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Vance Street Capital has formed Spectra A&D Holdings to acquire and merge three aerospace and defense technology companies. The three acquired businesses include Las Cruces, New Mexico-based Calculex; and Alpharetta, Georgia-based Argon Corporation and FDS
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Prelude Growth Partners, an investor in consumer brands, has closed Prelude Growth Partners II LP at its hard cap of $250 million. The firm’s second fund was oversubscribed and was raised in just four months.
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Esports-focused venture capital firm Hiro Capital has invested €15m in video game studios Snowprint, Double Loop Games and Happy Volcano, based in Stockholm, San Fransisco and Leuven, Belgium, respectively.
Italian venture capital house P101 has invested €6m in a series-B financing round for Madrid-based car rental platform Bipi Mobility.
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New York City startup scene-focused Primary Venture Partners has pulled in $200m of fresh capital through a pair of fundraises.
Lightbank, the venture capital firm co-founded by Groupon billionaire Eric Lefkofsky, has doubled its assets under management through a $180m final close of its second fund.
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Venture capital investors have sold their stakes in Germany-based car rental platform Cluno to its UK-based online car dealer, Cazoo.
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