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Last updated: September 15, 2026, 2:04 PM ET

Goldman Sachs Alternatives Closes $11.7bn WSCP IX

Goldman Sachs Alternatives held the final close of West Street Capital Partners IX, gathering $11.7bn across the flagship fund and related vehicles. The close lands amid a broader thaw in private equity fundraising, with allocators returning to large-cap buyout vehicles after two years of distribution-starved portfolios.

Vista Explores Finastra Exit at Up to $12bn

Vista Equity Partners is weighing strategic options for Finastra, the financial software provider it built nearly a decade ago, with a sale among outcomes that could value the company at up to $12bn. The move would mark one of the largest software exits of the cycle and follows a stretch in which Vista has leaned on the exit playbook to unlock liquidity, with sellers increasingly focused on understanding the buyer's point of view from the first diligence session.

CPP and Brookfield Launch C$50bn Maple Fund

CPP Investments and Brookfield joined forces to create the Maple Fund, a partnership designed to deploy up to C$50bn ($35.9bn) of equity into large-scale infrastructure and strategic industries across Canada. The vehicle represents one of the largest domestic infrastructure commitments ever assembled and signals a coordinated push to keep Canadian pension capital invested at home.

CVC and JC Flowers Circle First Rand's Aldermore

CVC has joined forces with financial services specialist JC Flowers on a potential bid for Aldermore, the UK specialist bank that South Africa's First Rand is looking to offload, Reuters reported. A successful deal would rank among the largest European financial-services carve-outs this year and would mark CVC's return to UK banking assets.

KKR and Neuberger Take Minority Stake in Datavant

Neuberger and KKR agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in Datavant, the largest health data network in the US, in a deal that lets New Mountain Capital bring fresh capital into a decade-long healthcare bet. The transaction gives the buyers exposure to a health data ecosystem connecting patients, providers, payers and life science companies for patient-level data exchange. Separately, the same partnership was reported as a significant minority stake carved out from New Mountain, alongside Red Cloud Capital's investment in APS Environmental Group and Carlyle's decision to join the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium.

Eurazeo Completes Netco Buyout from Ardian

Eurazeo completed a majority buyout of Netco Group from Ardian. Netco provides critical maintenance services for conveyor systems used in vital industries across Europe, giving Eurazeo a resilient, infrastructure-adjacent services platform with recurring revenue characteristics.

KPS Sells Metra to Grupa Kęty for €645m

KPS Capital Partners agreed to sell Metra to Poland's Grupa Kęty for €645m. Metra, a manufacturer of extruded aluminum profiles headquartered in Rodengo Saiano, Italy, operates nine manufacturing facilities and employs about 1,400 people. The sale was flagged alongside a broader dealmaking outlook in which GPs remain optimistic even as attractive targets draw multiple suitors.

Carlyle Backs Avenrock's Parallax Buyout

Carlyle is backing the acquisition of Parallax Energy Operating, a Calgary-based oil and gas producer, through Avenrock Energy, a newly formed Canadian company it is supporting. It marks Carlyle's second Canadian oil bet in a year and underscores renewed private capital appetite for Western Canadian upstream assets.

Ichthys Completes Permian Basin Asset Sale

Post Oak-backed Ichthys Energy Partners completed the sale of its Permian Basin assets. Ichthys is a Dallas-based upstream company pursuing inventory aggregation and development across the Northern Delaware Basin, formed in partnership with Post Oak Energy Capital in 2024.

Loenbro Acquires Prism Electric in Largest Deal

Kohlberg-backed Loenbro acquired Prism Electric to expand across the US South. Prism Electric, founded in 1994 by Blake Combs, is a Texas- and Oklahoma-based electrical contractor with about 2,500 employees serving data center, healthcare, industrial and commercial customers. The transaction is Loenbro's largest to date and reflects the premium placed on electrical contractors tied to data center buildout.

Centauri Health Solutions Acquires Benny

Abry-backed Centauri Health Solutions acquired Benny the Benefits Navigator. Benny is an Iowa-based technology company whose AI-powered platform streamlines applications for public benefits, specializing in Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance.

Endpoint Clinical Adds Bluefin

Arsenal-backed Endpoint Clinical added clinical supply forecasting firm Bluefin. Boston-based Bluefin provides clinical supply forecasting and planning technology that helps sponsors and CROs manage demand, distribution and supply risk across the trial lifecycle.

Ranger Fire and Security Acquires Fire Protection Ireland

Inflexion-backed Ranger Fire and Security acquired Fire Protection Ireland. Founded in 2011 and based in Cavan, the target provides fire alarm, CCTV, fire training and intruder alarm services to public and private sector customers across Ireland.

Ambienta's Spaggiari Expands into Iberia and LATAM

Ambienta's Spaggiari acquired ESDS to expand into Iberia and Latin America. ESDS, founded in 2007, provides digital management-information-system software to more than 3,000 schools and 1.5m students across the two regions. The deal is Ambienta's first international add-on for Spaggiari, the school software and services developer it acquired in 2023.

