Private Equity
Digital health start-up Kurbo Health has raised $5.8 million in Series A funding, led by Signia Venture Partners. Other investors include Data Collective, Bessemer Venture Partners and Promus Ventures. Kurbo is part of Rock Health, a full-service seed fund for digital health startups.
4 min read · 29 July 2014
Post Oak Energy Capital has committed $150 million to CP Exploration II (CPX). Funding from the commitment will be used for acquisitions and growth capital. CPX is a newly formed oil and gas company co-located in Dallas, TX and Lafayette, LA.
2 min read · 29 July 2014
Centric Software has secured $24 million in growth capital as part of a Series D round. The financing was co-led by Fung Capital and Silver Lake Waterman. Centric Software is a provider of PLM software for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods companies.
4 min read · 29 July 2014
Blackstone's Strategic Partners Fund Solutions has appointed Mark Burton to lead its real estate secondaries practice. Burton will serve as principal and oversee Strategic Partners’ real estate secondary investment activities.
2 min read · 29 July 2014
Cloud software company SkyKick has secured $3 million in strategic capital, bringing its total capital raised to $7.2 million. The round adds several strategic private equity investors to SkyKick's backers, as well as some notable angels such as Tim Ferriss, former Qwiki COO, Navin Thukkaram and Ironfire Capital.
2 min read · 29 July 2014
Microsoft, Jerusalem Venture Partners and Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services have launched a cybersecurity accelerator. The program is located at the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Tel Aviv.
3 min read · 29 July 2014
Federal prosecutor Marc P. Berger has joined the New York office of Ropes & Gray. He will be a partner in Ropes & Gray's government enforcement practice.
3 min read · 29 July 2014
Neuberger Berman has appointed Clifford Chiu, a former partner member at KKR, as senior adviser to Neuberger Berman Asia, effective immediately. Chiu will work across the Asia Pacific region to help Neuberger Berman build its Asian client base.
3 min read · 29 July 2014
UK-based Admedo has raised a $2 million round of series A funding. The round was led by Sussex Place Ventures. Playfair Capital, Encore Capital and Kima Ventures also participated. Admedo enables advertisers and agencies to manage their programmatic advertising in-house.
2 min read · 29 July 2014
This morning there are billion dollar deals aplenty with Carlyle and CVC on the cusp of acquisitions, Sankaty acquiring JPMorgan's mezzanine portfolio and IPOs having their strongest week since 2000.
1 min read · 29 July 2014
