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Duck Dynasty: Prospect Brands Expands With Civil War Era-Clothing Brand LBO Wire
Prospect Brands LLC, a consumer platform backed by McCarthy Capital, is expanding with the acquisition of khakis maker Duck Head Apparel Co.
- Sun European-Backed Albea Beauty Plans Dividend Payment LBO Wire
- PE Firm Led by Tom Lee Discusses Marketing Tactics for Next Fund LBO Wire
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ShapeUp Raises $7.5M to Expand Mobile and Global Employee Wellness Networks
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As it makes its health-related employee social networks more mobile and more global, ShapeUp Inc. says it has raised a Series A-2 financing of $7.5 million, a funding that follows a $5 million Series A round.
- U.K.'s Betable Banks $18.5M to Push Online Betting Tools VentureWire
- With 'Old School' Venture View, PivotNorth Raises $35M for Second Seed Fund VentureWire
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Affinity Equity Partners, a spinout from UBS Capital Asia, expects to hit the $3.5 billion hard cap of its fourth fund when the fund closes in the next couple of weeks, according to a person familiar with the fundraising process.
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Primary Data Raises $50M Led by Accel to Bridge Giant Pools of Storage
Former Fusion-io Inc. Chief Executive David Flynn revealed the existence of his new company, the data storage startup Primary Data, in August.
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M5 Labs Seeded With $500K to Launch Social Music App Listn
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Coho Data Raises $25M Series B for Cloud-Scale SDN Integrated Storage
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Concentrating Solar and Energy Storage Company Terrajoule Raises $11.5M Series A
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Duck Dynasty: Prospect Brands Expands With Civil War Era-Clothing Brand
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Warburg Sells Stake in Australian Waste Manager
Warburg Pincus reaped 562 million Australian dollars ($533.4 million) by recycling its stake in Transpacific Industries Group Ltd., Australia's biggest waste manager.
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Centro Buys Real-Time Bidding Platform SiteScout for Nearly $40M
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Software Developer Symbio Merges With IT Consultant Freeborders
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Goldner Hawn Hands Over Men's Shoemaker Allen Edmonds to Brentwood
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Nine Entertainment Launches Biggest Australian Media IPO
Just a year after it was pulled from the brink of insolvency, Nine Entertainment Co. announced an initial public offering that would give it a market value of around $2 billion, the biggest ever listing of an Australian media company.
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Infinis Energy Prices IPO at 260-310P, Dealings Expected Nov. 20
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Blackstone, ICBC to Acquire Stakes in Chinese Mall Developer SCP
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EMC Accuses Rival Pure Storage of Document Theft, Employee 'Raid'
Data storage giant EMC Corp. is accusing venture-backed rival Pure Storage Inc. of a concerted campaign to steal confidential information by hiring away dozens of EMC employees.
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Bitcoin Comes Under Senate Scrutiny
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IBM Hits Twitter With Patent Infringement Claims Ahead of IPO
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Apollo Seeks Investor Approval to Raise Cap on Latest Fund to $17.5B
Apollo Global Management is seeking to increase the cap on its Apollo Investment Fund VIII LP to $17.5 billion from the originally planned $15 billion, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.
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With 'Old School' Venture View, PivotNorth Raises $35M for Second Seed Fund
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Venture Capital Returns Rebound, But Beating Public Markets Remains a Challenge
A closely watched 10-year performance metric for U.S. venture capital climbed for the thirteenth consecutive quarter, a sign that the industry is getting healthier.
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Industry Data
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LPs Welcome Infrastructure Back Into the Fold
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Ex-AXA Chiefs in Secondaries Fund Talks
A private equity secondaries firm led by two former senior directors at AXA Private Equity is speaking to investors about raising its second fund, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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IFC Mulls $50M in Commitments to Three New Emerging Market Funds
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Former Zynga Security Head Puhlmann Joins Endgame as CTO
Nils Puhlmann, former Zynga Inc. chief security officer, is joining security solutions provider Endgame Inc. as its chief technology officer.
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Big Switch Networks Names Douglas Murray as CEO
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Scale Adds Former Netflix Exec Ariel Tseitlin as Venture Partner
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Alba Therapeutics Appoints President, COO Wendy Perrow as CEO
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Newly Launched Solace Capital Targets Midmarket Special Situations
A duo of former Oaktree Capital Management executives has formed Solace Capital Partners to target lower midmarket, special-situation investments, believing companies of that size have more limited access to capital than their larger peers.
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Buyout Debt Multiples Are at Highest Level Since 2007
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China Buys Its Way Into Silicon Valley
Chris Gordon may have his father partly to thank for his career at Bain Capital.