LGT Capital Partners has held the final close of Crown Impact, its first impact-focused private equity investment fund, at USD550 million, significantly above its initial target size of USD 350 million due to strong investor demand and a growing investment opportunity set. Crown Impact invests in highly impactful companies across

True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV4 Plus) Fund has held the first close of its new $146m Follow on Fund. The TGV4 Plus Follow on Fund has a group of 15 General Partners (GP), who lead the fund and its Investment Committee, having put more than $62 million of their

BlackRock is to establish a perpetual infrastructure strategy that will seek to partner with infrastructure businesses over the long term to help drive the global energy transition. Building on the broad capabilities of BlackRock’s longstanding infrastructure platform, the new strategy will pursue investments in the megatrends of energy transition and

Third Rock Ventures has held the closing of Third Rock Ventures Fund VI, with $1.1 billion in capital commitments. Fund VI will continue Third Rock’s core strategy to discover, launch and build new groundbreaking companies focused on improving the lives of patients.  Third Rock employs a hands-on approach to partnering

Inovia Capital has raised $325 million for its fifth early-stage fund. The fund, which saw strong support from existing and new investors, will back tech-focused companies in their aspiration to become category leaders.  The closing brings Inovia’s total capital under management to $2.2 billion.

Project A Ventures, one of the leading early-stage tech investors in Europe, has closed its fourth fund with $375 million in capital commitments. The new fund, Project A’s largest top date, which will invest from pre-seed to Series A in the most promising founders across the continent, brings the company’s

Good Growth Capital, a majority women- and minority-managed venture capital firm, has closed its oversubscribed third fund, Good Growth Capital General Fund II (General Fund II”, with more than $100 million, which will be deployed in Seed through Series B investments. Triago acted as exclusive global placement agent for the

Sequoia Capital, a venture capital and growth investment firm, has launched its first dedicated Southeast Asia fund – Sequoia SEA Fund I, according to a report by VCCircle. The $850 million vehicle will finance entrepreneurs across the Southeast Asia region including India. Sequoia has invested in over 400 startups across

Glade Brook Capital Partners (Glade Brook), a global growth equity investment firm, has held the final closing of Glade Brook Strategic Growth III (SG III), an oversubscribed $430 million fund focused on growth equity investments at the Series B and C stages.

Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has launched a new prospectus for the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund (FWT EIS Fund), which is now open for investment again. The Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund is a collaboration between Foresight Group, the £8.7 billion specialist asset