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The Scherzer Deal Report: Feb 19-26, 2020

Here is this week’s Deal Report for private equity and venture capital activity for US-based PE and VC firms and portfolio companies, brought to you by Scherzer International.

PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
Corsair Capital  New York, NY $1B Fifth private equity fund 
Fifth Wall Ventures Los Angeles, CA $100M Fifth Wall Ventures Retail Fund
Lakestar Zurich, Switzerland $735M European investment funds
M33 Growth Boston, MA $260M Second fund
MPM Capital Boston, MA $100M MPM Oncology Innovations Fund (INV)
QED Investors Alexandria, VA $350M Sixth fund
Ridgewood Infrastructure New York, NY $600M Debut private equity fund
Speedinvest Vienna, Austria €190 m Third pan-European VC fund
Ubiquity Ventures Palo Alto, CA $40M Second fund

Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
TA Associates AffiniPay Undisclosed Austin, TX-based payments tech company
BlackRock Long Term Private Capital Creed Undisclosed London-based luxury fragrance company
Sverica Capital Management Cytracom Undisclosed Allen, TX-based provider of cloud-based voice and messaging solutions for MSPs
Siris Capital Digital River $50M Minneapolis, MN-based e-commerce enabler for brands
Brookstone Partners Hudson Valley Undisclosed New Hampton, NY-based mitigation and restoration company
The Blackstone Group  iQ £4.66B British student housing company
The Stephens Group Kele Undisclosed Memphis, TN-based distributor of building automation peripherals and controls solutions
The Carlyle Group Mak-System Undisclosed Brussels-based provider of blood management software
Align Capital Partners Marco Rubber & Plastics Undisclosed Seabrook, NH-based distributor of elastomer components
NEXT Investors NorthPoint Undisclosed Reston, VA-based product suite and technology consulting practice
Wynnchurch Capital Penn Machine Undisclosed Aston, PA-based maker of high-pressure forged fittings and branch connections
Industrial Opportunity Partners PolyVision Undisclosed Johns Creek, GA-based maker of surfaces used in whiteboards and chalkboards
BV Investment Partners TopBloc Undisclosed Chicago, IL-based Workday services partner
Hellman & Friedman, Blackstone Group Ultimate Software and Kronos Undisclosed Merger to create one of the largest human capital management (HCM) and workforce management cloud solutions
Searchlight Capital Partners, ForgeLight Univision Undisclosed Nation’s largest Spanish-language broadcaster

