Germany
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
Bregal acquires 67.55% stake in SHD
Investment will come from Bregal's Jersey-based €550m DACH fund, Bregal Unternehmerkapital LP
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
BlackRock et al. invest €30m in Scalable Capital
Existing investors HV Holtzbrinck and Tengelmann join the round for the digital investment firm
Oaktree buys stake in Marlin's Coriant
Marlin Equity Partners has owned a controlling stake in the business since inception in 2013
TVM leads €25m series-A for Centogene
Backers include Deutsche Private Equity, Careventures and CIC Capital
Abry-backed Basefarm buys The Unbelievable Machine
GP originally acquired a controlling stake in the business in December 2012
CVC-backed Douglas raises €300m, reprices existing debt
New debt priced at 325bps over Euribor while the existing facility priced at 350bps
Rantum carves out Montratec from Schmid Group
First investment made from Cedarlake Private Equity Fund I, a joint venture advised by Rantum Capital
Point Nine closes €75m venture fund
Vehicle was launched in Q4 2016 and has raised the majority of its commitments from existing investors
Bayern Kapital backs Octimine Technologies
Numerous business angels also invested in the round to provide an amount in the seven-digit range
Fidelium Partners closes €103m special situations fund
Fidelium invests in companies that are facing significant operational challenges, as well as carve-outs
US investors lead $6m round for Jodel
Business angels the Samwer brothers and Soundcloud investor Christophe Maire also participated