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Berlin, June 2024 — Vsquared Ventures, a Euro­pean early-stage deep tech venture capi­tal fund, raises €214 million, signi­fi­cantly excee­ding its…

Berlin — Project A Ventures has led the €254.4 million finan­cing round of Aachen-based DeepT­ech start-up Black Semi­con­duc­tor as lead…

Munich — KEYOU, the pioneer of CO2-neutral hydro­gen mobi­lity, has closed the first part of its Series B finan­cing round…

The United Talent Agency (UTA) takes over the leading German soccer player agency ROOF “Repre­sen­ta­ti­ves Of Outstan­ding Foot­bal­lers”. — ROOF…

Düssel­dorf — Main Capi­tal subsi­diary ZIG comple­tes merger with Doozer Real Estate Systems. A Deloitte Legal team under the joint…

Vöhrin­gen, Bava­ria — Foun­ded in 1975, SMG Sport­platz­ma­schi­nen­bau GmbH (www.smg-machines.com) has long since estab­lished itself as a global leader in…

Leixlip, Ireland/ NY/ Santa Clara Calif. — Intel Corpo­ra­tion and Apollo announ­ced a defi­ni­tive agree­ment under which Apollo-mana­ged funds and…

Malsch/ London/ Munich — Will­kie Farr & Gallag­her LLP has advi­sed Plati­num Equity on the acqui­si­tion and finan­cing of the…

Munich — Inter­na­tio­nal law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has advi­sed funds advi­sed and mana­ged by Oakt­ree Capi­tal Management,…

Paris/ Frank­furt a. M. — Ardian, one of the world’s leading inde­pen­dent invest­ment compa­nies, has raised EUR 530 million for…

Frank­furt — Index Ventures is lead inves­tor in the $300 million invest­ment round of DeepL, a leading German arti­fi­cial intelligence…

Zug, Switz­er­land — Bregal Unter­neh­mer­ka­pi­tal (“BU”), one of the most active and the largest private equity firm in the DACH…

Lyon / Frank­furt / London — Bridge­point and LumApps have announ­ced the upco­ming invest­ment of Bridge­point Europe VII (“BE VII”),…

Berlin — The share­hol­ders of the AI start-up Aaron.ai have sold to the French e‑health company Docto­lib. With the acquisition…

Munich/ Frank­furt a. M. — Clever­soft, a port­fo­lio company of private equity inves­tor Levine Leicht­man Capi­tal Part­ners (LLCP), acqui­res Tetralog…

Aachen — The sustainable end-to-end battery recy­cling company cylib closes its Series A finan­cing round of 55 million. The financing…

Berlin — Captain T Cell GmbH, a biotech­no­logy company deve­lo­ping next-gene­ra­tion T cells against solid tumors, has successfully closed a…

Hamburg/Alsdorf — Invest­corp Tech­no­logy Part­ners has acqui­red the VEDA Group. The Cana­dian Impe­rial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) reali­zed the €17…

Zurich/Unterkulm/Pogno — The KWC Group, desi­gner and manu­fac­tu­rer of faucets and access­ories for kitchens, bath­rooms and wash­rooms and part of…

Munich — FSN Capi­tal, a private equity firm with offices in Scan­di­na­via and Germany, has successfully comple­ted fund­rai­sing for a…

Colo­gne, May 2024 — Armira Growth has raised €200 million for its first growth fund with a final closing volume…

The Hague — Main Capi­tal Part­ners is plea­sed to announce the successful sale of the Dutch company Opti­mi­zers to Orisha.…

Gütersloh/London — Oakley Capi­tal (“Oakley”), a leading pan-Euro­pean mid-market private equity inves­tor, has acqui­red a majo­rity stake in vitro­con­nect, a…

Munich — H&Z Unter­neh­mens­be­ra­tung AG advi­sed funds advi­sed by PREMIUM Equity Part­ners GmbH on the acqui­si­tion of a majo­rity stake…

Amster­dam / Munich — Funds advi­sed by Castik Capi­tal S.à r.l. (“Castik”) have signed an agree­ment to acquire a majority…

Düsseldorf/Munich — McDer­mott Will & Emery has advi­sed the Euro­pean produc­tion and distri­bu­tion studio Vuelta Group on the acqui­si­tion of…

Stutt­gart — Menold Bezler has advi­sed seve­ral share­hol­ders of the Stutt­gart-based AI specia­list Parsio­nate on the sale of their shares…

Zug / Frechen — Build­Tec Soft­ware Group, foun­ded by funds advi­sed by Bregal Unter­neh­mer­ka­pi­tal (“BU”), acquire a majo­rity stake in…

Wies­ba­den / Zwin­gen­berg — BRAIN Biotech AG, a company specia­li­zing in bio-based products and solu­ti­ons such as enzy­mes and proteins…

Munich, May 6, 2024 — Perusa Part­ners Fund II L.P. has sold its shares in the PROLED Group to the…

Frank­furt — Will­kie Farr & Gallag­her LLP has advi­sed PAI Part­ners (“PAI”) on the acqui­si­tion of a majo­rity stake in…

Berlin — good­car­bon secu­res €5.25 million in funding to bring new high-quality nature-based solu­ti­ons to market and enable compa­nies to…