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Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M
There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach to crack a system, and those who are using the same…
Kim Kardashian becomes a private equity dealmaker in collab with ex-Carlyle partner
America’s favorite reality star is leveling up her repertoire and levering up businesses. Kim Kardashian, who passed the “baby bar” exam in preparation to become a lawyer last year, just…
Shopware, an e-commerce platform that powers 100K brands, raises its first outside funding: $100M from PayPal and Carlyle
The e-commerce boom that started with the COVID-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware, which provides a set of open source tools to…
Some of the biggest names in private equity think this go-go market has another year or two (at least)
Earlier today, as part of a private event, this editor was afforded the opportunity to talk with some of the biggest names in the world of private equity, including Carlyle…
Carlyle confirms acquisition of live video streaming company LiveU; sources tell us for over $400M
Following our report yesterday of an impending sale of LiveU — one of the big developers of livestreaming hardware and software, used by some 3,000 major media organizations — today…
Want to crush competitors? Forget SoftBank, Blackstone suggests; it can write $500 million checks, too
Back in January, Blackstone — the investment firm whose assets under management surpassed a jaw-dropping half a trillion dollars earlier this year — quietly began piecing together a new, growth…
Digital Video Consolidation: Avail-TVN Picks Up $100M From Carlyle, Buys UK’s On Demand Group For $27M
A double-whammy in the digital video space today: Avail-TVN, a video services provider that works with companies like NBC, Univision, and brands like Mattel, has announced that it has picked…
