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Abry Partners backs managed IT firm KaufmanIT

Abry’s investment will provide KaufmanIT with the strategic and financial resources to scale the company’s platform, expand its cybersecurity and IT solutions, and pursue growth opportunities across the managed services market.

Achieve Partners invests in edtech firm Alchemy

Matt Gurney serves as CEO of Alchemy.

Thoma Bravo to take validation software firm Kneat private for $466m

Kneat provides a digital validation and quality process automation platform to clients in highly regulated life sciences industries.

AI's impact on deal sourcing, value creation, exits and returns explored at PEI Group’s Women in Private Markets Summit; Wynnchurch exits Labrie to Finnish strategic for $1.4bn

AI was everything everywhere all at once this week at PEI Group’s fourth annual Women in Private Markets Summit: North America; weekly update on companies for sale, featuring Wynnchurch’s exit of a garbage truck company.

Five-plus-five asset cycle critical in age of AI, says KPMG’s Tilman Ost; ‘Heightened scrutiny’ on tech-adjacent deals coming to Europe, says A&O Shearman

'People are still positive on software, but it must be very niche, mission-critical, depending on precisely which applications are you going for,' says Tilman Ost, global private equity advisory leader at KPMG.

Main Capital-backed Sensire snaps up majority stake in Dyzle

Dyzle is a provider of environmental monitoring products for regulated industries.