Lumora Ltd., a UK-based food safety diagnostics spinout from Cambridge University, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Tate & Lyle Ventures. It is Tate & Lyle's first transaction. www.tateandlyleventures.com
Blurb, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of book publishing services, has raised $2.5 million in debt financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. The company is backed by firms like anthem Venture Partners and Canaan Partners. www.blurb.com
Hispanic Yellow Pages of America, a platform acquisition portfolio company of Hispania Capital Partners, has completed its acquisitions of Travel Media Northwest Inc. and Hispanic Impact Media Inc., publishers of Spanish-language yellow pages in the Oregon-Washington-Idaho and Utah regions. No financial terms were disclosed. www.hypa.info www.hispaniapartners.com
RoadLink USA Inc., a North American provider of intermodal trucking and related logistics services has acquired Transus International LLC, a provider of intermodal trucking services in the southern United States. No financial terms were disclosed, except that Transus has $40 million in annual revenue. RoadLink is a portfolio company of Fenway Partners.
Wilks Broadcast Group LLC, a platform acquisition company of The Wicks Group of Cos., has completed its $138 million acquisition of radio stations in Kansas City and Columbus, Ohio from CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS). The stations are: KFKF(FM), KBEQ(FM), KMXV(FM) and KCKC(FM) in Kansas City, and WLVQ(FM), WHOK(FM) and WAZU(FM) in Columbus. www.wicksgroup.com
Knology Inc. (Nasdaq: KNOL) has agreed to acquire PrairieWave Communications Inc., a Sioux Falls, S.D.-based provider of communications services in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. The deal is valued at approximately $255 million, and is expected to close by June 30. PrairieWave is backed by Alta Communications and Banc of America Capital Investors. www.knology.com www.prairiewave.com
Divergent Capital Partners of Australia has sold its “significant” stake in Visean Information Services, a Houston, Texas-based data management software vendor to the upstream oil & gas industry, to global oilfield services company Weatherford International (NYSE: WFT). No financial terms were disclosed. http://www.divergent.com.au
Texas Pacific Group has offered to sell 7.5 million shares of retailer J. Crew (NYSE: JCG) in a secondary public offering. If successful, it would cut TPG's ownership position from 36% to 24 percent. www.jcrew.com
Great Pacific Capital has launched as a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based early-stage venture capital firm. The firm is managed by former Fastclick executives Dave Gross and Rusty Reed, and its initial fund is capped at under $50 million. www.greatpacificcapital.com
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has closed on $16.1 billion for its latest fund, according to LBO Wire. The final target remains $16.625 billion. Buyouts Magazine had reported a $16 billion close last week. www.kkr.com