Angela Sormani

Edge Capital Partners has hired Kendrick Mattox III, CFA, as a partner. Mattox will remain in his home base of Charlotte, North Carolina, to manage Edge Capital's office that is opening in Charlotte City Center at 525 North Tyron Street. He has advised families, institutions, and other sophisticated investors in the Carolinas for more than a decade.

Educational technology innovator Knewton has completed a $33 million round of funding, led by Founders Fund and Pearson, a global learning company. Returning investors include Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark Capital.

Citrix Systems has completed the acquisition of ShareFile(1), a market leading provider of secure, cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Anthemis Holdings, the strategic investment subsidiary of Anthemis Group SA, has closed a 1.87 million euro ($2.57 million) round of new investment in Fidor Bank AG, a provider of online financial services and e-commerce banking solutions.

WeatherBill has changed its company name to The Climate Corporation and has appointed former US senator Byron Dorgan to its board of directors.

Carlyle Group, Cerberus Capital Management and Platinum Equity are among the private equity firms interested in buying US auto parts maker Cooper Standard, but tough financing markets make a deal uncertain, people familiar with the matter said to Reuters.

Kabel Deutschland has announced a change in the company’s supervisory board. Ian West and the representatives of Providence Equity Partners John Hahn, Biswajit Subramanian and Robert Sudo will be leaving the supervisory board of Kabel Deutschland Holding AG. They will resign their positions effective October 31, 2011.

F&C Investments has announced the first close of F&C Climate Opportunity Partners LP, a new private equity fund of funds focusing on a climate change investment theme. The fund has attracted 30 million euros ($41.2 million) from three institutional investors.

T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom’s venture capital company, has backed Cost Xpert AG. The Augsburg-based innovative solutions provider main skillset the systematic cost estimation of IT/software projects.

Scott McNealy, founder of Sun Microsystems, has launched Wayin a unique mobile engagement service connecting users and enterprise partners anywhere, anytime. Wayin is a privately funded entity and has secured financing from investors across multiple sectors.