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i4cp: Strategic Investment Raised From M|C Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) announced a strategic investment from M|C Partners, which is a Boston-based private equity firm focused on businesses in the technology services and digital infrastructure sectors. The funding will support additional growth opportunities for i4cp, which is a leading authority on next practices in human capital.

ZOZO Buying Lyst In $154 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

LYST (a leading global fashion shopping platform) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by ZOZO, which operates a leading fashion e-commerce platform in Japan, for $154 million. Following the deal's closing, Lyst will become a wholly owned subsidiary of ZOZO. ZOZO and Lyst together share a vision to transform the online fashion shopping experience by bringing joy back to fashion discovery.

DLA Piper: Ken Funahashi Named As Partner In Corporate Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

DLA Piper announced it has named Ken Funahashi a partner in the Corporate Practice. And he will be based in the Los Angeles office.

Five Good Friends: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From TPG

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Five Good Friends announced a strategic investment from leading global alternative asset management firm TPG to fund its continued growth in the home care industry.

Baker McKenzie FenXun Expands China-Based Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Baker McKenzie and its joint operation partner FenXun announced that a team of transactional lawyers, headlined by Partners Dan Ouyang, Winfield Lau, Ke (Ronnie) Li, and Zhenzhen Bao, is joining the Greater China Capital Markets team in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. This will further support the firm’s capabilities across Hong Kong and US IPOs and other international capital markets transactions.

DNSFilter Buying Zorus To Improve End User Protection

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

DNSFilter - a cybersecurity leader in content and threat filtering at the DNS layer - announced its acquisition of Zorus, an innovative provider of endpoint-based web filtering and user behavior analytics. This strategic deal extends DNSFilter's filtering capabilities and reinforces its commitment to Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

EQT Selling Karo Healthcare To KKR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

EQT and KKR announced that EQT VIII fund agreed to sell Karo Healthcare to KKR. This deal marks the next chapter for Karo as it continues to advance its growth strategy under KKR's ownership, building on its transformation into one of Europe's leading consumer health platforms since EQT's initial investment.

F.N.B. Acquiring Raptor Partners To Expand Capital Markets Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

F.N.B. and its wholly owned broker dealer subsidiary announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Raptor Partners, an independent investment banking firm focused on delivering financial advisory services to public and private companies.

Clifford Chance: David Feldman Added As Partner To Expand US Restructuring & Insolvency Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Clifford Chance announced it has hired US partner David M. Feldman to co-lead its Global Restructuring & Insolvency practice and Philip Hertz, who has led the practice since 2016, further strengthening the firm's Restructuring & Insolvency team in the US.

Sidley: Andrew Fadale Joins New York Office As Partner In M&A Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Sidley Austin announced that Andrew Fadale has joined the New York office as a partner in the firm’s M&A and Private Equity practice. Before joining Sidley, Mr. Fadale was a partner in the New York office of Milbank and a member of their Global Corporate Group.

Penn State University: Student Startups Win Funding Prizes For Inc.U Competition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Penn State University revealed in a news release that Joy Tac (a student startup from Penn State Harrisburg) won first place and $15,000 in the 2025 Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition. And as a kickoff to Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC, six student teams from four Penn State campuses pitched their startups to a panel of judges, competing for $30,000 in total funding prizes.

H.I.G. Capital: Acquisition Of GetixHealth Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $68 billion under management, announced that an affiliate has completed a strategic investment in GetixHealth.

CD&R: Michael Harrington Named As Risk Director

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

CD&R announced the appointment of Michael Harrington as Risk Director, a new position that will provide strategic risk management guidance at both the portfolio and enterprise level.

Pantheon: $5.2 Billion Raised For Third Senior Credit Secondaries Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Global private markets investor Pantheon announced the closing of a record $5.2 billion into Pantheon Senior Debt III (PSD III) and related vehicles, featuring closed-end co-mingled funds, evergreen and rated insurance vehicles, and separately managed accounts.

Olaris: Strategic Investment Raised From Labcorp

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Olaris, a precision medicine company leveraging metabolomics and machine learning to discover and develop its myOLARIS diagnostics products, announced an investment from Labcorp, a leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, as part of its Series-B1 financing. Labcorp joins existing investors Robert Carpenter, Innospark Ventures, North Point Partners, Alumni Ventures, and new investor US Boston Growth Capital.

Osaic Onboards $450 Million NoxNumis Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Osaic announced NoxNumis, a wealth management firm based in Wichita, Kansas, that serves over $450 million in client assets, as the latest advisor to join its community.

LPL Names Vaughn Harvey As Chief Data And AI Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

LPL Financial announced the appointment of Vaughn Harvey as executive vice president and chief data and artificial intelligence (AI) officer. Harvey will oversee the company’s data and AI initiatives, driving innovation and digital transformation across the organization.

