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Dream Games, a Turkey-based studio behind the hit mobile game Royal Match, has become one of the most valuable private mobile gaming companies in the world after raising USD255 million from investors at a USD2.75 billion valuation – representing a doubling of the company’s value in six months. The Series C – the company’s third venture round in the past year – was led by Index Ventures, which has supported Dream Games since Series A. Makers Fund, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, IVP, Kora and Balderton Capital also participated in the round. The amount raised brings the total amount
Clockwise, a ‘Time Orchestration’ platform that helps teams free up their workdays, has raised USD45 million in a Series C funding round led by Coatue. Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Greylock Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round which brings the company’s total funding raised to date to USD76 million. Clockwise will use this investment to advance its AI technology and bring this new way of working to more people worldwide. The company is also growing its team to support this mission, with more than 25 open positions and another 100 openings planned in 2022. Placing
The Riverside Company has invested in Transplant Connect (TC), whose iTransplantSM software platform facilitates the donation, transplantation and research of human biologics (including organs, tissues, corneas and birth tissue). TC is an add-on investment to Riverside’s platform InVita Healthcare Technologies (InVita), which delivers supply chain software solutions to complex medical environments. Riverside has invested in more than 360 platform and add-on companies in these sectors and possesses a team of industry experts who understand how to grow healthcare companies around the globe. TC is InVita’s third add-on, following Champion Healthcare Technologies in May 2019 and STACS DNA in May 2021.
Appcues has raised USD32.1 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by NewSpring. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s rapid product innovation and scale its operations globally.  Columbia Partners also participated in the round, along with existing investors Sierra Ventures and Accomplice. This fundraising brings Appcues’ total funding to USD47.9 million to date.
FLX Distribution – a Resource and Asset Management Platform (RAMP) for asset and wealth managers that provides modular-based front office solutions with on-demand resources, services, and investments – has partnered with Oasis, a Paychex company, focused on offering Professional Employer Organisation (PEO) solutions to its members. Solving familiar HR challenges including high costs, limited options, complexities, and time-consuming personnel management, FLX is now delivering quality, efficient, and cost-effective solutions through this FLX-sponsored PEO.    Oasis is one of the leading Professional Employer Organisations (PEO) in the US, providing Human Resource Administration, Employee Benefits, Healthcare Reform (ACA), Payroll Administration and Risk
Hastings Equity Partners (Hastings) portfolio company, MKD Electric (MKD), a full-service industrial automation and electrical service platform, has invested in XSTele.com (XS Telecom).
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has acquired Chemisphere Corp (Chemisphere), a specialty solvent blender and chemical distributor. Chemisphere was acquired from its founder, Bob Schwent, and is a highly complementary business to Chemsolv, acquired by OpenGate Capital earlier this month. Combined, the two businesses form a strong platform, poised for organic growth and future add-on acquisitions. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.    The combination of Chemisphere with Chemsolv creates a diversified platform spanning the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, with a balanced product offering of blended and non-blended chemicals, and a diversified customer base
Grafine Partners and Stanley Capital have formed a significant strategic partnership combining Stanley’s research and technology-driven approach to private equity with Grafine’s ability to meet the evolving needs of sophisticated institutional investors to grow a major new platform in the European private equity landscape. Stanley Capital is an independent mid-market investment firm focused on growing sustainable businesses in Healthcare, Technology and Resource Efficiency sectors across Europe and the US. The firm was founded by Simon Cottle, James Brooks and Patrick Hargutt, a team that has a proven track record of actively delivering value creation, investing in and managing transactions with
Permiso.io, a Palo Alto-based startup that provides cloud identity detection and response for cloud infrastructures, has completed a USD10 million seed funding round. The round was led by Point72 Ventures and included Foundation Capital, Work-Bench, 11.2 Capital, Rain Capital, as well as numerous security industry leaders such as: Jason Chan, former VP of Information Security at Netflix; Talha Tariq, Chief Security Officer at Hashicorp; Travis McPeak, Head of Product Security at Databricks; Tyler Shields, CMO at JupiterOne; and Brandon Dixon, Founder of PassiveTotal.   With the USD10 million seed round, Permiso intends to continue scaling its engineering team, expanding its
Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a private equity firm that specialises in investments in industrial growth and healthcare companies, has announced that it has acquired Eckhart Holdings, Inc. (Eckhart), an automation solutions provider from LFM Capital. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Eckhart’s advanced engineering, design, simulation, and integration services, along with proprietary tooling and other automation and robotics systems, support customers at critical points in the automation value chain.  Eckhart partners with blue-chip customers to design and implement automation solutions that solve complex problems and improve accuracy and efficiency in a number of attractive end markets, including ecommerce,

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