Venture capital firms help payment processor Fivestart to $52.5m Series D investment round
Payment processing platform Fivestars has reportedly raised $52.5m in its Series D round of debt and equity.
Payment processing platform Fivestars has reportedly raised $52.5m in its Series D round of debt and equity.
Lower mid-market private equity house LLR Partners has hauled in $1.8bn for its sixth flagship fundraise, 50% more than it collected for Fund V just two years ago.
True Ventures has powered on with its hectic fundraising pace by hauling in $840m across two new investment vehicles.
Business software-focused investment house OpenView Venture Partners has hit a $450m hard cap close for its sixth fund.
Boldstart Ventures is back in the fundraising market targeting its biggest-ever total through the launch of its fifth flagship investment vehicle.
Isomer Capital has revealed a €250m-target for its second flagship fund of funds vehicle eyeing stakes in high-performing European venture capital managers.
I Squared Capital Partners has agreed the $2.15bn takeover of the infrastructure division of cloud networking business GTT Communications.
EQT has brought in former Microsoft investment exec Marc Brown to head up its new growth investment strategy.
Sun European Partners has agreed to by CNC Holding, a producer and supplier of substrate for mushroom cultivation.
Amadeus Capital Partners has led a £1.4m seed financing round for visual data security and privacy business Pimloc.
Global private markets investor Partners Group has agreed to buy a "significant" equity stake in European electronic toll collection business Telepass to value the company at more than €2bn.
Thomas H Lee Partners' former alternative credit business has closed its first fund since being bought by First Eagle Investment Management last December.
Open source management company FOSSA has closed its Series B round on $23.2m to support the release of its Security Management service. The capital was supplied by Bain Capital Ventures, Canvas Ventures and Costanoa Ventures.
Extend, a startup which says it has reinvented the extended warranty process, has closed its Series B on $40m.
The billionaire founder of private equity major Vista Equity Partners, Robert Smith, has avoided indictment for tax fraud by the US Department of Justice after agreeing to pay $139m and to co-operate with a government
Tech-focused private equity house Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has made a strategic investment in GovernmentCIO, a provider of high-end tech and digital solutions to the US federal health IT services market.
Blackstone has scored a hefty return by agreeing the $14.6bn sale of US life science office buildings major BioMed Realty.
Private equity-backed hospital clinical and business software specialist Surgical Information Systems has picked up a majority investment from tech-focused buyout house Accel-KKR.
Private wealth managers need to urgently increase their use of technology or risk being left behind by competitors, research from fintech firm Delio suggests.
Global investment giant Ardian has sold electronic access, ticketing and billing systems provider Gantner Electronic Austria to trade buyer Salto Systems.