Venture Capital Investors Company  Amount Description
Xeraya Capital, Longview Ventures, Catalyst Health Ventures, BioStar Ventures, Cedar Point Capital, Frontcourt Group Aria CV $31M St. Paul, MN-based developer of medical devices for treating pulmonary arterial hyperextension
Acrew Capital, Munich Re Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Shlomo Kramer At-Bay $34M Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity insurance startup
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Behavox $100M New York-based provider of compliance and employee-monitoring software
Undisclosed DigitalOcean $100M New York-based cloud infrastructure company
Cobalt Capital, Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, PJC, Fuel Capital, Wildcat Capital Management  Feather $30M New York-based furniture rental servic
SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners Flock Freight $50M Solana Beach, CA-based freight logistics matching platform
LS Corp., Forte Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, GE Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, March Capital Partners, Darling Ventures FogHorn $25M Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of edge computing intelligence software
Dell Technologies Capital, Iconiq Capital, Tiger Global Management, Kearny Jackson, Alpha Square Group HeadSpin $60M Palo Alto, CA-based provider of mobile app performance software
Health Velocity Capital, USVP, Chicago Ventures, Epic Ventures HealthJoy $30M Chicago, IL-based employee benefits platform
Anterra Capital Invetx $15M Boston, MA-based veterinary medicine startup
14W, Mangrove Capital, Anthem, Lerer Hippeau, Primary Ventures K Health $48M New York-based digital primary care service
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Karius $165M Redwood City, CA-based startup that tests for and identifies infectious diseases
Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Canaan, Launchub Leanplum $27M San Francisco, CA-based provider of customer engagement software tools
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, The Engine, Lowercarbon Capital, The Grantham Foundation Lilac Solutions $20M Oakland, CA-based lithium mining technology company,
Dawn Capital, Battery Ventures, Goldman Sachs, ProSieben, Qumra Capital, Vintage Investments, Gemini Ventures, North Base Media, La Maison, Remagine Ventures, Hamilton Lane, Maor Investments Minute Media $40M New York-based sports media company that recently acquired The Player’s Tribune
RPS Ventures, Founder’s Circle Capital, IAC, Foundry Group, Crosslink Capital, Uncork Capital, TransLink Capital Molekule $58M San Francisco, CA-based developer of connected indoor air purifiers
DCVC Bio, 8VC, Novo Holdings, Future Tech Labs, AgFunder, Susa Ventures, Cthulhu Ventures, Wireframe Ventures MycoWorks $17M San Francisco, CA-based developer of a leather alternative
Charter Communications, Qualcomm, Belkin, Service Electric Cablevision, Liberty Global, Shaw Communication Plume $60M Palo Alto, CA-based consumer experience management platform for smart home services
Toyota Pony.ai $462M California and China-based self-driving car startup
Andreessen Horowitz Q Bio $40M San Carlos, CA-based quantitative, clinically-relevant assessment of personal human health
CDK Global, Kleiner Perkins, GV, SVB, Lux Capital, Tyche Partners, Icon Ventures, Baidu, Steve Wozniak Ripcord $45M Hayward, CA-based robotics digitization startup
Andreessen Horowitz, Temasek, Tencent, Altos Ventures, Meritech Capital, Tiger Global Management Roblox $150M San Mateo, CA-based gaming platform
BlackRock, Intel Ventures, GV, Walden International, WRVI Capital, Redline Capital SambaNova Systems $250M Palo Alto, CA-based developer of software-defined AI hardware
Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake ServiceMax $80M Pleasanton, CA-based provider of field service management software
ABS Capital Partners, Causeway Media Partners, Jim Lombardi SquadLocker $20M Warwick, RI-based provider of custom apparel and equipment purchasing software for teams and organizations
Jump Capital, Granite Point Capital, Jerry Hausman, Ed Baker Teikametrics $15M Boston, MA-based startup that offers tools to brands and sellers on Amazon and Walmart
Georgian Partners, Insight Partners, Ignition Partners Tractable $25M London-based insuretech startup
Aquiline Technology Growth, World Innovation Lab, Goldman Sachs Unqork $51M New York-based no-code enterprise app platform
NextWorld Van Leeuwen $18.7M Brooklyn, NY-based artisanal ice cream brand

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The Scherzer Deal Report: Feb 12-19, 2020

Here is this week’s Deal Report for private equity and venture capital activity for US-based PE and VC firms and portfolio companies, brought to you by Scherzer International.

PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
Align Capital Partners Dallas, TX and Cleveland, OH $450M Second private flagship fund
ForgePoint Capital San Francisco, CA $450M Second fund
Marcy Venture Partners San Francisco, CA $85M Flagship venture capital fund
Odyssey Investment Partners New York, NY $3.25B Sixth middle-market buyout fund
Pamlico Capital Charlotte, NC $1.4B Fifth flagship fund

Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
TA Associates Auction Technology Group Undisclosed London and Omaha, NE-based online auctions platform
Platinum Equity Biscuit International Undisclosed Paris-based manufacturer of private label cookies
Amherst Residential Front Yard Residential Undisclosed U.S. Virgin Islands-based real estate investment trust company
Thompson Street Capital Partners Len the Plumber Undisclosed Baltimore-DC metropolitan-based full-service residential plumbing contractor

Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
Norwest Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, True Ventures, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Ram Shriram, Maynard Webb Investment Aisera $20M Palo Alto, CA-based robotic process automation startup
Integrity Growth Partners Algo $15M Troy, MI-based supply chain technology company
WAVE Equity Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures, Marubeni Corporation Carbon Clean Solutions $16M London-based carbon dioxide separation technology company
Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global Management, Adage Capital Management Flywire $120M Boston, MA-based vertical payments company
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, NewView Capital, Upfront Venture GumGum $22M Santa Monica, CA-based computer vision and natural language processing company
ForgePoint Capital Huntress Labs $18M Elliott City, MD-based cybersecurity startup
CDC Group iMerit $20M Los Gatos, CA-based data annotation and enrichment company
Icon Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Oak HC/FT, Spring Mountain Capital, Female Founders Fund, Harmony Partners, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Mindy Kaling Maven $45M New York-based company providing employee benefits focused on women’s health and family planning
Coatue Management, Insight Partners OneTrust $210M Atlanta, GA-based cybersecurity company
NEA, 8VC Outrider $53M Golden, CO-based startup developing robots for warehouse yards
Optum Ventures Scipher Medicine $25M Waltham, MA-based developer of a molecular technology platform
Insight Partners, Tiger Global Management, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, Vista Public Strategies of Vista Equity Partners, Third Point Ventures SentinelOne $200M Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity company
Bessemer Venture Partners, TPG, Greenoaks Capital, Tiger Global Management, Durable Capital Partners, TCV, G Squared, Light Street Capital, Alta Park Capital Toast $400M Boston, MA-based maker of payment processing hardware and software for restaurants
Benesse Holdings Udemy $50M San Francisco, CA-based online education company
Artiman Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Abies Ventures, Asahi Kasei Corporation, Hui Capital, Sony Innovation Fund UltraSense Systems $20M San Jose, CA-based maker of touch user interface technology using 3D ultrasound
Sequoia Capital India, Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Cisco Investments Whatfix $32M San Jose, CA-based provider of digital enterprise tool
Intel Capital, NEA, Highland Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management, Hercules Capital, Core Capital ZeroFox $74M Baltimore, MD-based cybersecurity company

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The Scherzer Deal Report: Feb 5-12, 2020

Here is this week’s Deal Report for private equity and venture capital activity for US-based PE and VC firms and portfolio companies, brought to you by Scherzer International.

PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
A/O PropTech London, England €250M Debut fund
Battery Ventures Boston, MA $2B Battery Ventures XIII $1.2B fund and Battery Ventures XIII Side fund with $800M
KKR New York, NY $1.3B First global impact investing fund

Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
Post Capital Partners Agile Sourcing Partners Undisclosed Corona, CA-based BPO company for the electric and gas utility, commercial construction, security, and telecom markets
AE Industrial Partners American Pacific Undisclosed Cedar City, UT-based chemical manufacturer for U.S. government military and space programs
Apax Partners Cadence Education Undisclosed Scottsdale, AZ-based early childhood education provider
Industrial Opportunity Partners Competition Cams Undisclosed Memphis, TN-based maker camshaft and valvetrain-related components for the automotive aftermarket
 Investcorp Fortune International Undisclosed Bensenville, IL-based distributor of seafood and gourmet food products
Trilantic North America Gorilla Commerce Undisclosed Westport, CT-based direct-to-consumer home and pet product development platform
One Rock Capital Partners Innophos $932M Cranbury, NJ-based food additives maker
Entrepreneurial Equity Partners Kronos Foods Corp. Undisclosed Glendale Heights, IL-based provider of Mediterranean food products
Gryphon Investors Pacur Undisclosed Oshkosh, WI-based provider of specialty plastic packaging materials for the medical device industry
Brentwood Associates Parchment Undisclosed Scottsdale, AZ-based digital credentialing service
EQT Partners Rimes Technology Undisclosed New York-based provider of financial data management and regulatory software
Westhook Capital Santa Rita Landscaping Undisclosed Tucson, AZ-based provider of commercial landscaping services
RedBird Capital Partners, CJ Entertainment, Tencent Skydance Media Undisclosed Hollywood, CA-based film studio 
Morgenthaler Private Equity Teel Plastics Undisclosed Baraboo, WI-based manufacturer of custom plastic tubing
Washington Equity Partners Tube Bending Undisclosed Apple Valley, CA-based manufacturer and fabricator of tubing and tubing assemblies

