PineBridge Investments has closed PineBridge Secondary Opportunity Partners (PSOP) having raised over USD880 million in five months. The fund will aim to provide investors with access to a global and diversified private equity secondary portfolio.  The fund primarily provides clients with exposure to US middle-market buyout strategies, with additional global

SP Capital Partners (SP Capital), a New York-based private equity seeding platform, has closed its latest USD200 million fund, which  manages both discretionary and managed separate accounts to invest in spin-out managers and provide flexible capital for seed, acceleration or expansion purposes. In addition to being a capital provider, SP

Seasoned private equity executives Jeremy Hand, Simon Hitchcock, Luke Kingston, Adam Lewis and Martin Squier have launched a new private equity firm, Horizon Capital a sector-focused investor, targeting Technology and Business Service deals.  The new firm will make equity investments of between GBP10 – GBP50 million in high growth businesses

Independent asset manager Dunas Capital has launched the Rainforest Dunas Iberia Fund I FCR, the first private equity fund of funds that will invest exclusively in Spanish and Portuguese GPs. The fund of funds manager will look for investment opportunities in buyout and growth capital funds but will also have

Cordillera Investment Partners has held the final closing of its second fund, Cordillera Investment Fund II, with total commitments of USD362 million, bringing the total AUM of the firm to USD648 million. The fund was oversubscribed and capitalised by endowments, foundations, family offices, and wealth advisors.   Cordillera specialises in

Corviglia Capital Fund, a global fintech growth equity investor, has launched with a target of raising USD500 million in capital commitments. The fund has been established in Luxembourg by two experienced entrepreneurs and executives – Petr Šmída and Cezary Smorszczewski – who each managed financial institutions valued at USD10 billion.

Quadrille Capital, an independent French private investment firm, based in Paris and San Francisco, has held a first closing above EUR200 million for its Technologies Fund IV, which is targeting EUR300 million. Consistent with Quadrille’s original and successful strategy, this new fund invests between EUR8 million to EUR12 million across

Piper Jaffray Companies has held the final close of Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking Fund II, a USD130 million growth equity fund. With the closing of Fund II, Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking manages USD275 million of committed and invested capital through Fund II and its two prior growth equity funds.