Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active investors in growing businesses, has made a profitable exit from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software provider ProspectSoft through a sale to trade acquirer The Access Group.

Global infrastructure investment manager I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III, is to acquire VLS Environmental Solutions (VLS) from Aurora Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm.

Revelstoke Capital Partners portfolio company Fast Pace Health (Fast Pace) has invested in First Care Clinics (First Care) to expand its clinical footprint and increase access to care for underserved rural populations. The combination results in a multi-specialty provider of rural healthcare and value-based care population health management services through a network of over 200 clinics serving over three million annual patient visits across the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and Alabama.  Revelstoke focuses on investing in, and growing, healthcare services companies. First Care clinics will be rebranded as Fast Pace in the upcoming months and the leadership

Crunchbase, a prospecting platform powered by best-in-class proprietary data, has secured $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by Alignment Growth. Existing Crunchbase investors including OMERS Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Emergence also participated in the round. As part of teh fund raising, Alex Iosilevich, Partner at Alignment Growth, is to join the Crunchbase board of directors. Crunchbase’s account-based prospecting software enables prospectors—in sales, recruiting, business development, and finance—to find and engage with qualified accounts, while simultaneously creating awareness for companies that want to be discovered. Crunchbase attracts more than 75 million unique visitors annually and recently surpassed

Charles has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce Ventures to become Europe’s leading conversational commerce as a service platform. Accel and HV Capital, who led the company’s seed round in 2021, also participated. Charles is an all-in-one, conversational-first operating system that is bringing everything associated with ecommerce into WhatsApp and other chat apps. The company enables businesses to sell products, send newsletters and support customers with ongoing personalisation and deep system integration via chat. With the new funding round, Charles is further expanding its operations from Germany into key European markets and targeting larger enterprise

Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to acquire Green Street, a provider of commercial real estate intelligence and analytics. Green Street’s current majority owner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the technology and healthcare industries, will retain a minority position in the business. Green Street Chief Executive Officer Jeffry Stuek, Jr, along with the senior leadership team, will continue leading the company.  Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022 pending customary regulatory approval, have not been disclosed.

Veremark, a pre-employment screening and verified career credentials firm, has raised a further $8.5 million in an equity funding round led by new US venture capital investor Stage 2 Capital, just nine months after its initial $2.8 million seed round. Samaipata, a Pan-European venture capital firm also joined the round as a new investor, and several existing investors Triple Point Ventures, ACF Investors, Vulpes, and SOV provided follow-on investments, bringing the company’s total funding to $12.3 million. Veremark aims to simplify the process of checking the claims and credentials of prospective employees based around the world through its digital platform.

RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird), along with private markets investment firm StepStone Group, is to acquire a majority stake in Talent Systems, a casting software and talent marketplace for the entertainment industry. Talent Systems was formed by Co-CEOs Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin and in 2021 managed over 50,000 projects and more than two million auditions, facilitating the effective discovery, auditioning and hiring of talent across film, television, commercials, theatre and digital productions.  Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.    With the deepest pool of professional talent and project roles, Talent Systems delivers valuable solutions to all constituents

OMERS Private Equity is to acquire Bionic (Bionic), a provider of essential energy, insurance, finance and connectivity services to UK small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) from ECI Partners and its founders. OMERS Private Equity will take a majority stake in the Company, with the management team, led by Paul Galligan, CEO of Bionic, and ECI Partners and the founders investing alongside OMERS. OMERS Private Equity will provide resources and expertise to help drive the Company’s organic growth as well as further accelerate its strategic expansion through M&A. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close by Q3, subject to customary

The Finance Durham Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has supported local business, Conduit Construction Network Ltd (CCN), with a £600,000 funding package. The investment has enabled the business to substantially scale-up its operations and relocate to a new 54,500 sq ft facility in Belmont Industrial Estate, creating 30 new jobs in County Durham. CCN manufactures high-quality door sets and screens for the commercial, education and healthcare sectors.  The Durham move adds significant capacity and brings operational benefits with a plan to increase production and sales significantly. Alongside relocation,