Mindbody, a provider of online business management software to the beauty, health and wellness industry, has completed a $35 million investment round led by Institutional Venture Partners. The company’s existing investors Catalyst Investors and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the latest investment. PRESS RELEASEGlobal Software Provider MINDBODY Raises $35 Million Institutional Venture Partners joins [...]

WeddingWire finds an investor in Spectrum Equity, which injected $25 million for a minority stake.

F+W Media has acquired Aspire Media, parent company of Interweave, from private equity firms Frontenac Company and Catalyst Investors, and several members of the Interweave management team. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. PRESS RELEASE F+W Media, Inc. Chairman & CEO David Nussbaum announced today the acquisition of Aspire Media LLC, parent company of [...]

Insite Wireless Group, the Virginia-based wireless infrastructure facility developer, took on a follow-on investment from Catalyst Investors, the New York-based private equity firm. The deal represents the latest in a series of investments from the PE shop—Catalyst’s third; it is separate from and follows an investment from Cox Enterprises. Specifics of the transaction were not [...]

Growth private equity is a hot topic in alternative asset management these days but even with all of the attention, growth equity remains ill-defined. Often times, growth equity is defined by what it is NOT: venture capital or buyout. A simple way to explain growth equity is to revisit the classic S-curve of industry evolution. [...]

Eric Steele has joined Catalyst Investors as a senior analyst. He was formerly an investment banking senior analyst in the communications and media group of Stifel Nicolaus Weisel. Catalyst Investors is a growth private equity firm based in New York.

Wireless technology company Interop Technologies has added Fred Tannenbaum and Brian Rich to its board. Tannenbaum is a managing partner of the Chicago law firm Gould & Ratner LLP. Rich is a managing partner of New York-based firm Catalyst Investors LLC. Interop Technologies is based in Fort Myers, Fla.

Catalyst Investors said Tuesday that it has invested $10 million in Barrett Xplore, which provides 4G wireless and satellite broadband services to rural Canada. Catalyst, of New York, is a PE firm.

InSite Wireless Group, an owner and operator of wireless communication tower site facilities and distributed antenna systems , has raised an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from Catalyst Investors.

Susan Bihler has joined growth equity firm Catalyst Investors as an analyst. She previously was an analyst in CIT Group’s communications, media and entertainment group.