Verlinvest Invests in Home Exchange

Verlinvest invested in home-swap platform HomeExchange. The platform lists more than 600,000 homes across 155 countries, with 2.3m travelers completing more than 11.8m overnight stays over the past year.

Red Cloud Capital Invests in APS Environmental

Red Cloud Capital made an investment in APS Environmental Group. Founded in 2019 by John DeGeorge, APS provides environmental testing, inspection, consulting and abatement services to restoration firms, insurance carriers and general contractors.

Copilot Backs Green Eagle in US Renewables

Copilot invested in Green Eagle Solutions, betting on rapid renewable deployment in the US. Green Eagle builds automation software for renewable energy operations, a segment attracting growing private capital as utilities scale intermittent generation.

Exein Raises $270m to Fight AI Hackers

Exein raised $270m to combat AI-enabled hacking, doubling its valuation. The round lands as European policymakers and executives debate AI safety and whether the continent has a coherent voice in setting global standards.

Euclyd Raises €200m Series A

Samsung and the EU Scaleup Fund backed efficient AI startup Euclyd in a €200m Series A. The round is among the largest European AI financings this year and highlights strategic corporate and public capital converging on energy-efficient model development.

Zero Secures $10.3m Seed for AI CRM Tools

Lovable, Supercell and Langdock founders backed Zero in a $10.3m seed round for AI CRM tools. The raise reflects continued angel and operator appetite for applied AI software despite a tougher venture funding environment.

Evvy Raises $40M for Women's Health Research

Women's health company Evvy announced a $40m Series B led by Catalio Capital Management. The company plans to further women's health research using vaginal microbiome data, an area that has drawn increasing investor attention.

Gordian Launches Secondaries Shop

Former Children's Health LP Yangge Seaman launched Gordian Investment Group, a secondaries shop focused on overlooked deals. After years of buying and selling secondaries as an allocator, Seaman argues that institutional investors often have the appetite and capital to pursue deals but lack the capacity to follow through.

Co-Investment Carry Rises as Demand Surges

Competition for co-investments is impinging on economics, with co-investment carry rising as demand surges. The same edition noted software specialist PSG hitting its hard-cap and a TPA expert at a sovereign wealth fund launching his own consultancy.

Red Bird Expands in APAC

Sports specialist RedBird received a licence to deal securities in Hong Kong, just months after appointing its first head of Australia. The move signals continued Asia-Pacific expansion by sports- and media-focused private capital.

Revolut's Storonsky Denies €350m Superyacht Debt

Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky hit back in a €350m superyacht court case in London, denying the debt claim. The dispute adds a personal legal dimension to the fintech's already crowded news cycle.

Revolut Faces Questions Over Data Breach

Revolut faces questions over a data breach after customer information was exposed, with critics calling the incident deeply concerning. The episode intensifies scrutiny of the neobank's security posture.

AI Governance Under Pressure in Europe

A UK MP called for scrutiny of the AI Security Institute as fears grow over the body's remit and effectiveness. Separately, experts warned that AI agents are moving faster than Europe can regulate, and analysts examined how AI is redefining corporate cyber-readiness.

AI Wealth Outpaces Financial Readiness

AI startups are reaching massive valuations and liquidity events so quickly that young founders and employees often acquire life-changing wealth before they are prepared to manage it, according to Crunchbase News. Ron Honig of Fro weighed in on the planning gap facing newly liquid tech employees.

AI Takes Growing Share of Sales and Marketing Funding

Startups across sales, marketing and customer management have raised $7.5bn so far this year, according to Crunchbase data. The largest rounds span advertising and customer data, with AI capturing a growing share of the total.

Top DACH and CEE Investors Ranked

Sifted published its ranking of the top 10 investors across DACH and CEE startups, a region drawing increasing attention from pan-European funds seeking earlier-stage exposure.

Tech Crunch Disrupt 2026 Exhibit Deadline Nears

With four days left, the last day to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt is Sept. The event runs October 13–15 and puts startups in front of more than 10,000 founders, investors, operators and tech leaders.

People Moves

Warburg Pincus appointed Philip Nolan as head of US wealth. The firm was founded in 1966 and manages more than $105bn in assets across investments in over 45 countries. Round Table Healthcare Partners appointed Ed Jones as operating partner; the Lake Forest, Illinois firm focuses exclusively on healthcare. Yukon Partners promoted Nathan Weekly to director; the Minneapolis-based junior capital provider backs middle-market, sponsor-led deals across the US and Canada. Periscope Equity promoted Eric Hinkle to partner; Hinkle joined the firm in 2017 as a vice president.

Disruption Matters Returns

PE International's Disruption Matters returned for a fifth season, with a six-part miniseries unpacking the playbook industry leaders are using to navigate the headwinds facing private markets exits.