Here is this week’s Deal Report for private equity and venture capital activity for US-based PE and VC firms and portfolio companies, brought to you by Scherzer International.

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Fundraising for PE & VC Funds

Counterpart Ventures
$132M
Third fund

Galaxy Ventures
$175M
Debut fund

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners
$3.2B
Eighth midmarket buyout fund

Sorenson Capital
$150M
Third VC fund

Private Equity Deals

Parthenon Capital
AArete
Undisclosed amount
Chicago, IL-based digital consultancy

Unity Partners
Amplēo
Undisclosed amount
Salt Lake City, UT-based fractional finance company

26North
AVI-SPL
Undisclosed amount
Tampa, FL-based provider of audio visual and communications systems

Sound Growth Partners
Bars
Undisclosed amount
Lakewood, CO-based provider of in-store ID check compliance services

Court Square Capital Partners
DCCM
Undisclosed amount
Houston, TX-based engineering firm focused on public infrastructure projects

TSG Consumer Partners
Dude Wipes
Undisclosed amount
Chicago, IL-based men’s personal hygiene brand 

Bregal Sagemount
Extra Duty Solutions
Undisclosed amount
Shelton, CT-based provider of off-duty program administration services and scheduling software to law enforcement and public safety agencies

Citation Capital
Gallo Mechanical
Undisclosed amount
New Orleans, LA-based mechanical contractor focused on large-scale HVAC and plumbing services

CenterGate Capital
Marena
Undisclosed amount
Lawrenceville, GA-based provider of compression garments and other clothing to medical facilities

STG
Movable Ink
Undisclosed amount
New York, NY-based personalized content platform

Serent Capital
PhotoDay
Undisclosed amount
Winter Park, FL-based provider of software for volume photographers

FTV Capital and Lightyear Capital
ProfitSolv
Undisclosed amount
Knoxville, TN-based provider of practice management software for professional services firms

ArcLight and DigitalBridge
Takanock

Undisclosed amount
Traverse City, MI-based provider of digital and power infrastructure solutions

Bow River Capital
Topia
Undisclosed amount
San Mateo, CA-based distributed workforce compliance company

Venture Capital Deals

A16z and Khosla Ventures
Abridge
$300M
Pittsburgh, PA-based medical AI scribe startup

Rethink Impact, L’attidude Ventures, GingerBread Capital, and DNX Ventures
AllSpice
$15M
San Francisco, CA-based collaboration platform for electronics teams

Town Hall Ventures and Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Arine
$30M
San Francisco, CA-based medication adherence startup

Granite Asia
Centific
$60M
Seattle, WA-based AI data foundry

USVP, Gradient, Madrona, Recall, Ascend, Essence, New Normal Fund, and Fika
Clarify
$15M
Seattle, WA-based autonomous CRM

Align Private Capital, IronGate Capital Advisors, Bravo Victor Venture Capital, KBW Ventures, and David Petraeus
Clearspeed
$60M
San Diego, CA-based provider of voice-based risk assessment

a16z
Cluely
$15M
Los Angeles, CA-based app that lets users cheat on things like tests and job interviews

Forgepoint Capital, S3 Ventures, and GTM Capital
DataBahn
$17M
Dallas, TX-based data pipeline platform

Felicis, M12 Ventures, Citi, and CRV
Eventual
$20M
San Francisco, CA-based AI data platform

Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Sequoia Capital, GV, DST Global, Conviction Capital, Elad Gil, Open AI Startup Fund, Elemental, SV Angel, and REV
Harvey
$300M
San Francisco, CA-based legal AI startup

Morgan Stanley’s 1GT
Insight M
$30M
Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of methane detection services for the oil and gas industry

The Stephens Group, Hummingbird Nomads, Duquesne, Brand Foundry, Floating Point, and American Family Ventures
Ledgebrook
$65M
Needham, MA-based insuretech focused on excess and surplus line

Greylock, SignalFire, SV Angel, and Maverick
Mandolin
$40M
Indianapolis, IN-based AI automation platform for specialty drug access

Marathon Management Partners, M13, Inspired Capital, and Newform Capital
Niural
$31M
Lewes, DE-based payroll and finance operations startup

Kleiner Perkins, NVentures, Saga Ventures, South Park Commons, and SV Angel
Profound
$20M
New York, NY-based answer engine optimization tool for brands

Playground Global, Cambium Capital, and Vsquared Ventures
Snowcap Compute
$23M
Palo Alto, CA-based developer of a superconducting compute platform

F-Prime Capital, QED Investors, Foundation Capital, and Fika Ventures
Spinwheel
$30M
Oakland, CA-based consumer debt management startup

America’s Frontier Fund, SBVA, Matter Venture Partners, B Capital, EDBI, Sojitz, CDIB -TEN Capital, Yazaki Innovations, B5 Capital, Tyche Partners, and Woven Capital
Tacta Systems
$64M
Palo Alto, CA-based developer of dextrous intelligence for robots

A16z and Conviction Partners
Thinking Machines Lab
$2B
San Francisco, CA-based startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati

Menlo Ventures, NEA, and 8VC
Wispr Flow
$30M
San Francisco, CA-based maker of a dictation app