Janrain, the leading provider of social identity management solutions for businesses, thas closed USD15.5 million in financing. Emergence Capital Partners led the round, and is joined by previous investors Anthem Venture Partners, DFJ Frontier, RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and founder Larry Drebes with participation from Square 1 Bank.   The investment will be used to add resources and employees across all existing functional teams and further support the accelerated growth the company is experiencing. Janrain provides SaaS solutions that help organisations increase acquisition and engagement with online users by leveraging the user’s social profile. These solutions, including social login, sharing

LLR Partners (LLR) has made a USD24 million investment in VectorLearning, a leading online continuing education platform, to support the Company’s continued growth and acquisitions. The investment in VectorLearning, which operates under the brands RedVector and Care2Learn, is LLR’s second education investment within the past 12 months and its fourth overall. Renowned for its superior online education solutions tailored to post-acute healthcare and design and construction professionals, VectorLearning will benefit from LLR Partners’ unique investment expertise in education and healthcare to build upon its success in the eLearning market. The Company will use this capital to drive organic growth in

Vringo, a provider of software platforms for mobile social and video applications, has closed a private placement of convertible notes in the aggregate amount of USD2.5 million primarily to leading venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures. The convertible notes bear interest at the rate of 1.25% per annum and mature on January 1, 2012. Upon the closing of a subsequent financing by the company, the convertible notes will automatically convert into the same securities as the subsequent financing except that the conversion price for the convertible notes will be equal to the lower of: (i) today’s closing price

Redkite Financial Markets, a specialist in real-time financial markets surveillance solutions, has raised a Series A investment from DFJ Esprit, a leading European venture firm with just under USD900 million under management. The investment will accelerate the growth of the firm whose next-generation solution enables the financial services sector to ensure compliance to global regulatory initiatives that demand real-time trade monitoring.   Redkite Financial Markets was established in 2009. Its flagship product, Redeye, equips financial institutions with the tools and knowledge to monitor, analyse and act on trading conditions in real-time, enabling them to detect suspicious transactions and trading behaviours

LogMeIn, Inc, a provider of cloud-based connectivity solutions, has completed the acquisition of the Pachube service (www.pachube.com) and substantially all other assets of Connected Environments Ltd.    Pachube (pronounced “Patch Bay”) is a web-based service for connecting people and devices to the Internet of Things – a network of sensor-enabled devices publishing and sharing data that some predict will exceed 50 billion devices worldwide by the next decade. This acquisition furthers LogMeIn’s investment in highly scalable connectivity and data sharing platforms, and extends its reach beyond computers, smartphones and tablets to potentially all Internet-connectable devices.   “We believe the volume of

Amor Group, a business technology company backed by Growth Capital Partners (GCP), has made a strategic acquisition of FS Walker Hughes, a Manchester based specialist software business focused on the airport sector. Amor provides products and services to the energy, transport and public sectors. This acquisition has increased employee numbers by 5% to 460 and forecast revenues for 2011 to GBP40 million. It forms part of Amor’s strategy to increase revenues to GBP70million by 2013 organically and via acquisition, as well as enhancing the firms existing software products. FSW’s core product is an Airport Operational Database (AODB) called Chroma. The