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Denver-based Bow River Capital has raised $160m for the final close of its oversubscribed software-focused growth fund.

Spanish buyout house Nazca Capital has completed its first investment for Fund V, through the acquisition of lighting rental business Cinelux.

Chinese VC Plum Ventures has raised RMB 532.5m ($77.5m) to close its fifth angel fund, bringing its total amount raised over the last 12 months to over RMB 1bn.

HIG Capital is looking to outdo the $1.75bn raised for its sophomore mid-market buyout fund after registering its successor with US regulators.

PAI Partners has led an investor consortium to make a €885m cash offer for Dutch healthy food producer Koninklijke Wessanen.

Rubicon Partners has sealed the £115m sale of aircraft engine maintenance supply chain business Farsound to AGIC Capital after eight years in its portfolio.

The $690bn-managing Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is steeling itself for headwinds in the private equity market following signs of increasing caution in the market last year.

European buyout house AnaCap Financial Partners has secured a 50 per cent IRR return on the sale of its business intelligence company Ellisphere.

Venture capital firms are being unjustly punished by the traditional 8 per cent hurdle rate used across alternative assets, new research suggests.

Are the unduly overlooked European Union members to the east where Europe's big investment opportunity lies? Gabriella Kindert, a special advisor to Polish investment specialist CVI makes the case for the EU's Accession Countries.