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Merck Group has topped up its strategic venture capital fund MS Ventures with an additional €60m commitment and created an investment affiliate to specifically manage the vehicle.
DN Capital, IBB, Perikles Ventures and local angel investors have provided German footwear business Scarosso with a series-A round of funding.
Iris Capital and Elaia Partners have injected €1.3m into Paris-based ad-exchange adviser and analysis platform provider Adomik.
Ventech and previous backer Isai have provided French online advertising agency Sticky Ads TV with €3.1m of growth capital.
CDC Entreprises, investing via the state-backed FSN PME vehicle, has led a $13m series-C funding round for French software firm BonitaSoft.
Atmosphere Bars and Clubs, a UK-based portfolio company of Sun European Partners, has gone into administration.
GMT Communications Partners and Veronis Suhler Stevenson have bought a majority stake in IT-Ernity from Nedvest Capital.
UK-based NBGI Private Equity has announced the appointment of Tim Kelly – who has previously worked for Hovis, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Guinness Bass Import – as a senior adviser.
Earlybird Venture Capital, 500 Startups, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and two angel investors have backed product comparison platform Versus IO in a $2.8m series-A funding round.
Belgian investor Sofina has led a €25m funding round for Spanish clothing sales club Privalia Venta Directa.
AnaCap Financial Partners has sold Cabot Credit Management (CCM) to JC Flowers in a secondary buyout worth a reported £800m.
BlackFin Capital Partners has invested in finanzen.de AG, taking a majority stake in the business.
HIG Europe has completed its first investment in the Nordic region with the acquisition of consumer loan broker Freedom Finance Nordic.
Bayside Capital and owner LBO France have respectively injected €45m of new debt and an equal amount of fresh equity into the refinancing of Belgian concrete manufacturer Consolis.
Inventure and Nexit Ventures have reinvested in Finnish user interface software developer Rightware, which has closed its $5.2m series-B funding round.
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