Nonantum Capital Partners has closed its inaugural private equity fund at its hard cap of USD350 million in limited partner capital commitments, concluding a fundraising process that launched in January. Formed by a group of experienced private equity and management executives as a spin-out from Charlesbank Capital Partners, Nonantum focuses

MadDog Ventures has held the closing of its first venture capital fund, Mad Dog Venture Fund I with capital commitments of USD26.675 million, exceeding its target of USD25 million. MadDog Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in companies that develop and market cloud-based business applications that disrupt existing

Macfarlanes has advised venture capital investor Dawn Capital on the raising of its third fund, Dawn III, which after increasing its hard cap twice, attracted commitments of GBP165 million, making it one of the largest venture capital funds raised in Europe in the last couple of years.  The fund which

Unigestion has launched Unigestion Global Choice VII, a global small and mid-market investment programme, and a continuation of the ‘Unicapital Global’ and ‘Euro Choice’ series of funds. Unigestion Global Choice VII is seeking EUR300 million to build a portfolio of around 30 specialist buyout, growth capital and selectively special situations

Céréa Partenaire, an investment partner for agrobusiness companies, has held the first closing of Céréa Dette II with more than EUR300 million in commitments, after less than seven months of fundraising. The fund’s subscribers are all institutional investors including insurance companies, pension funds, funds of funds and banks. Unigrains, sponsor

Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) has launched PSL Ventures, a Seattle-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage technology companies. The USD80 million venture fund will invest in companies all over the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The fund also will participate in financings of spinouts from PSL’s affiliated

Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, Michigan’s venture capital fund-of-funds, has successfully attracted more than USD1.3 billion into the state’s startup ecosystem. Since Renaissance launched in 2008, it has invested in 30 venture capital funds around the United States, with the goal of attracting venture capital from those funds and their network

Eos Venture Partners (Eos), a specialist venture capital investor in insurance technology (InsurTech), is to raise a USD100 million debut fund, EVP I. The fund will be one of the first global, independent InsurTech investment funds targeting early and growth stage investments.   Eos was formed in 2016 and has