Abrdn’s latest venture capital fund of funds has attracted USD90.7 million to date in capital commitments according to a report by CityWire. A regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that the fund is targeting USD250 million in total, while a Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF) board meeting

Northlight Capital Partners, a leading middle-market real estate credit fund manager, has announced the second closing of its third institutional fund, Northlight Real Estate Opportunity Fund III (NREOFIII). Together with Northlight’s co-investment separately managed accounts, total capital commitments now exceed USD125 million. NREOFIII has already closed on 14 transactions, totalling

Principal Real Estate, the real estate investment team for Principal Global Investors, has completed the first close of its closed-end fund dedicated to acquiring data centre assets in Europe. The initial capital raise for the Principal European Data Centre Fund (the Fund) beat its target, reaching EUR155 million. Subscriptions were

Pioneer Point Partners (Pioneer), a specialist sustainable infrastructure investment firm, has reached a Final Close of EUR575 million on its maiden institutional fund, Pioneer Infrastructure Partners SCSp. The Final Close exceeded the EUR500 million target that Pioneer initially set. The Fund generated significant interest, with commitments from 15 highly reputable

Fiera Real Estate UK (FRE UK) has held the final close of  Fiera Real Estate Opportunity Fund V (FREOF V) at GBP180 million. FREOF V is the fifth and largest Fund in the Firm’s value add series which has raised over GBP780 million to date. The firm launched FREOF V

The Solas Sustainable Energy Fund ICAV, a new EU-focused fund targeting energy efficiency investments, has reached its first close at EUR140 million. Strategic Investments European Fund for The European Investment Bank (EIB) committed a EUR30 million cornerstone investment to SSEF, backed by the (EFSI), the main pillar of the Investment

BACKED is to launch two new EUR75 million funds to invest in Europe’s boldest entrepreneurs. ‘BACKED Core 2’ continues to invest in seed-stage startups and ‘BACKED Encore 1’ is dedicated to follow-on investments in later-stage rounds of existing portfolio companies. Co-founded and launched in 2016 by Partners Andre de Haes

Amati’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) VCT has sold out within five days of launching its offer, raising GBP25 million from private investors, GBP13 million of which was in the first 90 minutes and GBP21 million was raised on the first day. This beats its previous record of raising more than

Foreunner Ventures, a consumer-focused early-stage investment firm has raised USD1bn in capital commitments for its sixth fund, according to a report by AltAsstes. The total is double the USD5000 billion collected by the predecessor fund, which closed in 2020. The new Fund VI will continue Forerunner’s strategy of making early-stage