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Amazon buys Zoox. Lululemon purchases Mirror. Platinum backs L&R Distributors.

Palladium's Andrea McGuirt is among nine dealmakers named the 2020 Rising Stars of Private Equity. Coty buys stake in Kardashian's beauty business. Amazon buys self-driving startup Zoox. PE news from Carlyle and Kohlberg.

Bulking up in driverless technology represents an expansion of Amazon’s already sprawling interests in transportation and logistics.

Jeff Bezos, under pressure from employee and outside activists, last year unveiled a Climate Pledge committing his company to meet the goals of the landmark Paris climate agreement 10 years early.

Instacart raised $225 million in the funding round. It will use the infusion to support the surge of new customers, workers and partners and fuel behind-the-scenes work in advertising and business software it provides to grocery partners.

Rising Stars of Private Equity nominations due May 22. Arizent, parent company of Mergers & Acquisitions, conducts exclusive survey on how executives were dealing with the impacts of the coronavirus crisis. PE news from CD&R and TA.

The service, using Microsoft’s cloud software, will give big and small companies real-time data to determine ways to improve how they move goods.

The Competition and Markets Authority failed to properly consider other potential lifelines for Deliveroo when provisionally clearing Amazon’s investment in the food-delivery startup, Domino’s Pizza Group Plc said in a filing.

Rising Stars of Private Equity nominations due May 22. Quantum is reportedly raising a new fund to target distressed energy companies. PE News from GTCR and Thompson Street.

Amazon's Alexa Fund invests in voice technology startups. Google, Intel, Microsoft and Salesforce also use VC funds to compliment their M&A strategies. We check in with dealmakers from Alvarez & Marsal, Riverside, Merrill, M33 Growth and Paul Hastings about the potential impact of the coronavirus on the mid-market.