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Sportvideos365 raises €800,000 from Clever Clover et al.
Sportvideos365 is a tool for amateur sports clubs to upload match highlights online
LDC scores 2.3x money on Orion Media exit
Sale of broadcasting business Orion Media marks the third exit for LDC in 2016
Metropolitan buys part of German Pellets
Metropolitan Equity Partners acquires German Pellets' headquarters in Wismar
BlackRock holds final close for $630m fund
BlackRock's third co-investment fund closes on $630m, $170m less than its predecessor
Martin Strobel new operating partner at Advent
Former Baloise CEO Martin Strobel joins Advent's 70-strong operating partner programme
Deal in Focus: Silverfleet’s sale of Kalle proves viability of SBOs
CD&R becomes the sausage casing producer's fifth institutional owner as GPs are increasingly feeling the need to deploy their dry powder
LDC launches Cardiff office, appoints Dewi Hughes
Dewi Hughes joins from Deloitte, where he led the corporate finance advisory team
Dunedin-backed CET acquires CTS for £3m
CET's revenues and EBITDA have increased by 75% over the past three years
Up to Eleven backs Nuki’s €2m seed round
Startup raised €385,000 via crowd funding platform Kickstarter last year
HTGF backs contaminant detectors business Bentekk
German startup Bentekk is a spinout from Hamburg University of Technology
Savedo raises $5.6m from XAnge et al.
New round brings the total capital raised by Savedo since inception in 2014 to $10m
Silverfleet, Electra sell sausage casing maker Kalle to CD&R
CD&R bought the business for around €500m, equating to a 9-10x EBITDA multiple
Tengelmann and IBB exit 42reports to Dilax Intelcom
VR Equitypartner and Omos Equity bought a majority stake in Dilax in early 2015
Tado raises €20m from Inven Capital
The startup raised €15.2m from Siemens, Statkraft and other backers in October 2015
LaunchPad raises £2m series-A from Sussex Place et al.
London-based LaunchPad will use the funding to improve its HR analytics offering
In Profile: HgCapital
Following an active start to the year, unquote" delves into the firm's sector-focus-approach and looks at its portfolio highlights
Former German politician Guttenberg joins Mountain Partners
Former minister of defence joins the Swiss venture capital firm's supervisory board
HTGF backs Se M Labs' €780,000 seed round
MBG Baden-Württemberg and an unnamed business angel invested alongside HTGF
Heliad appoints Thomas Hanke as CEO
Thomas Hanke is named as new CEO, while Gunter Greiner is promoted to investment director
Armada Interactive raises $3m from Initial Capital et al.
Other backers include Index Ventures, ProFounders Capital, Backed and Reaktor Ventures
HTGF and MBG recommit to Eyefactive
Funding comes after business launched app platform for interactive signage software
Konux raises $7.5m from US VCs
Munich-based Konux produces sensor solutions for industrial companies, including Deutsche Bahn
Linklaters appoints new partners
PE-focused Will Aitken-Davies and Jann Jetter are promoted to partners
Electra appoints Neil Johnson as chair
Johnson replaces Roger Yates, who stepped down following Bramson's board appointment