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Battery Ventures in Vero Software trade sale
Sweden-based Hexagon will continue to run Vero as autonomous unit
Notion, White Star lead $7m round for Glow
Business has raised $8.3m to date
Shares rise in VC-backed Abzena after £20m IPO
The offering gave Abzena a market cap of ТЃ77.9m
BC-backed Mergermarket buys The Law Report Group
Bolt-on follows acquisition of Perfect Information earlier this year
Xmos raises $26.2m in series-D
Investment comes from existing investors, including Amadeus
Mobeus inks Tharsten deal
Mobeus provides debt & equity to support transaction
UK managers: time to fully comply with AIFMD
How will the newly enforced rules impact UK players?
Cabot Square injects £25m into Henry Howard Finance
Business to use capital to launch online funding portal
Octopus leads £4m round for Swoon Editions
Series-A comes nine months after seed financing
Silverfleet acquires AGR division for NOK 1.64bn
Deal expected to close in August, with Altor turning in profit
Palamon sells Retail Decisions for $205m
Palamon reaps 2.5x from sale
Balderton injects £3.8m into Crowdcube
Crowdcube will raise further ТЃ1.2m through its own crowdfunding platform
PE-backed gym merger collapses
Extended investigation into merger causes plans to be abandoned
Index et al. inject $65m into Funding Circle
Latest round raises total amount to $123m
LVP announces seed fund for game developers
Potential $12.5m fund backed by Zynga CEO, Nexon and Wargaming
Livingstone appoints four
New director, associate director and analysts appointed
GCP promotes Shaw to director
Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has promoted Richard Shaw to investment director
Beechbrook appoints new finance and operations director
Announcement made in conjunction with final fund close
Octopus backs bitcoin firm Elliptic
Company claims to provide world's first insured bitcoin storage
Willkie Farr hires two for London PE practice
Both hires former Kirkland & Ellis partners
Former 3i director Nolan joins YFM
Eamon Nolan, former portfolio director at 3i, has joined YFM Equity Partners
Endless buys Kiddicare from Morrisons for £2m
Morrison makes significant loss on original ТЃ70m investment
NorthEdge acquires Accrol for £66m
Deal marks sixth investment from firm's maiden fund
Inflexion reaps 2.8x on £42m Phlexglobal sale to BDC
Sale comes after three-year holding period