IQ Capital, has held the first close of its GBP125 million third fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at GBP92 million. The fund will invest at Seed and Series A stages into UK deeptech companies with transformational deep-tech, AI or disruptive algorithms at their core and led by visionary founders.  

Highland Europe has closed its third fund in six years, raising EUR463 million to boost funding for globally ambitious European software and internet-enabled businesses. Significantly oversubscribed, the fund was raised in just 12 weeks and takes the firm’s assets under management to EUR1.1 billion.   There are now 29 active

Incubator and accelerator fund Emergence has successfully closed a third funding round of EUR320 million for its second European equities sub-fund, bringing the total amount of capital raised from 16 French institutional investors and invested in the three sub-funds to close to EUR800 million. “This fundraising is a real success: it

The Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) has raised GBP250 million (USD350 million) from a group of strategic investors committed to developing new medicines for dementia. The goal was met today with a new investment of USD60 million from US AARP, the global nonpartisan organisation dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older

ECM Equity Capital Management (ECM), a German private equity firm headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, has held the final closing of its new fund German Equity Partners V (GEP V) in June 2018 at its hard cap of EUR325 million in investor commitments – exceeding its original EUR300 million target.
 


Grey Rock Energy Partners (Grey Rock) has held its first and only close of Grey Rock Energy Fund III (Fund III) which was oversubscribed with USD232.5 million in capital commitments. The entirety of Fund III was raised through institutional investors; the majority are repeat investors who participated in prior Grey

Private equity veteran Thomas S Roberts, formerly Managing Partner at Summit Partners, has founded Equality Asset Management, a next-generation firm focused on making long-term investments in durable technology, healthcare, and tech-enabled growth companies.  Equality plans to implement an innovative fee structure that reflects the current return environment and more closely

Cressey & Company, a healthcare-focused private investment firm, has closed Cressey & Company Fund VI (Fund VI) at USD995 million and a related co-investment vehicle on USD105 million, bringing total new capital commitments to USD1.1 billion. The new funds will continue Cressey & Company’s focus on investing in and building

PPM America’s private equity arm, PPM America Capital Partners (PPM), has closed its seventh co-investment fund, PPM America Private Equity Fund VII, with a 159 per cent increase in size from its predecessor fund. The newly closed Fund is a part of PPM’s long-standing private equity program which primarily focuses