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.


The Scherzer Deal Report is released on Tuesdays.



PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
1868 Ventures Columbus, OH $50M Scotts Miracle-Gro launched a $50 million corporate venture arm
Addition New York, NY $1.3B Debut VC fund led by ex-Tiger Global investor Lee Fixel
KKR New York, NY $10B Third Asia buyout fund


Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
Ridgemont Equity Partners American Safety Council Undisclosed Orlando, FL-based provider of mandatory training, education, and certification solutions to regulated end market
Charlesbank Capital Partners  Aptean Undisclosed Alpharetta, GA-based ERP software company
HGGC, Level Equity Aventri Undisclosed Norwalk, CT-based provider of event management software
Elm Street Technology IDX Broker Undisclosed Eugene, OR-based provider of real estate search applications and marketing solutions
Flagship Pioneering, Alaska Permanent Fund, Riverstone Holdings Indigo Ag $300M Charlestown, MA-based developer of crop sustainability and selling solutions
Investindustrial Knoll $164M East Greenville, PA-based furniture maker
The Carlyle Group  Piramal Pharma $490M Indian drugmaker
The Carlyle Group Unison Undisclosed Dulles, VA-based provider of procurement and contract management software to federal government agencies and contractors
Bain Capital  Virgin Australia Holdings Undisclosed Largest Australian airline by fleet size to use the Virgin brand
Warburg Pincus WEX Inc. $400M Portland, ME-based corporate credit card provider
Clearlake Capital Group WhiteStar Asset Management Undisclosed Dallas, TX-based CLO specialist


Venture Capital Investors Company  Amount Description
5AM Ventures, venBio Partners, RA Capital Management, Medivate Partners, GC LabCell, and GC Artiva Biotherapeutics $78M San Diego, CA-based developer of allogeneic natural killer cell therapies
Insight Partners, New Leaf Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures BrightInsight $40M San Jose, CA-based regulated digital health platform for biopharma and medtech
Andreessen Horowitz, Kaiser Permanente, Kinnevik, Thrive Capital, Lakestar, Founders Fund Cedar $102M New York-based health care financial engagement platform
Craft Ventures, Georgian Partners ClickUp $35M San Diego, CA-based project management app
Barclays, Citi, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Canaccord Genuity, Franklin Templeton, StageDotO, Shea Ventures CMG $25M New York-based provider of workflow and real-time data analytics for capital markets transactions
FTV Capital Derivative Path $35M San Francisco, CA-based provider of solutions for OTC interest rate derivative and for-ex transactions
Optum Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Humana, Alta Partners, Questa Capital, Echo Health Ventures DispatchHealth $136M Denver, CO-based in-home health care startup
Activate Capital, Forte Ventures, Evonik VC, Kerogen Digital Solutions, High Tide Foundation, Kleiner Perkins Green Growth, Ajax Strategies, Blue Bear Capital, Schneider Electric Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, ABB Tech Ventures Element $18M San Francisco, CA-based “industrial data hub”
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Finistere Ventures, Novalis LifeSciences, Germin8 Ventures, TO Ventures Food, Anterra Capital,  Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund Enko Chem $45M Woburn, MA-based developer of crop protection solutions
MCIF, APF, Sayan Bioventures, BioStar Capital, Kairos Ventures, Caltech Foldax $20M Salt Lake City, UT-based artificial heart valve developer
Point Ventures, Initialized Capital, Founders Fund, SaaStr, House Fund HelloOffice $20M San Francisco-based commercial real estate brokerage making
Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, Dell Technologies Capital, Greycroft, Drive Capital, Citi Ventures Immuta $40M Boston-based automated data governance startup
8VC, Round13 Capital, Citi Ventures, Spark Capital, ScaleUp, Slack Fund Nylas $25M San Francisco, CA-based provider of communications APIs for developers
Wafra, Breyer Capital, LiveOak Venture Partners, Royal Bank of Canada, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures OJO Labs $62.5M Austin, TX-based maker of an AI assistant for the real estate industry
Obvious Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Point Judith Capital Openly $15M Boston, MA-based homeowners insurance platform
Fin VC, Tribe Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Lachy Groom, Anthemis, Craft Ventures, Fika Ventures, MaC Ventures Pipe $60M Los Angeles, CA-based SaaS subscription financing platform
Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, 468 Capital, Basis Set Ventures, Mango Capital Rasa $26M San Francisco, CA-based chatbots platform
Arch Venture Partners, Flagship Pioneering, CPPIB, Baillie Gifford, F-Prime Capital, Alaska Permanent Fund, PSP Investment Board, Bezos Expeditions, GV, Omega Funds, Altitude Life Science Ventures Sana Biotechnology $700M Seattle, WA-based gene regulation startup
Providence Strategic Growth SevenRooms $50M New York-based provider of hospitality guest management software
WuXi AppTec, Sequoia Capital China, Connecticut Innovations Simcha Therapeutics $25M New Haven, CT-based developer of drugs to modulate cytokine pathways
Longitude Capital, Optum Ventures, Deerfield Management, Blue Venture Fund, Flare Capital, Town Hall Ventures Somatus $64M McLean, VA-based provider of kidney disease diagnostics
Fidelity, Westcap, Inovia Capital, Greenoaks, Spark Capital, Greylock, Valor Equity, Tao Capital, Atreides Capital, Lennar Sonder $170M hotel and short-term apartment rental platform
Guggenheim Partners, UC Investments, Elisabeth Murdoch, SC Holdings SpringHill $100M new media company co-founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter
Recruit Strategic Partners, Flourish Ventures, Loeb Enterprises, Propel Venture Partners, CMFG Ventures Steady $15M Atlanta, GA-based startup that helps low- and mid-wage workers earn more money
Sapphire Ventures, GV, Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, DCM, Resolute Ventures UJet $55M San Francisco, CA-based provider of cloud customer support software