AlpInvest Partners: Over $4 Billion Raised For Portfolio Finance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

AlpInvest Partners, a leading global private equity investor and subsidiary of Carlyle, announced it has raised $3.2 billion for AlpInvest Strategic Portfolio Finance Fund II (ASPF II), inclusive of parallel SMAs and co-investments. This exceeds the initial target and more than triples the size of the previous program ASPF I.

Carson Group Acquires $314 Million Mommaerts Mahaney Financial Services Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Carson Group, a leading wealth advisory firm with almost $41 billion in assets under management (AUM), announced the full acquisition of Mommaerts Mahaney Financial Services. Headed by founder Jon Mommaerts, CFP, the Marquette, Michigan-based firm serves about $314 million AUM and will rebrand as a Carson Wealth office in Marquette.

RCP Advisors: RCPDirect V Closed At About $994 Million In Commitments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

P10, a leading private markets solutions provider, announced today that its strategy RCP Advisors (a private equity investment firm) that provides access to North American small buyout fund managers, closed on its latest co-investment fund called RCPDirect V.

SecondWave Systems: $7 Million (Series A) Raised For Advancing Ultrasound-Based Anti-Inflammatory Therapy Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

SecondWave Systems, a clinical-stage medical device company developing a novel ultrasound-based treatment for inflammatory disorders, announced that it has closed a $7 million Series A financing round. The funding was led by Treo Ventures, a major healthcare strategic investor, with participation from Scientific Health Development and the University of Minnesota's Discovery Capital and SSBCI funds.

Taylor Farms Buying FarmWise’s Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

Taylor Farms, which is a leading producer of ready-to-eat salads and healthy fresh foods, announced its acquisition of FarmWise’s business, an agricultural technology robotics company specializing in precision weeding and thinning solutions.

incident.io: $62 Million (Series B) Raised To Help Engineering Teams Fix Issues Faster

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

incident.io, an end-to-end incident management platform used by engineering teams at companies like Netflix, Linear, Ramp, and Etsy, announced it has raised $62 million in Series B funding. This funding round was led by Insight Partners and with continued support from Index Ventures and Point Nine Capital. And this round brings the total funding to over $96 million.

groundcover: $35 Million (Series B) Raised For eBPF-Driven Observability Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

groundcover, an eBPF-driven observability platform for modern architectures, announced that it raised $35 Million in Series B funding led by Zeev Ventures with follow-up participation from Angular Ventures, Heavybit, and Jibe Ventures. This round brings the company's total funding to $60 million.

illumicell AI: $2 Million (Pre-Seed) Closed For Male Fertility Diagnostics Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

illumicell AI, which was founded by Harvard-trained physician Michel Bielecki, former McKinsey consultant Jeyla Sadikova, and rocket engineer Loup Cordey, announced it has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of the first portable lab scanner and real-time AI platform for fluid-based diagnostics, capable of analyzing cells and biomarkers within minutes. Investors include several top-tier healthcare operators, clinicians, and early-stage funds such as KOFA Healthcare, Harvard Phoenix Venture Fund, and MedTechSyndicates.

Thoughtful Automation: Growth Investment Raised From New Mountain Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

Thoughtful Automation, a leading AI-based revenue cycle automation company, announced a strategic investment from New Mountain Capital, an investment firm with over $55 billion in assets under management. This funding will support Thoughtful.ai’s next growth phase and further advance automation and AI adoption to address the complex challenges facing healthcare providers.

Prada To Buy Versace In $1.375 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

Prada announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Versace from Capri Holdings in cash consideration, based on an Enterprise Value of €1.25 billion (US$1.375 billion). The deal is subject to adjustments at closing.

Atempo Growth: First Closing Of Second Fund At €300 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

Atempo Growth announced the first closing of its second fund, Atempo Growth II SCA, SICAV-RAIF, which will finance high-growth tech companies in Europe. In this initial stage, the fund has raised €300 million to increase the platform’s assets under management to over €700 million. The target for the final close of the second fund—earmarked for Q1 of 2026—is between €400 and 500 million.

P10: Acquisition Of Qualitas Funds Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

P10, a private markets solutions provider, has completed its acquisition of Qualitas Equity Funds SGEIC, S.A., for an initial purchase price of $63 million, with the potential for additional earnout consideration.

Starwood Capital Buying 11 Master-Planned Texas-Based Communities For $800 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

A joint venture between an affiliate of Starwood Capital (a global private investment firm with a primary focus on real estate) and an affiliate of Land Strategies Management (DBA Starwood Land) announced that it has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of master-planned communities in Texas from Hines (a global real estate investment manager) for about $800 million.