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Horizons Ventures leads $40m series-B for Number26
Battery Ventures joined the round, which also saw participation from existing backers
Fintech startup OptioPay secures €7m seed funding
Transaction marks the payment software company's third seed round
Holding periods lengthening again following 2015 drop
Holding periods for assets exited in so far 2016 have climbed following a drop in 2015, but still sit lower than the 2012-2014 average
Caterwings raises €6m round from Holtzbrinck at al.
Backers include German venture capital house Tengelmann Ventures and Rocket Internet
DBAG appoints new industrial partner
DBAG has named Harald Becker-Ehmck as its newest industrial partner
Quilvest sells Acrotec to Castik
Secondary buyout gives the Swiss business Acrotec an enterprise value of CHF 280m
Harbert backs B2X with €6m
Business claims it has grown revenues at an annual 59% rate since 2011
Triton buys Fläkt Woods from Equistone and Sagard
Exit comes nine years after the two GPs bought the company in an SBO
Ex-Deutsche Bank CFO Krause joins Warburg as adviser
Krause is the second former Deutsch Bank executive to go into private equity recently
Delos leads Allecra Therapeutics' €22m round
Startup received funding from Forbion's main fund and its latest co-investment fund
VR sells Ismet to Phoenix Mecano
VR Equitypartner exits the business after acquiring a minority stake in 2011
Ufenau buys Doktorhuus
Ufenau plans to apply a buy-and-build strategy in the Swiss medical practice market
HTGF backs Immersight's six-digit round
Fresh capital will be deployed with the purpose of company growth and technology development
Chronext in €11m series-C round from Partech et al.
Partech also led series-B funding round for Chronext in November 2015
TSG provides growth funding for Canyon Bicycles
Bike manufacturer Canyon aims to enter the US market in spring 2017 following the TSG investment
Intel Capital et al. back ProGlove
Company's concept was developed during Intel's "Make It Wearable" competition in 2014
Heliad backs Muume's CHF 2.2m round
Muume is a platform for digital self-service purchases via smartphone
Rhône sells Eden Springs to Cott for €470m
Purchase price paid by Cott represents 7x EBITDA, or 1.3x revenues
Celonis raises $27.5m series-A from Accel, 83North
Business claims its product can improve operational efficiency by 20-30%
Acton leads Comatch's €4m series-A
Fresh capital will be used for further expansion in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Warburg in €250m EV Inexio capital increase
The capital increase also saw participation from previous shareholder DBAG
3i promotes Salmon to partner
Promotion comes alongside a series of European appointments for the GP
VR Equitypartner backs Ostertag Solutions
Company increased its turnover by 38.5% to €20.5m in the 2014/15 financial year
BayBG backs barbecues retailer Activa Grillküche
The business produces and sells coal- and gas-fired barbecue grills