Deals
Argos-backed Valco buys Guichon amid capital reshuffle
Guichon purchase was followed by entrance of FDEN as a minority shareholder
BGF leads £15.3m funding round for Olive Communications
Barclays provided £5.25m in fresh debt funding, alongside BGF's £10m growth capital injection
b-to-v backs Seven Senders
b-to-v and two business angels joined in Seven Senders' seven-digit funding round
Qualityfry raises €1m from Kereon et al.
Second deal to bring together Spanish VC duo Kereon and Caixa Capital Risc in recent months
PE-backed Oceanet merges with NBS
Capital Croissance steps in as new investor via its €75m, 40%-invested Cairn Capital I fund
Invitalia Ventures invests €1.5m in Italian startup D-Eye
Italia Venture I fund has announced its first investment in the Italian venture segment
Balderton leads $2.75m seed round for Aircall
Latest investment to be announced by VC during active start to 2016
Deal in Focus: IK joins Nordic IT sector gold rush with TeleComputing deal
An in-depth look at IK's acquisition of Norwegian IT services and outsourcing company TeleComputing
Omnes and Partech in €1.2m round for MesDocteurs
Online healthcare counselling service to double web marketing team and launch Android app
A Plus in capital increase for PE-backed Locabri
Prior involvement of GP’s Bled with business was key to landing all-equity deal
US investor JMI backs Irish software developer CoreHR
US investor JMI Equity, which targets software and services investments, will support CoreHR's expansion
Investcorp in €1bn exit of Icopal to GAF
Danish roofing materials maker had been an IPO candidate before the trade sale to GAF materialised
Gores sells Unify to Atos for €366m
The transaction was leveraged with €48m, with Unify's enterprise value standing at €590m
Intel Capital, CTV invest $9m in MariaDB
Both US venture firms are existing investors in the Finnish SQL products developer
Sequoia’s Plain Vanilla raises $7.5m from Glu
San Francisco-based games developer will invest up to $7.5m in promissory convertible loans
Palatine sells Selection for £34.8m
Palatine backed Selection's £15m MBO in December 2011, investing via its first fund
Foresight makes further investment in AppInstitute
Foresight initially invested £500,000 in the SaaS business in 2014
Activa creates Alliance Etiquettes group with three buyouts
Platform’s enterprise value falls within €30-40m range
Idinvest and Ventech in €6.6m series-A for Botify
Deal is Idinvest's second foray in the marketing software segment within the past month
Deal in Focus: Aksia launches Italian call centre platform
A look back on Aksia's dual acquisition of Italian call centre operators Contacta and Visiant
Vasopharm raises €20m from Entrepreneurs Fund et al.
Vasopharm has raised €20m from Entrepreneurs Fund, Heidelberg Capital and other backers
Siparex sells Silfox stake to Isatis
Siparex will re-invest a minor amount of equity and mezzanine, according to an unquote" source
LitCapital sells Putoksnis stake to chairman Stulpinas
Lithuanian GP exits its stake in the struggling manufacturer of PET packaging to its majority shareholder
Afinum invests in Schlote
Schlote marks 11th and last investment by Afinum's growth capital fund, which closed in 2011