AmerisourceBergen, a healthcare solutions company, has launched AB Health Ventures, a dedicated corporate venture capital fund that will invest in and partner with emerging healthcare startup companies working to transform healthcare for people and animals globally. AB Health Ventures will build on AmerisourceBergen’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovation for its

Lead Edge Capital (LEC), a technology-focused growth stage investment fund, has closed Fund VI, which was oversubscribed, with over USD1.95 billion of commitments from Lead Edge’s network of over 500 limited partners and institutions. LEC will target making equity investments of between USD15 million and USD200 million per portfolio company

Global alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation (Ares), has launched the Ares Private Markets Fund, a new registered, continuously offered, non-traded, closed-end fund that intends to invest in an actively managed portfolio of private equity and other private assets principally through secondary market fund investments, and, to a lesser degree,

Global investment firm Carlyle has made the final close of its second Carlyle Credit Opportunities Fund (CCOF II) which raised USD4.6 billion, hitting its hard cap, exceeding its USD3.5 billion target, and attracting almost double the amount raised for its predecessor fund. Including available leverage, investable capital is approximately USD6

Ares Management Corporation (Ares), a global alternative investment manager, has launched the Ares Private Markets Fund (the Fund), a new registered, continuously offered, non-traded, closed-end fund that intends to invest in an actively managed portfolio of private equity and other private assets. It will principally invest through secondary market fund

British VC JamJar Investments has raised a fund of over GBP100 million from institutional investors, founders and via a crowdfund to expand their ability to back early-stage consumer brands across the UK and Europe. This includes a cornerstone commitment of GBP48 million from the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Capital Funds

Kempen European Private Equity Fund II, the private equity fund managed by Van Lanschot Kempen has closed with total committed capital of EUR245 million, the fund’s maximum target size. The Private Markets team at Van Lanschot Kempen manages assets based on three strategies and since its start in the summer

HEAL Partners, an Australia and Cayman based global growth and follow-on fund specialising in health, education and lifestyle (HEAL) sector investments, has signed a Strategic Relationship Agreement with affiliates of Elliott Investment Management (Elliott). HEAL will launch its USD350-500 million Fund II in H1 2022. As part of the Strategic

GI Partners, a private investment firm with a long history of investing in technology and science real estate, announced the has concluded the initial fundraising period for the firm’s newest vehicle, the GI Real Estate Essential Tech + Science Fund (GI Partners ETS Fund LP – the ETS Fund). The