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Vintage Investment Partners has raised $290m for the first close of its firth fifth fund of venture funds.

Real Estate Technology Ventures has closed its first fund on $108m of commitments to invest in real estate technology companies.

American Industrial Partners has agreed to buy Armstrong Flooring Inc‘s wood flooring business for $100m.

PE major Blackstone has agreed to sell its Australasian chemicals business Ixom to Keppel Infrastructure in deal valuing the business at A$1.1bn ($792m).

Lone Star Funds and Asana Partners have picked up to $75m of commitments from The Los Angeles Fire & Police Pension System.

Tech investment major TCV has promoted long-serving software, fintech and IT exec Nari Ansari to general partner.

Venture capital investment giant SoftBank Vision Fund has boosted software bot developer Automation Anywhere's already hefty outside capital with $300m of new money.

Dunes Point Capital, the private equity house set up by former Blackstone and GSO Capital exec Tim White, has passed the $375m mark for its ongoing debut fundraise.

The Riverside Company has ended its six-year investment in dental, medical and cosmetic brand design and manufacturing business Team Technologies through a sale to Clearlake Capital.

Consumer-focused private equity house Swander Pace Capital has bought artisan European-style bread, roll and bun business Bäckerhaus Veit.