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General Atlantic snares CareMetx in SBO

January 15, 2021

General Atlantic has agreed to buy a majority stake in CareMetx from The Vistria Group, with Vistria retaining a minority holding in the Maryland-based company. CareMetx is the provider of a...

Sixth Street Partners backs Convex with $500M

January 15, 2021

Sixth Street Partners has made a $500 million investment in Convex, a provider of insurance and reinsurance services for companies in sectors including aerospace, casualty, energy and marine. The...

BV Investment takes control of Talent

January 15, 2021

BV Investment Partners has acquired a majority stake in Talent, the creator of a tech platform focused on career services that provides interview preparation coaching and helps job seekers create...

Warburg Pincus devotes $125M to LendingPoint

January 15, 2021

Warburg Pincus has made a $125 million investment in LendingPoint, the provider of a fintech platform that offers consumer and business loans. Founded in 2014 and based in Georgia, LendingPoint has...

Harness becomes unicorn with latest funding

January 15, 2021

Harness, the developer of a software delivery platform for engineering and DevOps teams, has announced it raised $115 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion. In 2019, the startup was worth $500...

Brexit, SPACs and more 2021 predictions for Europe's private markets

January 15, 2021

Private equity firms will invest a record-breaking amount of capital in Europe during 2021. The fallout from Brexit will fail to make much of a dent in the UK's market for venture capital. And the...

Grab's financial arm pulls in $300M

January 15, 2021

The financial services unit of Grab, the Southeast Asian ridehailing and food delivery company, has secured over $300 million in a Series A. The funding was led by South Korean asset manager...

Software giant Iris buys VC-backed Senta

January 15, 2021

Iris Software Group has agreed to acquire Senta, a provider of cloud-based accounting software. Founded in 2014, Senta has raised £678,000 in equity financing, according to investment platform...

Qualcomm to buy chipmaker for $1.4B

January 15, 2021

Chipmaker Qualcomm has agreed to buy semiconductor startup Nuvia for $1.4 billion. The developer of CPU tech, which was founded in 2019 by former Apple employees, raised nearly $240 million last...

Winklevoss twins could take cryptocurrency company public

January 15, 2021

Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange operator headed by Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, has mulled going public, Bloomberg reported. The price of digital currency Bitcoin has more than...

Emergency communications startup raises $25M

January 15, 2021

Carbyne, which offers a cloud-based public safety communications platform, has raised $25 million, TechCrunch reported. The funding was reportedly co-led by Hanaco Ventures and Elsted Capital, with...

Apax-backed ThoughtWorks brings in $720M

January 15, 2021

GIC, Siemens, Fidelity Management & Research and Mubadala have invested $720 million in ThoughtWorks, a provider of software consultancy services. The deal values the Chicago-based company at $4.6...

Premise Data secures $85M Series E

January 15, 2021

Premise Data has raised $85 million in a Series E led by Westcap. NightDragon, Winslow Capital, DRW and Vista Credit Partners also took part in the round. Based in San Francisco, Premise is the...

Sennder hits unicorn status with Series D

January 15, 2021

Digital freight forwarder Sennder has raised $160 million from investors including Accel, Lakestar, HV Capital, Project A and Scania. The investment values the Berlin-based company at over $1...

Authentic Brands, JD Sports eye joint Topshop bid

January 15, 2021

Authentic Brands, the owner of the department store Barneys, is in talks with JD Sports Fashion over a joint bid for struggling UK high-street fashion chain Topshop, Sky News reported. Topshop is...