Deals
ING Ventures leads €1.3m series-A for Axyon AI
Investment also sees participation from Italian bank UniCredit and several angel investors
Premium sells ATBB to trade
Sale ends a five-year holding period for Premium, which acquired the business on deal-by-deal basis
Main Capital acquires strategic stake in Cleversoft
Regulation tech company plans to expand through a buy-and-build strategy as well as organic growth
Phoenix's Bridge Leisure bolts on Bowland Fell
Holiday park operator has trebled its number of sites since being acquired by the GP four years ago
Mayfair leads £35m round for Ultrahaptics
Deal for the touch-related ultrasound company is the final investment from the GP's maiden fund
Dunedin invests in Incremental Group
Dunedin will work with the existing management team to support the firm's organic growth
Mobeus leads £2.2m series-A for Kudos
Company will use the fresh capital to expand its suite of services and further improve its impact
Cross buys Boes Group
Cross is currently investing from its second buyout fund, which closed on CHF 100m in August 2017
Redmile leads €50m series-C for PE-backed Aprea
Karolinska Development, 5AM Ventures, Versant Ventures and HealthCap also take part in the round
Aurelius partially sells embattled Nestor to trade buyer CRG
Deal comes weeks after a regulator warned that the homecare provider could cease trading
Bayern Kapital backs €13m series-A for Fineway
VC firm also took part in the first tranche of the series-A, which closed on €7m in November 2017
Equistone's Group of Butchers buys Gmyrek
Acquisition follows the bolt-on of Hartmann in October, another German meat producer
Waterland-backed Atos bolts on MediaPark Klinik
Deal will allow Atos to enhance its sports medicine and specialised orthopaedic surgery expertise
Average holding period stays high as quick exits lag
Lower proportion of deals are being exited within three years, and more after seven years
Ukraine-based Horizon Capital's Rozetka bolts on Evo
E-commerce specialist Rozetka, owned by Horizon Capital since 2015, bolts on Evo
Horizon's Bellrock bolts-on Naples Group
Naples Group will be Bellrock's 10th acquisition completed in the last 26 months
Centurion Private Equity backs Abbassalebollette
Sponsor is deploying capital from its Centurion Private Equity Opportunities fund
Main Capital's GoConnectIT bolts on Geodan van den Berg
GP acquired the supplier of specialist software for the infrastructure sector last year
Xenon's Tecnopool bolts on Logiudice Forni, Mimac Italia
Deals are part of the GP's strategy to create a pool of companies specialising in the bakery sector
Creadev et al. inject €40m in InnovaFeed
Investors back InnovaFeed, a biotech company producing insect-based protein flour
US-based Indigo Partners invests in struggling airline Wow
Wow has faced financial difficulties in recent months and has cut four aircraft from its fleet
Gilde buys Gundlach Automotive Corporation
Company's management team has invested alongside Gilde for a minority stake in the business
EQVenture backs $20m round for USound
Fresh capital will be used to support the global roll-out of USound's micro speakers
Innogest leads €1.5m round for MioAssicuratore
Italian venture fund and previous backer Pi Campus also takes part in the investment