By Elliot Gulliver-Needham A private equity fund backed by Edmond de Rothschild and the government-owned British Patient Capital has raised €266m (£225m) to invest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies across Europe. The new fund Kennet VI, run by private equity house Kennet, has already begun to deploy capital, including in Screendragon in Ireland and the UK, which makes workflow management software, and Fluid Topics in France, an AI content delivery platform. Kennet VI’s capital was raised as part of a partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity, which began in 2017. Edmond de R…