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.


PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
Energy Spectrum Capital Dallas, TX $969M Eighth fund
NextGen Venture Partners Austin, TX $52M Second fund
Thayer Ventures San Francisco, CA $80M Third fund


Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
ClearLight Partners  ICS Undisclosed Endicott, NY-based provider of IT managed services
Francisco Partners Eventbrite $225M San Francisco-based self-service ticketing and experience technology platform
Hull Street Energy Gauley River Power Partners Undisclosed West Virginia-based operator of a hydroelectric-generating facility 
Thompson Street Capital Partners Pkware Undisclosed Milwaukee, WI-based provider of data security software
Clayton Dubilier & Rice Radio Systems Corp. Undisclosed Knoxville, TN-based maker of electric fences and other pet products
Parthenon Capital RxSense Undisclosed Cumming, GA-based provider of pharmacy benefit management solutions
Melody Investment Advisors Uniti Group Undisclosed Little Rock, AR-based wireless towers unit
Atlantic Street Capital Zips Car Wash Undisclosed Little Rock, AR-based car wash operator


Venture Capital Investors Company  Amount Description
DCVC Carbon Health $26M San Francisco-based mobile connected health care network
Spectrum Equity DispatchTrack $144M San Jose, CA-based provider of last-mile logistics solutions
CapitalG, Battery Ventures, Greycroft, Index Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Scale Venture Partners Expel $50M Herndon, VA-based managed security platform
Avon Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Flybridge, Accel, Fenbushi, Accomplic FalconX $17M San Mateo, CA-based crypto trading service
M12, Tiger Global, Boldstart Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners FortressIQ $30M San Francisco-based startup focused on imitation learning for process automation
QVT, Dexcel Pharma, Foresite Capital, Bluebird Ventures, Narya Capital, Amplo, Paul Manning, Asia Alpha Kriya Therapeutics $80.5M Palo Alto, CA-based gene therapy startup
Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, In-Q-Tel, XSeed Capital Lilt $25M San Francisco-based provider of enterprise translation software
Intel Capital, Cisco Investments, NetApp, SK hynix, Gaorong Capital, Glory Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners, LDV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Northern Light VC MemVerge $19M Milpitas, CA-based developer of memory machine software
Lupa Systems, Advance Venture Partners Morning Consult $31M New York-based data intelligence firm
Bpifrance, Cathay Innovation, MACSF, GV, F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads Owkin $25M New York-based collaboration platform for health care R&D
Brighton Park Capital Paradox $40M Scottsdale, AZ-based chatbot for HR and talent teams
ORI Healthcare Fund Pillar Biosciences $29.7M Natick, MA-based cancer diagnostics company
General Atlantic Quizlet $30M San Francisco-based provider online study tools
LS Polaris Innovation Fund, Droia Ventures, Mission BioCapital, INKEF Capital, the Dementia Discovery Fund QurAlis $42M Cambridge, MA-based developer of precision therapeutics for ALS and other neurologic diseases
Insight Partners Semperis $40M New York-based provider of enterprise “cyber resilience” solutions
Dell Technologies Capital, Amplify Partners, Wing VC, NanoDimension Capital SiMa $30M San Jose, CA-based machine learning startup focused on low-power computer vision processing
Andreessen Horowitz Sleeper $20M San Francisco-based social gaming platform for sports and e-sports
KKR, GGV Capital Slice $43M New York-based ordering and marketing tech platform for local pizzerias
Insight Partners, Emergence Capital, Battery Ventures, YC, Mucker Capital, and Fundersclub UpKeep $36M Los Angeles-based provider of enterprise maintenance management software
T. Rowe Price, Perry Creek Capital, Fidelity Waymo $750M Mountain View, CA-based self-driving car unit of Alphabet