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Silversmith invests $50 mln in data management company Centauri Health Solutions

Boston-based Silversmith Capital Partners acquired a significant minority stake in Centauri Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of data management services for the healthcare industry. Silversmith invested $50 million in the company, which has locations in Scottsdale, Nashville and Orlando.

VMG sells nut butter maker Justin's to Hormel Foods

Private equity firm VMG Partners completed the sale of nut butter maker Justin's LLC to Hormel Foods. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

PE HUB Second Opinion

To wrap up your Thursday, KKR could be considering a takeover of Japanese airbag maker Takata, and Google dodged $9 billion of damages to Oracle in a smartphone court case.

Carlyle's head of financial services Olivier Sarkozy resigns: Bloomberg

The head of Carlyle Group LP's financial services group, Olivier Sarkozy, has resigned, Bloomberg reported. Sarkozy, who joined the firm in 2008, will continue as a senior advisor.

EQT closes venture fund on 566 mln euros

Stockholm-headquartered EQT closed EQT Ventures Fund on 566 million euros ($633 million). The fund will invest in tech companies across Europe at all stages of growth.

Content delivery platform Kollective raises $12.25 mln in Series C round

Kollective secured $12.25 million in a Series C funding round with participation by MK Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Cross Creek Capital, Hatteras Funds and others. The company provides a cloud-based content delivery platform and has a partnership with Microsoft's Skype. The funding will be used in part to expand Kollective's business in Asia.

Intel Capital leads $10 mln Series B in healthcare analytics company Lumiata

Intel Capital led a $10 million Series B funding round in Lumiata, a predictive analytics company serving the healthcare industry. All existing investors participated, including Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners, Sandbox Industries, and Khosla Ventures. Lumiata's total capital raised is now $20 million.

PE-owned eVerifile sells customer care division to CEO

Railroad workforce safety company eVerifile sold its customer care division, Everifile CS, to CEO Mark Wilson. Bob Ingalls will take over as CEO, and Wilson will merge Everifile CS with Chime Solutions, a contact center outsourcing company based in Morrow, Georgia. Private equity companies Frontier Capital, Magic Johnson Enterprises and Yucaipa Company own eVerifile.

Qualtrics buys Y Combinator-backed data science startup Statwing

Customer insight software provider Qualtrics acquired Statwing, a data science startup based in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator. Statwing's point-and-click tool will be integrated into the Qualtrics Insight Platform.

Art tech startup Meural raises $2.5 mln in seed round led by Corigin Ventures

strong>Corigin Ventures led a $2.5 million seed round funding in Meural, a New York-based startup that creates digital canvases which stream art to users' walls. Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners also participated, along with Francois Bennahmias (CEO of Audimars Piguet), Elio Leoni Sceti (former CEO of EMI, and current board of directors member at AB InBev) and others.