Vesalius Biocapital, the specialist life sciences venture capital investor, has launched a new Portuguese investment vehicle, Vesalius Biocapital III Portugal, in collaboration with the Portuguese National Promotional Bank or Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (IFD), to invest in Portuguese life science companies. This unique investment vehicle is a joint effort between the

Milost Global has partnered with Monnaie Africa (Monnaie), a Mauritius based Investment holding firm, to launch Isilo Fund 1, a new and agnostic Private Equity Fund which will be focused on leveraged buyouts and restructuring of Microcap companies in Africa. By the end of this month, Milost and Monnaie will

BEX Capital, a secondary investor in private equity fund of funds, has held the final close of BEX Fund II, with total commitments of EUR120 million. The fund was heavily oversubscribed with fundraising completed in under nine months. At the time of its final close, the fund was already close

Longford Capital Management, LP, a leader in the commercial litigation finance industry, has held the final closing of Longford Capital Fund II,, a USD500 million fund focused on investments in commercial litigation finance, making it the largest private equity fund of its kind in North America. “Our focus is on

Montse Suarez and Anna Sweeting have launched Vaultier7 (V7), the UK’s first female-led specialist investment fund dedicated to partnering high growth category creators and disruptors in the converging sectors of Beauty & Personal Care, Health & Wellness and Lifestyle. V7 is backed by investors including the Puig family, owners of

Costanoa Ventures, a boutique venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise technology startups, has closed its third fund capped at USD175 million to sustain a focus on early stage company formation to Series A. This brings the total capital under management in excess of USD500 million and comes as the

AsusTek Computer, better known as ASUS, one of the world’s largest producers of desktops, laptops, mobile phones and consumer electronics, is partnering with Silicon Valley-based Fenox Venture Capital to launch a USUSD50 million venture fund. This partnership with Fenox Venture Capital will serve as a gateway for ASUS to access

Schroders has launched ts first UK-dedicated infrastructure debt fund, with a focus on UK pension funds and insurance companies. The Schroder UK Infrastructure Debt fund will target junior loans in the transport, energy, environmental, social infrastructure and telecoms sectors in the UK, focusing on higher yielding opportunities in the market.

Palatine Private Equity has held the Final Close of Palatine Private Equity Impact Investing Fund LP (Impact Fund) at its hard-cap of GBP100 million, exceeding its GBP75 million target. Evercore Private Funds Group acted as the exclusive global placement agent for the fundraise. The Impact Fund is the inaugural vehicle

Cove Hill Partners, a newly formed private equity firm, has closed on its first long-duration private equity fund with over USD1 billion of commitments from investors and founders. Cove Hill’s first fund significantly exceeded its target with the support of a highly-aligned investor base comprised of families, university endowments and