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.


Effective June 10, 2020 The Scherzer Deal Report will be released on Wednesdays.



PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
Atlas Venture Cambridge, MA $400M Twelfth fund
Balbec Capital New York, NY $1.2B Fourth global credit fund
Mercato Partners Salt Lake City, UT $90M Fund focused on restaurants
Meritech Capital Partners Palo Alto, CA $800M Seventh later-stage VC fund
Petra Capital Partners Nashville, TN $208M Fourth private equity fund
Wing VC Palo Alto, CA $450M Third early stage fund

Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
Silversmith Capital Partners Appfire $49M Boston, MA-based provider of apps for software development teams
Blue Sage Capital Barricades Unlimited Undisclosed Lubbock, TX-based provider of traffic control, pavement markings, guardrail installation equipment and services
Brynwood Partners Buitoni  Undisclosed North American division of Italian pasta brand


Venture Capital Investors Company  Amount Description
Perceptive Advisors, RTW Investments, Viking Global Investors, Venrock, Franklin Templeton, Rock Springs Capital, LifeSci Venture Partners, Surveyor Capital, Highside Capital Management, Logos Capital, Janus Henderson Investors, Sofinnova, Avidity Partners, Sahsen Ventures Athira Pharma $85M Seattle, WA-based regenerative medicine startup focused on neurological diseases
Valor Equity Partners, Rockwell Automation, Inc., ABB Technology Ventures, Atreides Managemen Atom Power $17.75M Charlotte, NC-based digital circuit breaker
UBS, J.P. Morgan, Barclays Cloud9 Technologies $17.5M New York-based trader collaboration and analytics platform
MPM Capital, F2 Ventures Cullinan Oncology $98.5M Cambridge, MA-based developer of cancer drugs
Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, GV, Foresite Capital, TPG Capital, First Round Capital DNAnexus $100M Mountain View, CA-based provider of biomedical informatics and data management
Yonjin Venture, Varian Medical Systems, J&J, Venture Investors, Lumira Ventures, State of Wisconsin Investment Board HistoSonics $40M Plymouth, MN-based developer of noninvasive robotic platform and sonic beam therapy
Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Stripes, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Felicis Ventures, 3KVC, Gaingels, Penna & Co. Hyperscience $60M New York-based data automation startup
Insight Partners Inky $20M College Park, MD-based anti-phishing startup
Goldman Sachs jSonar $50M Waltham, MA-based database security startup
Edison Partners Superpedestrian $15M Boston, MA-based scooter fleet developer
Saudi Aramco, BECO Capital, Cue Ball Group Wahed Invest $25M New York-based online Islamic investment platform
8VC, WiPro, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital Yugabyte $30M Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of open-source distributed SQL databases