Challenge Online Games secured $4.5 million in funding in a Series A round from Sequoia Capital. The Austin, Texas-based company makes online games.
BestofMedia Group secured
Secerno Limited, a UK software and appliance supplier for database protection, received $16 million in a second round of funding. Amadeus Capital Partners led the investment with prior investors Eden Ventures and Spark Ventures participating.
Sulfercell raised
Accuri Cytometers secured $13 million in Series C financing from fundraising leaders and new investors Fidelity Biosciences and Flagship Ventures, as well as investors Arboretum Ventures and Baird Venture Partners. The life sciences business is based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Perfect Market secured $15.6 million in venture fundraising from Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, Square 1 Bank and founding investor Idealab. Perfect Market is a marketing company serving publishers. PASADENA, CALIF.
Apax Partners, Barclays Capital and Robert Tchenguiz may be close to selling Somerfield, the British supermarket, to The Co-operative Group, Reuters reported. A deal is not immanent, sources told Reuters, and Co-op would likely pay less than
Jay Powell has joined Global Environment Fund as a managing partner. Powell, a former Carlyle Group partner, will focus on clean technology. Powell had left Carlyle Group to co-found a private investment firm focused on industrial companies called Severn Capital Partners.
Hazem Shawki, Kashif Siddiqui and Walid Zein have left Goldman Sachs to join the private equity arm of EGF-Hermes, an Egyptian investment bank.
Stephen Brodsky will join Vernon & Park Capital, a private equity firm focused on the financial market and exchange sector. Brodsky will leave his position as the president of CHX Holdings, the parent company of the Chicago Stock Exchange, where he also served as the CFO and head of strategic planning for the exchange.