Transactions - Tech, software & digital

Vivino, the world’s largest mobile wine app, closed a $155m Series D funding round.

Codecool, one of the top programming schools in the CEE region, received investment capital of over EUR 7 million from Integral Venture Partners.

CloudAlly, a cloud‐based backup service provider, was sold to Zix Corporation, a leading provider of cloud email security and compliance solutions.

Asolvi, Europe’s leading provider of field service and contract management software, agreed to acquire TIVAPP, the leading German field service solution for the fire protection and security sector.

Diapason (formerly MCC Soft), a French treasury management software company, was bought by Apax Partners Development through an LBO transaction.

Geomatikk is a tech-enabled services champion, managing critical “checkbefore-you-dig” safety assessments to network owners, contractors and consulting engineers in Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

Medios Cattri acquired a majority stake in Lightbox, a leading digital out‐of‐home advertising company in the United States.

Bitpro AS acquired KeyNet, a provider of complete data communication solutions for large and medium sized companies.

Booming, a Dutch digital marketing agency, was sold to Belgium based Intracto Group, backed by PE firm Waterland.

Profihost AG, a German player in the managed hosting sector, was acquired by dogado GmbH, one of the country’s leading cloud service providers.

Confirma Software, founded by Abry Partners, a US‐based private equity with deep sector knowledge in business and information services, acquired SKJ Systems, a Finnish provider of Point‐of‐Sales (POS) systems under the Jeemly and Flowvy brands.

Ielo Group, a French independent fiber-optic operator, raised funds from DIF Capital Partners, a leading global independent infrastructure fund manager with EUR 7.6 billion of assets.

SAAB divested the Dutch‐based company QPS (Quality Positioning Services), a provider of hydrographic software solutions for the global maritime industry.

Pagantis, a fintech group based in Spain, sold QueBueno, its business line of online consumer microcredits, to an individual shareholder of the group.

Metaphor IT merged with DoubleEdge Professional Services and Foehn to form Kerv, a transaction backed by LDC with a combined value of GBP 30 million.

QWIC, an innovative Dutch e-bike brand, has received EUR 10 million in growth capital from De Hoge Dennen Capital, the investment office of the De Rijcke family.

Clairfield assisted the minority shareholders of 2C Solution, controlled by Namirial, in the sale of their shares to the parent company, which was
simultaneously acquired by the PE fund Ambienta. The minority shareholders reinvested together with the founders of Namirial in the new company controlled by Ambienta.

SoLocal Group, a Euronext-listed digital marketing company, sold its Spanish subsidiary QDQ Media to AS Equity Partners.

Nets Group acquired PeP, a leading merchant acquirer in Poland with an installed base of more than 125,000 point-of-sales terminals, offering a broad set of payment solutions focused on the attractive SME segment. The transaction values PeP’s enterprise value at EUR 405 million.

Point Group Oy, a digital service provider for the built environment in Finland, was sold to the French Arkance, a subsidiary of Groupe Monnoyeur.