After the success of its Smart City I Venture fund, Eurazeo has announced the initial closing of its Smart City II Venture fund at EUR80 million to invest in the most promising energy, mobility proptech and logistics start-ups worldwide. This first round of fundraising has brought together top-tier investors including
OpenOcean, an pioneering investor in data solutions and software, has announced a EUR92 million raise for its third main venture fund.
Panoramic Ventures has launched following a partnership between entrepreneur and investor Paul Judge and venture capital firm BIP Capital, which has more than USD550 million in assets under management. Judge and BIP Capital Co-founder Mark Buffington are managing partners of Panoramic Ventures, which has also launched a new fund with
Finch Capital has held the first close of its EUR150 million fund, Europe III, which will invest in European technology companies that shape the future of finance by using technology such as artificial intelligence. Europe III saw a near 90 per cent follow on investment from previous funds. Since its
Kingswood Capital Management (Kingswood), an operationally-focused lower-middle market private equity firm, has closed the Kingswood Capital Opportunities Fund I. The Fund was oversubscribed and closed at the hard cap with total commitments of USD230 million. The Fund received commitments from a balanced group of high-quality limited partners, including public pension
Claret Capital Partners Limited (Claret) (formerly Harbert European Growth Capital), has held the first closing of its third fund, which will continue to invest in innovative growth stage tech and life science businesses throughout Europe primarily to support organic growth and M&A.
Astia has launched a USD100m early-stage venture fund aimed at addressing the disparity in funding for companies that include women in founding or executive roles. Led by an investment from Mastercard, the Astia Fund will invest globally in high-growth companies that have at least one woman in an executive,
A group of leading development finance institutions (DFIs) and impact investors – CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO – have made an USD82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 (PFF 2 or the Fund), managed by Phatisa. PFF 2 will invest across the African food value
Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Guernsey, together with the Guernsey funds team of global investor services group IQ-EQ, have advised Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) on the successful launch of its debut fund Queen’s Park Equity Partners I, which closed at its hard cap of GBP185 million and was raised
Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg), a private equity firm specialising in middle market investing, has held the final closing of its ninth private equity fund, Kohlberg Investors IX (Fund IX) with USD3.4 billion in total commitments.
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