Germany
Partech holds final closing on €400m for seventh VC fund
GP's previous vehicle, Partech VI, closed with €130m in commitments in 2013
Shortcut et al. sell Mediakraft to Gamigo
Capnamic Ventures and Iris Capital are among the company's previous investors
Project A, Creandum lead €8.5m series-A for Comtravo
New funding will be used to accelerate product development and facilitate future international expansion
High-Tech Gründerfonds sells Fruux
GP sells its stake to the company's founding partner after a five-year holding period
Bain, Cinven to bid again for Stada as CEO resigns
Stada CEO Matthias Wiedenfels has resigned today and will be replaced by Engelbert Coster Tjeenk Willink
Deal in Focus: Ufenau reaps 6x on NRW sale
Divestment of building refurbishment company follows a tenure of less than three years
HTGF, Media Ventures et al. in $8.5m round for Make.tv
Corporate venture players Voyager Capital, Microsoft Ventures and Vulcan Capital also back the round
Target Partners leads €4.2m round for ArangoDB
Deal is the final tranche of the series-A funding round, which first closed on €2.2m in November 2016
Vitruvian closes third fund on €2.4bn hard-cap
Vehicle is considerably larger than its ТЃ1bn predecessor, which held a first and final close in 2013
Findos sells Gabo to Bregal Unternehmerkapital
Bregal plans to work together with management to focus on internationalisation, sales and new products
Bösenberg leaves Sun European, triggering Frankfurt office closure
Sun European has completed 12% of its deals in the DACH region, according to unquote" data
VC-backed Delivery Hero readies for €4bn+ IPO
Listing is expected to raise €996m and give the company a total enterprise value of €4.4bn
BIP backs Mercateo
Company will use the fresh capital for the roll-out and expansion of a new networking platform
Cherry Ventures leads €4m funding round for Infarm
VC is joined in the round by Quadia, Localglobe, Atlantic Food Labs, Ideo and Demand Analytics
Cobe buys Völker from Hill-Rom
End of a five-year holding period for Hill-Rom, which acquired Völker for $85m in February 2012
Triton buys Univativ
Second acquisition made by Triton's recently established lower-mid-cap team, according to a statement
Bain and Cinven's Stada take-private bid fails
Offer narrowly misses the minimum acceptance condition, with 65.2% of Stada shares tendered
Bain's European Tyres Distribution acquires Reiff division
Deal for tyre distributor is the second acquisition for the pan-European buy-and-build platform
Project A sells Contorion to Hoffmann
Steel distributor Klöckner & Co and early-stage investor Endeit Capital also sell their stakes
Debeka and VC firms in €20m round for Ottonova
Holtzbrinck, Vorwerk, Tengelmann and B-to-V reinvested in the round to the tune of €10m
EQT buys 20% stake in Ottobock
GP will use capital from EQT VII to make the investment, based on a €3.15bn EV
Hannover Finanz purchases majority stake in Widos
German GP acquires an 80% stake while Finexx and the management team will retain a 10% holding each
Ufenau reaps 6x on NRW sale to Bregal Unternehmerkapital
Swiss GP fully exits the German refurbishment company following a 32-month ownership period
AAC Capital Partners acquires Verasol
Committed Capital acquired the veranda and garden room maker in 2009, investing through its first fund