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In Profile: Vendis Capital
Vendis co-founder Cedric Olbrechts discusses the advantages of being a sector specialist
Trilantic Europe invests €66m in Fondazione Maugeri
Trilantic Europe plans to increase its investment in the business to €100m by 2017
North East Technology Fund scores 2.9x on Route Monkey exit
North East Technology Fund has now made £8.6m in returns over course of six years
Passion Capital backs Vicampo’s €5.3m series-C
Online wine seller Vicampo raised €5.3m from Passion Capital, e.ventures and others
Motion Equity Partners buys Altaïr Group
Azulis Capital and Gimv exit after five-year ownership of cleaning products maker
MML's Luneau buys French assets of Haag Streit
MML backed French ophthalmology equipment specialist Luneau Technology Group in early 2015
Project A et al. in seven-digit series-A for Loopline
Loopline held a second closing on its seven-digit series-A from VCs and business angels
Seafort acquires Avedo from Auctus
Seafort buys majority stake in Avedo, while Onics reduces its stake and Auctus fully exits
Partech and 360 in €1.1m round for Cubyn
The delivery company will use the fresh funds to boost shipments by 500% by the end of the year
3TS in $6m round for Polish marketing startup SalesManago
Fresh venture funding will support the company’s continued European expansion
Carlyle Group acquires Spain's Digitex in SBO
Deal marks an exit for Altra Investment after a five-year holding period
Octopus sells Vision Direct
Octopus had been invested in the company since 2009 and supported several bolt-ons
Demeter exits Födisch
French investor Demeter exits cleantech business Födisch to management and WMS
Latvian VC Skillion Ventures leads €2m round for Mintos
Peer-to-peer lender claims to have lent in excess of €15m through its platform in the last 12 months
Inveready leads €1.3m series-B for Odilo
European public fund Enisa also takes part in the funding round
Ventech leads InSided’s €6m series-A
The deal is the 18th for Ventech’s €110m fourth fund, according to an unquote” source
CVC closes tech growth fund on $1bn
Fundraising for the Europe- and US-focused vehicle started in mid-2014 with a $750m target
Black Toro-backed Torrot bolts on Gas Gas for €9m
The Spanish GP has acquired Gas Gas through a juridical liquidation sale
A Plus et al. create tourism group with Vedettes bolt-on
The new business will represent €35-40m in EV and remains majority-owned by its CEO
BGF provides growth funding for RMS
Manchester-based importer RMS International receives growth funding from BGF
Graphite’s City & County buys ICCM
Graphite's homecare service has acquired ICCM from Livingbridge
iSeed Ventures backs Anyline’s €1.5m round
Text recognition tool Anyline raises €1.5m from US VC iSeed Ventures and other backers
Stirling Square in SBO of Mettis from Saints Chamonix
Stirling's acquisition comes a decade after Chamonix carved out Mettis from its 3i-owned parent
Goldman Sachs leads Qubit’s $40m series-C
Round brings funds raised by Qubit to $76m after $26m series-B in 2014