Ireland
Delta leads $6m round for Cleverbug
Irish firm Delta Partners has led a $6m funding round for Cleverbug, the Dublin-based developer of a greetings card app.
Carlyle indulges with Lily O’Brien’s
Carlyle’s Ireland-focused fund has invested in premium chocolate and dessert maker Lily O’Brien’s.
Highland leads €23.5m investment in AMCS
Highland Capital Partners Europe has led a €23.5m capital injection into AMCS Group.
NPRF offloads €800m PE portfolio to Lexington
The National Pensions Reserve Fund of Ireland (NPRF) has sold around €800m of global private equity fund interests to secondaries firm Lexington Partners.
Summit Bridge to manage $100m China-Ireland Fund
Atlantic Bridge Capital and WestSummit Capital have launched the $100m China Ireland Technology Growth Capital Fund.
Kernel and Enterprise Ireland back PR Slides
Kernel Capital and Enterprise Ireland have taken part in a €500,000 funding round for PR Slides, a Dublin-based online press office for fashion and beauty brands.
Enterprise Ireland et al. back Metabolomic
Enterprise Ireland, SOSVentures and the AIB Seed Capital Fund have injected €750,000 into the series-A funding round of Ireland-based Metabolomic Diagnostics.
Kernel et al. back TCAS
Kernel Capital, Enterprise Ireland and private investors have injected €650,000 into TCAS Online, a Dublin-based provider of software for student accommodation managers.
MML raises €125m fund for Ireland
Enterprise Ireland has backed MML Capital Partners as a cornerstone investor in a new fund to back SMEs in Ireland.
CurrencyFair raises $2.5m from Frontline Ventures
Irish peer-to-peer foreign exchange CurrencyFair has raised $2.5m from Frontline Ventures and angel investors.
Trustev raises $3m
Irish anti-fraud solutions provider Trustev has raised $3m in a seed funding round.
Kernel Capital, Invest NI launch £25m fund
Irish venture capital firm Kernel Capital has announced its newest £25m fund, Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI), which will invest in local businesses.
Crescent Capital announces Crescent III
Crescent Capital has announced its third venture capital fund, Crescent III, on £22.5m after a tempestuous year of fundraising.
Omnes injects €3m into Opsona
Omnes Capital has made a capital injection of €3m into immunology drug developer Opsona Therapeutics, in an extension of the company’s series-C round.
Logentries raises $10m from VCs
Dublin-based Logentries has secured a $10m series-A investment from a consortium of investors comprising Polaris Partners, Frontline Ventures, RRE Ventures and the Floodgate fund.
BNY Mellon appoints Burns as head of PE accounting
Investment bank BNY Mellon has appointed Eamon Burns as regional head of private equity accounting for EMEA within its asset servicing business.
Tapastreet pulls in €500,000 funding round
Tapastreet, an Irish location-based media discovery app developer, has secured a €500,000 investment from state-backed venture capital firms Kernel Capital and Enterprise Ireland.
NewsWhip secures $1.1m in seed funding
Hal Philipp of Meridian Growth Capital, Shane Naughton of Inundata and others have invested $1.1m in a seed funding round for NewsWhip, a Dublin-based online news platform.
Hellman’s WRI buys HostelBookers.com
Hellman & Friedman-backed Web Reservations International (WRI) has acquired HostelBookers.com.
Syncrophi Systems raises €1m
Galway-based medical devices company Syncrophi Systems has raised €1m from the AIB Seed Capital Fund.
Duke Street’s Payzone Group sells Cashzone subsidiary
Payzone Group, a consumer payment acceptance network backed by Duke Street, has sold its Cashzone subsidiary to US-based ATM services provider Cardtronics for a total consideration of £107.5m.
Terra Firma sells Phoenix to Hastings
Terra Firma has wholly divested Phoenix Natural Gas, a Northern Irish natural gas distribution and energy services company, to infrastructure fund manager Hastings.
BBVA joins SumUp extended series-B
BBVA Ventures, the venture capital arm of Spanish bank BBVA Group, has invested in Dublin-based SumUp in an extension of the company’s previous series-B round.
Leaf leads €1m round for BlikBook
Leaf Investments has led a €1m funding round for BlikBook, a university online interaction platform, alongside Delta Partners, Forward Investment Partners and Enterprise Ireland.