Invest-IQ | Private Equity News – Europe

360T Group, the leading independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, announced today that growth equity investor Summit Partners has signed a definitive agreement to invest in the company. The investment will position 360T for continued strong global growth. The investment will involve a partial divestiture of the stake held by Brockhaus Private Equity, which [...]

Conceptboard, a virtual whiteboard startup,  has raised cc. EUR 500.000 from two German investors. Details of the investment have not been shared publicly. Related Links: Press Release: Conceptboard gets funded by High-Tech Gründerfonds and Seedfonds BW Investors: HighTech Gruenderfonds, Seedfonds Target: Conceptboard  

Peecho Cloud Print closed a funding round of USD 750K with to roll out the Peecho Cloud Print Button globally. Related Links: Press Release: Peecho funded by Peak Capital and DHG Holding Investor: Peak Capital DHG Holding Target: Peecho

The Online Backup Company has secured €6.47 million in a funding round led by VC Northzone Ventures to expand into to Sweden, Germany, and the rest of Europe. The company provides online backup and disaster recovery solutions, and is the biggest in Norway with 4,000 customers, 35 employees and a turnover close to NKr 50 million. Related [...]

Doonet has secured $6.8 million in first round investment from DuMont Venture and angel investors Dr. Hermann Simon and Lars Hinrichs. Doonet’s mission is to offer a true alternative,- easy-to-use, effective and beautiful- to help transitioning from paper to digital. The app that lets consumers and small businesses access, organize and  archive safely digital documents from [...]

Advent International acquired 90 percent stake in Oberthurt Fiduciaire Group by the completion of the acquisition of the Card Systems and Identity divisions of the company. Jean-Pierre Savare, founder of the Oberthur Group and his family retain a 10% stake in the capital. The transaction is valued at 1.15 billion Euros. Related Links: Press Release: [...]

Open Ocean Capital, the early-stage venture capital firm with experienced investors and entrepreneurs from the MySQL success story, today announced the first investment from their recently closed Fund Three. Open Ocean Capital has invested over $1M in Zentyal, a developer of the Linux based Small Business Server. Related Links: Press Release: Zentyal raises over $1 [...]

Masabi, the developer of mobile phone ticketing technology, today announced the completion of a $4 million Series B funding round with m8 Capital, the mobile technology venture capital fund. Since securing its Series A funding round in September 2010, Masabi has gone from strength to strength, with multiple successful launches of mTicketing services including Cross [...]

The NASDAQ OMX Group announced that it has agreed to acquire Glide Technologies Limited, a leading London-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider specializing in corporate communications and reputation management solutions. Glide Technologies will be integrated into NASDAQ OMX’s Corporate Solutions to create the first and only fully-integrated workflow solution for investor relations and public relations professionals. Related [...]

Kerridge Commercial Systems, specialising in business management software solutions, has acquired ERP solutions provider, TIS Software (trading as Strategix). Both businesses design software solutions specifically for the wholesale and industrial distribution sectors, so consolidation of the two companies is a strategic move to create a greater force within the industry. NVM Private Equity invested £9m [...]