Sales-tax services provider Avalara said this week it has raised $100 million in financing from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus. The Bainbridge, Island.-Wash.-based software company says its plans include international expansion and strategic acquisitions. "This investment by Warburg Pincus will allow us to put more dollars to work in our growth initiatives," said Avalara founder and CEO Scott McFarlane. Avalara said the new round brings the total it has raised to more than $200 million since 2004.

Minneapolis, Minn.-based Interdyn BMI has acquired another member of the Interdyn consortium. BMI has purchased Chicago, Ill.-based Interdyn Lanac Technology. A reseller of Dynamics GP and CRM, Lanac was owned by Dale May and was founded in 1985. The last count I had for Lanac was $5.6 million in revenue for 2010, submitted in 2012. May has declined to submit information for the Top 100 and VAR Stars selection for the last two years. In the 2012 submission, Lanac reported it had 23 employees.

Kent Hollrah, a veteran of the nonprofit software market, has joined cloud vendor Intacct to lead its NFP program. Hollrah had been president of Orange Leap, which makes software to manage donor and constituent relationships with nonprofits. "This is the fastest-growing part of Intacct's business," he said during this week's Intacct Advantage conference in Orlando, Fla. Hollrah was CEO with the former Micro Information Products, which marketed the MIP line now owned by Abila.

Consulting and reselling firm Columbus says it is "executing a recovery plan" for its operations in the United States. That follows a 21.3-percent decline of sales here, reported in the company's financial results for the third quarter ended September 30. Columbus, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, described the efforts in this country as involving a "reorganization of their senior management structure, and a strengthening of the sales management and the sales team.