Baronsmead Venture Trust and Baronsmead Second Venture Trust (the Baronsmead VCTs), managed by specialist alternative asset manager Gresham House, have raised a further GBP75 million. As with previous years, this 2022 tax year fundraise closed ahead of schedule and was oversubscribed beyond its initial GBP50 million target, reflecting strong investor

Inflexion Private Equity (Inflexion) has held the final close of Inflexion Buyout Fund VI at its hard cap figure of GBP2.5 billion.

Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York, has closed Behrman Capital Micross CF LP, a new single asset continuation fund of approximately USD500 million in connection with the sale of its portfolio company Micross Components (Micross or the Company), by Behrman Capital VI LP (Fund VI)

Hiro Capital, a specialist European VC focused on video games, metaverse technologies, creator platforms and gamified fitness, has launched Hiro Capital II, a EUR300 million (USD340 million) fund focused on backing the world’s emerging gaming and metaverse innovators. Hiro II will be announcing its first investments in April.  Hiro’s new

Tyr Capital, a digital asset focused investment manager, has launched a new fund, Tyr Capital Venture. Tyr Capital Venture SP is a discretionary hybrid venture capital fund offering investors exposure to long term returns across a portfolio of liquid tokens and illiquid digital assets (early-stage tokens and multi-stage venture capital

Mediobanca Private Banking has expanded its illiquid investments offering for Private Banking clients in Italy with the launch of the Mediobanca Venture Capital Fund, a sub-fund of Russell Investments Alternative Investment ICAV. It will invest in technology start-ups primarily based in the United States. This represents a further step on

Global real estate firm Hines is set to launch Hines European Value Fund 3 (HEVF 3), which is expected to be its largest closed-end fund to date in its growing flagship series of value-add funds in Europe. The fund is targeting equity commitments of approximately EUR1.5 billion. HEVF 3 intends

Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, has closed the Barings Real Estate European Value-Add Fund II (BREEVA II), its second pan-European value-add real estate fund, at its hard-cap of EUR850 million after receiving EUR1 billion of client demand, significantly surpassing the target of EUR750 million.

The Blackstone Private Credit fund (BCRED) has reported a net return of 12.4 per cent since launch and an 8.5 per cent distribution yield for 2021, according to a report by Barron’s Online. While the S&P 500 was down more than 5 per cent during the first month of 2022,