KKR has led a $75 million series B funding round in Digital Diagnostics, a specialist in AI healthcare diagnosis. Investors including Cedar Pine, Kinderhook, 8VC, Optum Ventures, OSF Ventures and the University of Iowa also took part in the round. The latest funding has almost doubled the company’s total outside capital raised to $130 million. In January, KKR closed its Health Care Strategic Growth Fund II on $4 billion, almost three-times bigger that it’s previous healthcare fund which closed with $1.45bn in capital commitments.

Cologne-based HR tech startup CATCH has closed a seven-figure financing round. The investment will help the founders, Marco Verhoeven and Justin Bous, to further expand and market their recruiting platform “Catch Talents”. CATCH sets out to automate recruiting for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany and Europe and thus make it more efficient. In addition to the lead investor TechVision Fund (TVF) NRW.BANK and Christian Greb, business angel and co-founder of the AI company PRECIRE, participated in the financing round. Catch Talents SaaS recruiting software fully automates candidate search and pre-qualification processes. It finds suitable, actively searching talent by

Sango Capital (Sango) and Tana Africa Capital (Tana) have made a minority investment in Sundry Markets Limited, one of Nigeria’s fastest growing modern grocery retailers. The transaction marks a partial realisation of the capital invested in the Company by Sango through its Fund I (Sango Fund I), and a new investment by Sango through its Fund III (Sango Fund III) and by Tana Africa Capital through its second Fund (TAC II).  Established in 2015, Sundry Markets operates the Marketsquare brand of supermarkets and convenience stores, providing a superior shopping experience to customers and a one-stop destination for prepared and packaged

Rivonia Road Capital, a global alternative asset manager, focused on credit for high-growth companies, has provided Tandym with $50 million in debt financing, and made an equity investment in Tandym’s most recent fundraise.

LDC has exited its minority investment in managed IT and cyber services provider Littlefish, to Bowmark Capital following a three-year partnership. The mid-market private equity firm backed the management team at Littlefish in April 2019 with a minority investment to support the fast growth business. Over the last three years, the business has almost doubled revenues from £18.6 million to £36.4 million in its latest financial year. Founded in 2003, Littlefish provides a comprehensive range of managed IT, cyber security, cloud and IT consultancy services to over 200 customers across both the private and public sectors.  Littlefish’s services are delivered

Huron Capital (Huron), a middle-market private equity firm has sold its majority interest in Pueblo Mechanical & Controls (Pueblo), a commercial HVAC and plumbing services company, to OMERS Private Equity (OMERS). Pueblo is a provider of HVAC and plumbing installation, maintenance, retrofit and repair services to customers in multiple end markets, including education, municipal, industrial, commercial and healthcare. Since Huron’s initial investment in 2017, Pueblo has made significant investments in people, technology, and corporate infrastructure, including the development of a deliberate regionally focused M&A program. Over the past several years, Pueblo experienced strong organic growth and completed 16 acquisition.

thirdweb, a technology platform for building NFT and Web3 apps, has closed a $24 million Series A funding at a $160 million valuation, led by Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Shopify and Polygon. thirdweb will use the funding to accelerate platform development to meet increasing demand, add support for additional blockchains and grow the user base by onboarding hundreds of thousands of new brands, individuals and creators, driving mainstream adoption of Web3.  Founded in 2021 by Steven Bartlett and Furqan Rydhan with a seed funding round of $5 million, from 20-plus industry entrepreneurs including Gary Vaynerchuck and Mark Cuban, thirdweb is

Trilon Group (Trilon), a family of infrastructure consulting businesses, has acquired Alta Planning + Design (Alta), an active mobility and sustainability consulting firm. Trilon Group launched in January 2022 and is backed by Alpine Investors, a people-driven private equity firm committed to building enduring businesses. Alta is Trilon’s seventh investment with previous investments including MSG, RKA, CPH, Waggoner Engineering, DRMP and ESI Consultants. With the addition of Alta, the Trilon Group’s annual revenue exceeds $215 million, which would have ranked Trilon at No90 on Engineering News Record’s (ENR) 2022 Top 500 Design Firms based on the publicly available selection criteria.

Capital on Tap has secured a £200 million funding facility with JP Morgan and Triple Point to support UK small businesses. The funding will help small businesses access credit at a time when the UK is anticipating a recession and facing historic inflation rates.

Thoma Bravo is closing in on a deal to acquire aerial imagery company Nearmap Ltd for AUD1.06 billion ($728.5 million), according to a report by Reuters. The AUD2.10-per-share offer submitted last month represents a premium of nearly 39% to the stock’s closing price on 12 Aug, a day before the offer was disclosed.  Shares of Nearmap jumped 5.9% to AUD2.08, their highest level since November 2021, after news of the all-cash deal broke. The company’s shares have slumped by more than half since hitting a peak in 2019. Thoma Bravo, a software investor with assets under management of more than