Weinberg Capital Partners (WCP) has held the final close of its WCP#3 buyout fund on 295 million euros only 10 months after going to market with an initial target of EUR250 million. WCP#3 has received the support of its existing investors and new investors to almost double the size of

Private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners (Insight) has held the close of its Fund X at USD6.3 billion, the firm’s largest to date. The oversubscribed fund will be used to further its leading growth equity technology investment engine. With the close of the new fund, Insight has

Venture capital firm Greycroft has closed Greycroft V, its core early stage fund at USD250 million in capital commitments. With the formation of Greycroft V, the firm now manages USD1.3 billion. In recent years Greycroft has been more aggressively investing in seed stage companies in addition to traditional Series A

Black Bay Energy Capital has held the final closing of its inaugural private equity fund, Black Bay Energy, with total commitments of USD224 million, exceeding its USD200 million target. Black Bay’s investors include endowments, foundations, private pensions, fund of funds and family offices. Black Bay invests in companies led by

Cathay Capital has held a first close for Cathay Midcap II at EUR600 million. The fund, which is targeting EUR1.2 billion is backed by Cathay’s historical cornerstone LPs, China Development Bank (CDB) and Bpifrance, and a mix of sovereign funds, institutional investors and family offices. Cathay Midcap II is also

Having announced a first closing at EUR100 million for its fintech Fund last year, BlackFin Capital Partners’ BlackFin Tech 1 has now reached EUR180 million in capital commitments at its final closing. The intitial target for the fund was EUR150 million.   Top-tier institutional investors have joined the existing pool.

Nexus Investments, a division of Harry Hyman’s Nexus Group, has launched its first EIS Scale-Up Fund which it believes to be the first of its kind since the June announcement of the UK Government’s GBP2.5 billion British Patient Capital programme.  The Fund aims to address a large gap in the

BlackRock’s European Private Debt team has successfully closed its EUR1.1 billion first-time European Middle Market Private Debt Fund alongside several separate accounts, bringing the total AIM of the strategy to EUR1.8 billion. The capital raise was a result of the team’s strong experience in middle market investing, their differentiated sourcing

Crosslink Capital has closed its eighth venture capital fund, Crosslink Ventures VIII. The new fund, which includes support from both new and existing investors, was over-subscribed, and closed with USD275 million of capital commitments. Over more than twenty five years, the Crosslink partners have backed hundreds of emerging growth companies,