Bessemer Venture Partners

The US pension fund committed $50m to Bessemer Partner's flagship fund.

The California-based venture capital firm held a final close on its 12th private equity fund.

Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners have teamed up with management executives of healthcare software provider Netsmart Technologies in a $115m going-private deal.

Bessemer Venture Partners has acquired a 2.41% stake in IL&FS Transportation Networks which develops and implements surface transport projects.

The Olympus Capital Holdings Asia- and Bessemer Venture Partners-backed Indian renewable energy company has filed a draft red herring prospectus.

Bessemer Venture Partners has acquired a minority stake in Ind-Barath Power Infra. Citi Venture Capital International and Sequoia Capital are reportedly the other investors to have participated in the $100 million transaction.

Bessemer Venture Partners has promoted three professionals, two of whom are located in Mumbai and one in Massachusetts.

Goldman Sachs, The McGraw-Hill Companies, SAP Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners have added $23m on to the $53m in Series D financing the professional networking site raised over the summer.

Before we get to today's Side Letter, the big news overnight, of course, was Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris, and the Republicans winning back control of the Senate. Private equity, for all the scrutiny it has come under in recent years, hasn't been a major battleground in this election. If you'd like to share your thoughts on this morning's results – anonymously or otherwise – we'd love to hear from you. In the meantime, here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

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The Taiwanese life insurer has backed two venture capital funds.

The California-based venture capital firm held a final close on its tenth private equity fund.

The company will acquire Procera Networks

The investment comes from Permira’s latest vehicle

A cursory trawl of our archives demonstrates just how intimately tied Skype has been to venture capital and private equity firms during its short lifetime, and how profitable it has been for those firms which took a punt on the business.