Toyota Invests in WiTricity, Gambling.com Goes for $2.5M on Sedo, eBay Buys FigCard to Roll Into PayPal, & More Boston-Area Deals News
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—TA Associates and Summit Partners, growth equity firms with offices in Boston and Silicon Valley, nabbed a controlling share of the Germany-based online gaming company Bigpoint, by investing $350 million in recapitalization financing. Previous Bigpoint shareholder Comcast Interactive Capital’s Peacock Equity Fund sold its holdings. —Watertown, MA-based WiTricity, a developer of a wireless charging system for electric cars and plug-in hybrids, inked a technology partnership with Toyota Motor Corporation. The deal also includes a Toyota investment in WiTricity, in the single digit millions of dollars, according to a Boston Globe report. —Waltham, MA-based marketing research software maker Invoke Solutions nabbed $3.8 million in equity-based funding from two investors, a SEC filing showed.
