Year-End 2017 Private Placement Transactions Make For Merry 2018

• Kespry, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based aerial intelligence solution provider, raised $33 million in Series C funding led by G2VP, and was joined by investors including Shell Technology Ventures, Cisco Investments, and ABB Ventures

• LaunchDarkly, an Oakland, Calif.-based feature management platform, raised a $21 million in Series B funding led by Redpoint Ventures and Vertex.

• Noodle Partners, a New York firm that helps colleges decrease the cost of online higher education, raised about $14 million in Series A funding led by Owl Ventures.

• Pilotworks, New York City-based a community of food entrepreneurs formerly known as FoodWorks, raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Techstars Ventures and Acre Venture Partners.

• Earny, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based personal financial service, raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Mayfield and was joined by investors including Comcast Ventures and Science Inc.

• ChemomAb, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based biopharmaceutical firm, raised $10 million in funding led by OrbiMed Israel and Peter Thiel, who were joined by investors including SBI Japan-Israel Innovation Fund and Milestone Venture.

• NS8, an Arlington, Va.-based ecommerce fraud prevention provider, raised $7.5 million in funding led by Arbor Ventures, and was joined by investors including TDF Ventures and Hanna Ventures.

• VirtualHealth, New York City-based provider of population health and care management technologies, raised $7 million from investors led by Edison Partners.

• IRONSCALES, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company that combines human intelligence with  machine learning to automatically detect phishing emails, raised $6.5 million in Series A funding from investors including K1 Investment Management and RDC.

• Guardian Optical Technologies, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based sensor technology maker for automobile manufacturers, raised $5.1 million in Series A funding from Maniv Mobility and Mirai Creation Fund.

• Powerful, a Miami-based food and beverage company, raised $4 million from two separate funding rounds from investors including Cambridge Companies SPG, River Hallow Partners and Gerber Finance.

• Continuum Security,a Spain-based threat modeling startup, raised €1.5 million ($1.7 million) in funding, led by Swanlaab Venture Factory and was joined by investors including JME Venture Capital and Sonae IM.

• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo.-based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the “as a service” model, raised $1.4 million in a seed round led by Speedinvest and was joined by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider Capital.

• Black Dog Venture Partners acquired a ten percent stake in Wobbl3 Entertainment, a Salt Lake City-based video game developer. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• TPG Capital amended its deal to acquire Exactech, a Gainsville, Fla.-based orthopedic implant maker, for $49.25 per share rather than the previous amount of $42 per share.

• BV Investment Partners invested in Precision Nutrition, a Toronto-based nutrition certification and coaching software and services provider in North America. The Company’s co-founders will maintain a significant interest. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Munch Supply, a portfolio company of Rotunda Ventures, acquired O’Connor Company, a Kansas-based HVAC company. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Cirtec Medical, a portfolio company of 3i Group, acquired Vascotube, a Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany-based maker of precision-engineered nitinol tubing. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Great Range Capital led a group of investors that including The Bradley Family Office to acquire Labor Source, an Olathe, Kansas-based professional staffing company. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Nellson Nutraceutical, a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company, acquired Genysis Brand Solutions, Salt Lake City-based maker of functional powders. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Water Street acquired Alliance Life Sciences and Health Strategies Group, Somerset, N.J. and Lambertville N.J.-based life sciences commercialization firms. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Procare Software, a portfolio company of TA Associates, acquired KidReports, a Denver-based provider of real time reporting technology and services to child care providers. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. • Stone-Goff Partners invested in DSG, a Little Rock-based provider of outsourced sales training. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Jensen Hughes, a Baltimore, M.D.-based fire protection risk firm, acquired Russell Phillips & Associates, a Fairpoint, N.Y.-based fire safety company. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Tokyo Gas Co. agreed to acquire LNG, an integrated gas pipeline in Alaska, from The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation.

• Intuit agree to acquire TSheets, an Eagle, Id.-based  platform that businesses use to automate time tracking and scheduling for them and their workers, for $340 million.

• Lufax, a Chinese wealth management firm, has reportedly hired Citic Securities, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs to work on a $5 billion IPO, IFR reports citing sources. Lufax is backed by Ping An Insurance. Read more.

• ERT agreed to acquire iCardiac Technologies, a Rochester, New York-based laboratory for cardiac safety biomarkers, from Norwest. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• AEA Investors closed its previously announced acquisition of Excelitas Technologies, the Waltham, Massachusetts-based provider of photonics technology solution from Veritas Capital. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets agreed to acquire INEA, a Poznan, Poland-based telecom firm, from Warburg Pincus. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

• Astral Capital, a Boston-based venture capital firm, raised a $48.9 million venture fund, according to an SEC filing.

• Athyrium Capital Management and Neuberger Berman, both New York-based firms, raised $2.025 billion in their latest healthcare fund Athyrium Opportunities Fund III.

• Granite Growth Health Partners, a Stamford, Conn. and San Francisco-based growth equity firm, launched Monday. The firm invests $10 to $50 million in health services companies.

Year-End 2017 Private Placement Transactions Make For Merry 2018