Japan’s SoftBank Group has taken a 9.7% stake in educational gaming company Kahoot by investing 1.98 billion Norwegian crowns ($216 million) in new equity, the Norwegian company said on Tuesday. Kahoot’s online platform of games-based learning and entertainment...
Seeking to assemble a diversified portfolio of Baltic-based companies, targeting deals with a ticket size of 10 million euros to 30 million euros showcasing high growth potential and the ability to compete on a truly global basis, the INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund, the...
The record-setting sums raised by Blackstone and other large private equity firms this year are unlikely to be matched in 2020, according to PitchBook. Private equity fundraising in North America and Europe hit another all-time high in 2019, driven in part by...
Danish serial entrepreneurs Mads Faurholt and Stefan Bruun have sold their stake in the comparison platform CompareAsiaGroup through their investment company Nova Founders Capital at a price that values the company at more than $200 million. The sale follows just...
According to Silverfleet Capital’s monitor, there were 368 add-on deals in the first half of 2019 Private equity-backed companies in Europe made 368 add-on acquisitions in the first half of the year — the highest ever recorded for the period since 1998, according to...