific region. Its adoption of Imagine includes both

Kana Software, a provider of software solutions for service experience management backed by Accel-KKR, has entered into a definite agreement to acquire Lagan Technologies, a provider of government to citizen technology. Lagan is being sold by DFJ Esprit, which was the largest shareholder in the company. The transaction will complement

Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, has completed the acquisition of LANDesk Software from Emerson. LANDesk specialises in systems lifecycle management, endpoint security and IT service management. Financial details were not disclosed. Steve Daly, formerly the executive vice president and general manager of LANDesk, has been named the chief

Northern Trust has launched a portfolio reporting and monitoring solution for private equity fund of funds managers, which enables them to track their fund of funds holdings and valuations right through to portfolio company level.  “Detailed tracking of underlying investments by a private equity fund of funds manager can be