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SoftBank ups stake in PolicyBazaar despite the InsurTech’s CEO claiming the previous investment was a “mistake”

Insurance marketplace PolicyBazaar has reportedly raised a further $130m from SoftBank, despite the chief executive believing the previous expansion efforts led by the mega investor were a "mistake."

Concirrus bags new VC investment just months after closing Series B round

Concirrus, an insurance software developer, has raised another $6m in funding, hot on the heels of its recent $20m Series B round.

Silver Lake buys up French cloud payroll, HR software business Silae from founders

Tech-focused private equity major Silver Lake has agreed to buy French cloud-based payroll and HR software business Silae from the company's founding shareholders.

Warren Sees Green in Arborist Platform

Warren Equity has closed two acquisitions in the arborist services sector with the buys of Gunnison Tree Services and New Urban Forestry. Gunnison Tree Services is a provider of tree and vegetation management services to

MKH Consolidating Car Wash Sector

MKH Capital Partners has hired Thomas Welter to lead Clean Streak Ventures, its express car wash platform company. Orlando-headquartered Clean Streak was founded by MKH in November 2019 and operates ten locations in Florida. The

HKW Closes Third Fresh Direct Add-On

Fresh Direct Produce, a distributor of fresh, ethnic, tropical, organic, and specialty produce and a portfolio company of HKW, has acquired Mike and Mike’s Organics. Mike and Mike’s is a non-grower distributor of organic fruits

Charlesbank’s New Credit Fund Hits Hard Cap

Charlesbank Capital Partners has held a $700 million, oversubscribed, and hard cap closing of Charlesbank Credit Opportunities Fund II LP. The new fund’s original target was $500 million. Fund II has more than 30 institutional

Silver Lake to acquire French HR software provider

Based in Aix-en-Provence, Silae was founded in 2010 and offers cloud-based payroll and HR software to more than 550,000 businesses in France

Silver Lake buys HR software Silae

Silver Lake has wholly acquired France-based payroll and HR software business Silae in its first European acquisition of 2020.

S7V and Presight back Penta’s €4m series-B extension

S7V and Presight Capital have backed a €4m extension to business banking startup Penta's series-B funding round, bringing its series-B total to €22.5m.

Emeram’s Matrix24 acquires FireScope

Workplace management software company Matrix24, a portfolio company of Emeram Capital Partners, has acquired US-based asset intelligence and service management software company FireScope.

China markets round-up: July trade surplus surprises, PBoC reviews monetary policy, most Covid-19 treasury bond proceeds allocated

In this round up, China records a trade surplus in July that exceeds expectations by a large margin, the central bank reviews the monetary policy from the second quarter and sets a direction for the

China policy round-up: Trade deal implementation to be reviewed, foreign minister warns of ‘new Cold War’, Trump hits Wechat, Tiktok with executive orders

In this round-up, China and the US will examine the progress made from the phase one trade deal, the Chinese foreign minister says a ‘new Cold War’ is not what Beijing wants, and a pair

John Varley pressed in court to justify ‘fantastic’ Qatari fees

The bank’s former chief executive repeatedly referenced the promise of ‘Project Tinbac’

Platinum Enters Digital Cinema Sector

Platinum Equity has acquired the digital film distribution business of Deluxe Entertainment in partnership with the company’s former CEO Cyril Drabinsky. Deluxe was founded in 1915 as a film processing lab within Fox Film Corporation.

Oaktree’s Watco Buys Short Lines from Dow

Watco Companies, a portfolio company of Oaktree Capital, has agreed to acquire the short line rail assets and related equipment of six North American manufacturing sites from Dow Chemical. Watco is a provider of transportation

New Principal at HCAP

San Diego-headquartered HCAP Partners has promoted Bhairvee Shavdia to principal. Ms. Shavdia joined HCAP Partners in 2015 and has been active in building and implementing the firm’s impact investing methodology that supports the creation of

Hg buys majority stake in German software provider F24

The deal was made via Hg's £575m fund, which is aiming to help accelerate F24’s international growth through a buy-and-build strategy

ETF leads €7m round for Basemark

Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) has led a €7m funding round for Basemark, a Helsinki-based software company specialising in autonomous driving vehicle software.

Providence-backed Imaweb-IDF bolts on Serinfer

Imaweb-IDF Group, a customer relationship management specialist backed by Providence Equity Partners, has acquired software developer Serinfer Servicios Informáticos, which is controlled by Spanish family holding company Alvariño Group.

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