DACH
SVP bolsters Europe advisory council with Lloyds’ Guthrie
Firm closed Special Situations III fund in December 2014
Target Partners backs Dedrone with €2.7m
Round to fund development of Drone Tracker system
Phenomen leads $16m round for Smava
Peer-to-peer lending platform to invest in credit-scoring technology
IK sells SportGroup to Equistone
Equistone will be third private equity owner of German group
Investment AB Kinnevik leads €30m Westwing series-E
Home and living store has raised €209m over five funding rounds
HgCapital backs Eucon
GP invested from software- and tech-focused Mercury Fund
Lakestar injects $3.5m into Marley Spoon
Series-A extension follows €4m round in November last year
German debt market: a changing landscape
German refinancings are increasingly turning to alternative lenders
HTGF et al. exit bab.la to Oxford University Press
HTGF first invested in bab.la in 2008
Ambienta acquires €20m Oskar Nolte stake
Deal marks Italian GP's first German investment
Mountain Cleantech backs Ascon Resource Management
Waste management and recycling company operates across Germany
Sobera acquires Polytechnos portfolio
Assets include Nanotron, Panoratio and Capella
Capiton acquires minority stake in Trioptics
Company's founder continues to hold majority stake
Lindsay Goldberg Vogel acquires VDM Group from ThyssenKrupp
ThyssenKrupp writes down asset by €100m
Valar Ventures leads $18m EyeEm series-B
Photo-sharing app previously raised $10m over two rounds
Capnamic et al. inject €4m into Cobi
Smartbike system previously raised $400,000 via crowdfunding
Wheb Partners acquires Dolan and European Carbon Fiber
Companies share management team and headquarters
Vesalius Biocapital leads €6.2m Omeicos series-A
High-Tech Gründerfonds, IBB and KfW Bank also take part
Equistone closes fifth fund on €2bn hard-cap
Vehicle exceeds €1.75bn fundraising target
Valar Ventures leads €10m series-A in Number26
Earlybird invested in company in June 2014 alongside Redalpine
Constellation acquires TEX in MBO
Trans Europa Express Holding will pursue buy-and-build strategy
Index-backed BlaBlaCar buys Earlybird’s Carpooling
BlaBlaCar acquired Ukraine-based Podorozhniki last year
Holtzbrinck leads €6m Thermondo funding round
Heating service plans to make 140 new hires this year
Mountain Partners acquires Netstart Venture
Business angel Kollman sells venture capital company to Swiss VC