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

IHS has acquired Syntex Management Systems, an SMH Private Equity Group portfolio company based in Houston, Texas. SMH Private Equity Group is a division of Sanders Morris Harris Group. Syntex, a provider of enterprise risk management software, helps customers manage corporate risks such as employee safety and health programmes.  This

Prime Technology Ventures, a pan-European venture capital firm, has led a USD13m round of new funding in Cint, the company behind the SaaS-based marketplace for market research sample Cint Panel Exchange. Existing owners such as Nordic venture capital firm Creandum also participated in the funding. Cint is headquartered in Stockholm

Prelert has raised USD3.75m in series A funding from Fairhaven Capital Partners and Sierra Ventures. Prelert will use the funds to expand sales of its Incident Cause Analysis software, the first product to automatically find the causal chain of events behind business affecting IT service incidents. "Prelert has proven its

Crescent Financial Partners has purchased a minority stake in IT Trading’s proprietary quantitative trading software for USD3.2m. The software, which has been under development for nearly a decade, employs a statistical arbitrage trading model. “In the finance world, arbitrage is commonly known as the practice of taking advantage of a

Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market buyout and growth equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement for a majority investment in Unite Private Networks, a provider of high-bandwidth, fibre-based communications networks. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Unite Private Networks specialises in providing high-capacity data communications networks

Telepo, an enabler of enterprise communication and collaboration software platforms, has secured EUR10m in its B round funding from Investor Growth Capital and existing investor Accel Partners. It is the biggest software investment this year in the Nordics. Mikael Johnsson, vice president at Investor Growth Capital, will join Telepo’s board