Technology
Ace, CM-CIC sell Spring Technologies to trade
Sweden-based Hexagon, a specialist in Autonomous Connected Ecosystems (ACE) buys Spring
BGF injects £3m into DevOpsGroup
Investment will fund the acquisition of Wales-based IT skills training business AgileSnap
FPE Capital invests in TNP
Deal is the fourth investment from FPE's first institutional vehicle, closed last year
LDC divests Validus-IVC in trade sale to Verisk
Sale of motor-insurance-related business brings to an end a five-year tenure for the vendor
Insight backs $18.8m series-C for Blinkist
Existing investors Greycroft, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft and EVentures also take part
EQT in $28m series-B for Beamery
Microsoft's corporate venture arm also took part in the round for the recruitment software firm
Nauta leads €6m series-A for Talentry
Existing shareholder Global Founders Capital also took part in the funding round
Omnes et al. in series-B round for Tiller
GPs will provide a €12m equity ticket and can deploy up to €8m in the next 18 months
PE-backed Nets acquires Dotcard in €73m SBO
Investor MCI Management and insurance company Saltus TUW sell their joint asset
BWK-backed IT-Informatik buys Mercoline
Mercoline previously operated as a subsidiary of office supplies business Pelikan Group
Beringea leads €10m series-B for MYCS
Deal is Beringea's first investment in Germany and its second in the DACH region
Axcel acquires Loopia and Active 24 from Visma
Axcel plans to expand the company, which offers web domains, shared web hosting and IT services
Dunedin buys GPS
GP draws capital from Dunedin Buyout Fund III, a £300m fund that held a final close in June 2013
Vertis invests €3m in Sclak
Company will use the fresh capital to develop its digital platform and expand internationally
Irdi Soridec, Axeleo Capital back Adagio
First round of funding from VC firms sees the startup rebrand from Onfocus to Adagio
VC firms back $13m series-A for Tessian
Existing investors include Accel, Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane, LocalGlobe and Winton
In Profile: Mangrove Capital
An early backer in Skype and Wix, Mangrove held a final close on €200m for its fifth fund earlier this year
FSN forms new IT group with triple buyout deal
Nordic GP deployed capital from its FSN Capital V fund to finance the deals
Insight, Bessemer lead $50m series-C for Pipedrive
Latest funding round brings Pipedrive's total venture capital funding to date to $80m
RCapital sells Innervate to trade buyer
Deal brings to an end the GP's 12-month holding period for the London-based IT consultancy
Cabiedes & Partners, Highgrowth et al. exit Smadex
Smadex will be fully integrated into Headway, an Argentina-based provider of mobile data
Firstminute holds final close on $100m for seed fund
Follows a $60m first close in June 2017, and a second close on $85m in September
Omnes et al. back Mistral MBI
Transaction is the first investment from Omnes Capital's small-cap Omnes Expansion III fund
Invision launches sixth buyout fund
Fund was registered in Jersey on 5 December 2017 as Invision VI Limited Partnership