Venture Capital Investors Company  Amount Description
AccelFoods, New Crop Capital, Green Monday Ventures, Blue Horizon Alpha Foods $28M New York-based provider of vegetarian prepared meals
Venrock, Andreessen Horowitz Astranis $90M San Francisco, CA-based commercial satellite startup
Insight Partners Carbon Relay $63M Boston, MA-based startup focused on optimizing app performance in Kubernetes environments
ForgePoint Capital, Trend Forward Capital Cysiv $26M Dallas, TX-based SOC-as-a-service startup
WRVI Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Redline Capital, Acorn Pacific Ventures Datometry $17M San Francisco,CA-based data warehouse virtualization startup
Millennium New Horizons, Unbound, LG, Nvidia Deep Instinct $43M US-Israeli cybersecurity startup
Osparie Ag Science, Spark Capital Freight Farms $15M Boston, MA-based maker of vertical-farming containers
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 Habu $15M US based developer of “omni-channel orchestration for the entire customer journey
blisce,  Waverley Capital, Times Bridge Headspace $53M Santa Monica, CA-based meditation app maker
Cyrus Capital Partners, State Farm Ventures, Upfront Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Greycroft HopSkipDrive $22M Los Angeles, CA-based ride-share company focused on kids and families
Northpond Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Vertical Venture Partners Intabio $18M Newark, CA-based developer of instrumentation systems for biotherapeutic precision analysis and quality assessment
Premji Invest, Cox Enterprises, Temasek F-Prime Capital, Devonshire Investors, .406 Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Polaris Partners, Khosla Ventures Iora Health $126M Boston, MA-based primary care provider that focuses on Medicare patients over 65
Bain Capital Life Sciences, Andera Partners, GIMV, Legend Capital, NeoMed Management, RMM, Valiance Life Sciences, VI Partners JenaValve Technology $50M Irvine, CA-based developer of replacement heart valves
Greycroft, Maveron, Abstract Ventures Landing $20M San Francisco, CA membership-based provider of finished urban apartments
Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital, Matrix Partners India, Ventureast MoEngage $25M San Francisco, CA and Bangalore-based customer engagement and insights startup
Sequoia Capital, CPPIB, PSP Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Base Partners, Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Social Capital Netskope $340M Los Altos, CA-based cloud access security broker,
Accel, Two Sigma Ventures, Heavybit, Prime Set, Bedrock Capital Radar $20M Brooklyn, NY-based location data infrastructure startup
Dragoneer Investment Group, Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Iconiq Capital, Madrona Venture Group, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures Snowflake $479M San Mateo, CA-based cloud data warehousing company
Arch Venture Partners, Milky Way Ventures, 8VC, Lyell Immunopharma Sonoma Biotherapeutics $40M San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA-based developer of regulatory T-cell treatments for autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases
Cardinal Health, Novartis, Gilead Sciences, Canaan Partners, Threshold Ventures, Section 32, LifeForce Capital, Casdin Capital, Hive Ventures Vineti $35M San Francisco, CA-based developer of logistics software for cell and gene therapies

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The Scherzer Deal Report: Jan 29 – Feb 5, 2020

Here is this week’s Deal Report for private equity and venture capital activity for US-based PE and VC firms and portfolio companies, brought to you by Scherzer International.

PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
Trivest Partners Miami, FL $670M Trivest Growth Investment Fund II (“TGIF II”) and the Trivest Discovery Fund
Turn/River Capital San Francisco, CA $420M Fourth fund
Vestar Capital Partners New York, NY $1.1B Seventh middle-market buyout fund
Andreessen Horowitz Menlo Park, CA $750M Third life sciences  fund
ArcLight Capital Boston, MA $3.4B Seventh energy infrastructure fund
Industry Ventures San Francisco, CA $125M Debut tech buyout fund
U.S. Venture Partners Menlo Park, CA $340M Twelfth early-stage VC fund
Ecosystem Investment Partners Baltimore, MD $455M Fourth fund
Generate Capital San Francisco, CA $1B New fund

Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
Advent International Forescout Technologies $1.9B San Jose, CA-based device visibility and control company
Freeman Spogli Galco Undisclosed Madison Heights, MI-based distributor of MRO industrial electronic components
Black Dragon Capital Grass Valley Undisclosed Montreal-based provider of broadcast equipment and solutions
New Mountain Capital ILC Dover Undisclosed Frederica, DE-based maker of engineered products
Kriya Capital Medstat Accounts Receivables Management Undisclosed Mesa, AZ-based provider of revenue cycle services for medical professionals
Lakeview Capital The Mochi Ice Cream Co. Undisclosed Los Angeles, CA-based maker of branded mochi ice cream
Frontenac XanEdu Undisclosed Ann Arbor, MI-based provider of customized digital and print course materials

Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
SoftBank Vision Fund 2, GreenOaks Capital, Jackson Square Ventures, Olive Tree Capital, Zola Global Alto $250M San Francisco, CA-based digital pharmacy
Cottonwood Venture Partners, Mercury Fund Ambyint $15M Calgary-based AI-powered production and artificial lift optimization
Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Angular Ventures, Silvertech Ventures Aquant $30M New York-based service intelligence platform
Koch Disruptive Technologies, CRV, CrowdStrike Automox $30M Boulder, CO-based cyber hygiene platform provider
Koito Manufacturing Cepton Tech $50M San Jose, CA-based developer of LiDAR solutions
Eclipse Venture ClearMetal $15M San Francisco, CA-based Continuous Delivery Experience “CDX” for supply chains and logistics solutions
Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Cresta $21M San Francisco, CA-based AI platform for customer service
Activant Capital, 8VC, GLP, Ryan Peterson Deliverr $40M San Francisco, CA-based delivery fulfilment startup
NewRoad Capital Partners, Greycroft, 9Yards Emerge $20M Phoenix, AZ-based digital freight marketplace
Sequoia Capital, Activant Capital, Inspired Capital, Acrew Capital, Bain Capital Ventures Finix $35M San Francisco, CA-based payments infrastructure platform
Imaginary Ventures, Wittington Ventures, Fifth Wall, Lerer Hippeau, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, M3 Ventures, The University of Chicago, Collaborative VC, Wasson Enterprise, Bluestein Associates, Barshop Ventures Foxtrot $17M Chicago, IL-based online convenience store
Bessemer Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, Insight Partners, Atomico, 11.2 Capital, Quadrille Capital, Heuristic Capital Hinge Health $90M San Francisco, CA-based digital physical therapy platform
Morpheus Ventures, Alpha Edison,  PSP Growth HouseCanary $65M San Francisco, CA-based home valuation company
McKesson Ventures, Define Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Brook Byers, Marc Benioff Lightship $20M Los Angeles, CA-based direct-to-patient clinical research startup
Perceptive Advisors, Clifton Capital, RA Capital Management, Soleus Capital, ArrowMark Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Intersouth Partners Lyra Therapeutics $30M Watertown, MA-based biotech focused on ear, nose and throat disease
Verily, Decheng, NFX, Mayfield, Brook Byers, Jeff Huber Mammoth Biosciences $45M San Francisco, CA-based CRISPR disease detection platform
AME Cloud Ventures, DataCore Software, Insight Partners MayaData $26M Palo Alto, CA-based container attached storage provider for Kubernetes
NEA, Apax Digita, Santo Domingo Family, Comerica Bank, TriplePoint Capital Moda Operandi $100M New York-based fashion discovery platform
MIG Capital, Western Digital Capital, Orange Digital Ventures, Partech Ventures, BGV, Plug-N-Play NGD Systems $20M Irvine, CA-based computational storage startup
SBI Holdings OpenLegacy $20M Princeton, NJ-based enterprise API integration platform
D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity, Partner Fund Management, T. Rowe. Price, Perceptive Advisors Outset Medical $125M San Jose, CA-based developer of an all-in-one dialysis device
DNX Ventures, Battery Ventures, Epic Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Wildcat Ventures, Leap Global Partners, BlueRun Ventures Paystand $20M Scotts Valley, CA-based commercial payments platform
Vulcan Capital, Durable Capital Partners Rad Power Bikes $25M Seattle, WA-based e-bike brand and retailer
Oak HC/FT, Felicis Ventures, Prologis, Craft Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, Struck Capital, Stage 2 Capital Sendoso $40M San Francisco, CA-based sending platform for e-gifts and customer engagement
Vertical Venture Partners, Grayhawk Capital, Ankona Capital, Blossom Street Ventures SOCi $15M San Diego, CA-based localized marketing platform
Yamasa, Pontifax AgTech, Partech Partners, Azure Capital Partners, Next Equity The Bouqs Co. $30M Venice Beach, CA-based online flower retailer
Accel, Floodgate, Weatherford Capital, Ballast Point Ventures, Silverton Partners The Zebra $38.5M Austin, TX-based auto insurance marketplace
GV, Bain Capital Ventures, Casdin Capital, Define Ventures Verana Health $100M San Francisco, CA-based clinical database

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