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Frog Capital backs McMakler’s €8.5m round
Piton Capital, Mutschler Ventures and Cavalry Ventures also backed the round
3i’s Atesteo in €70m refinancing
BayernLB, Commerzbank, HSBC and UniCredit act as lead arrangers on the deal
ECM acquires Wieners+Wieners
ECM hopes to take advantage of the consolidation of the language services market
Greycroft backs Splash's $2.5m round
In March, Splash won the founder prize at tech-festival South by Southwest
New Leaf backs Crispr's $38m boost to series-B
Closing comes a week after US regulators approved Crispr's first clinical trial
Equistone acquires Sihl
GP acquires the business from Italian company Diatec, which had owned it since 2003
SHS invests in Tyromotion
SHS's first investment in Austria follows a collaboration agreement with AWS
Highland backs Juniqe’s €14m series-B
Startup will use the funding to expand to Switzerland, France and the Netherlands
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