Sverica Capital

Pennsylvania-based Defy Security is a cybersecurity services firm.

Coastal has been sold to Tata Consultancy Services.

KKR, GrowthCurve and Main Capital are among the PE firms making investments in the construction software subsector.

Sverica Capital is investing out of its 6th fund, which comprises $750m of LP committed capital.

ESC President Chris Sorby will continue to lead the company.

Four Inc CEO Jeff Nolan and Chief Operating Officer David Stewart will continue to lead the company.

Zyston CEO Craig Stamm will continue to lead the company, while Frank Young, managing partner at Sverica, and Michael Dougherty, a principal at Sverica, will join Zyston’s board.

FSH CEO Teira Gunlock will continue to lead the company, while Gregg Osenkowski, a partner at Sverica, and Doug Patrican, vice president at Sverica, will join FSH's board of directors.

The PE firm will target founder-led, tech-enabled healthcare service providers in the lower mid-market with EBITDA values of $2 million-$20 million.

Also, the firm has recently hired Matt Johnson as a principal.

Unified Women's Healthcare, which is backed by Altas Partners, Ares Management Corporation and Oak HC/FT, has acquired Women’s Health USA, a provider of practice management services for the women’s health sector.

Milwaukee-based social business solutions provider 7Summits has named Ron Gidwitz to its board of directors. Gidwitz is a co-founder of GCG Partners and the former CEO of the Unilever HPC Helene Curtis business unit. 7Summits is backed by Sverica.

Sverica has completed the sale of its majority stake in Accuvant to Blackstone. No financial terms were disclosed. As a result of the transaction, Sverica will retain a minority stake in Accuvant and remain on its board of directors. Headquartered in Denver, Accuvant is a provider of information security solutions.

Canadian growth investor Beedie Capital Partners has provided undisclosed debt financing to Syscon Justice Systems Ltd. The transaction is intended to support the company's expansion and to refinance a portion of its existing debt. Based in Richmond, British Columbia, Syscon provides information technology management software and services to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. It is a portfolio investment of U.S. private equity firm Sverica International, which bought the company from Securus Technologies Inc in 2010. The Syscon deal is Beedie's third done so far in 2014. Last month, the firm invested /canada/2014/03/14/beedie-capital-partners-commits-5-mln-to-grow-elastic-path-software/ in Elastic Path Software Inc, and in January, it invested /canada/2014/01/14/beedie-capital-partners-growthworks-back-responsetek-with-6-mln-in-funding/ in ResponseTek Networks Corp.

Blackstone Group, the world's biggest alternative asset manager, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy most of cybersecurity firm Accuvant Inc from investment firm Sverica International.

The Blackstone Group, the world’s biggest alternative asset manager, said on March 11 that it agreed to buy most of cybersecurity firm Accuvant Inc from investment firm Sverica International.