StarVest Partners, a venture capital firm investing in technology-enabled business services companies throughout the US, has announced the close of its oversubscribed USD244m Fund II.

Pangborn, a member of the Atlas Holdings group of businesses, has purchased the second-largest wheel blast and surface preparation equipment provider in Europe, known as the Othello Gro

Mid Europa Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the Slovenian cable and broadband operator UPC Slovenia from Liberty Global.

Horwath Capital China and China First Capital, two international financial services firms active in China, have announced a strategic partnership to provide integrated financial service

Ashmore Global Opportunities has announced that shareholders have voted against the resolution to wind up the company.

In lockstep with the pullback seen in the US, venture capitalists invested 50 per cent less capital in the international markets during in the first quarter of 2009, according to Dow Jo

Powerit Solutions, a provider of intelligent energy management and efficiency systems, has announced USD6m in new funding from Siemens Venture Capital and ArcelorMittal’s Clean Technolo

Despite its fifth consecutive decline, quarterly sales of privately owned UK mid-market companies fell only marginally in quarter one 2009, according to BDO Stoy Hayward’s Private Compa

Constellation Growth Capital, a growth equity investor in the convergence of media, communications and technology, has become part of Highbridge Capital Management’s principal investmen