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Breakout Ventures closes USD112.5m Fund II

Breakout Ventures has closed of its oversubscribed second fund with USD112.5 million in commitments. Fund II received strong support from existing limited partners including Dolby Family Ventures, Thiel Foundation, GRIDS Capital, S Cubed Capital and deep tech investors Chris & Crystal Sacca, Tony Fadell, Zack Bogue and Matt Ocko. 

Ascend Partners closes USD570m inaugural fund at hard cap

Ascend Partners (Ascend), a healthcare focused private equity partnership, has closed its inaugural fund, Ascend Capital Partners Fund I (Ascend Fund I) with total committed capital of USD570 million.  The Fund was oversubscribed and hit its hard cap.  Ascend Fund I’s Limited Partners include public and private pension funds, foundations,

Caprock Logistics Ventures closes USD700m logistics venture

CapRock Partners (CapRock), an industrial investor, developer and asset manager in the Western US and Texas, has held the final closing of CapRock Logistics Venture at nearly USD700 million, significantly above its initial target of USD450 million.  The venture represents CapRock’s first development-focused vehicle, marking an expansion of its fund

Twelve Capital and Eos Venture Partners launch joint InsurTech focused growth fund

Eos Venture Partners (Eos), a InsurTech Venture Capital fund manager and Twelve Capital (Twelve), an investment manager specialising in the insurance industry, have joined forces to provide growth funding for successful InsurTech companies. With a specialised fund Twelve and Eos aim to accelerate the digital disruption of the insurance industry

Eir Ventures closes Life Science Venture Fund at EUR122m

Eir Ventures Partners AB, a Nordic Life Science Venture Capital manager, has held the final close of its fund Eir Ventures I AB of EUR122.3 million. Eir Ventures I AB is the firm’s first dedicated life sciences venture capital fund which was launched in 2020 with support from a strong

Lemniscap leads USD4.4m seed funding round in JellyFi

Crypto venture capital fund Lemniscap has led a USD4.4 million seed funding round in JellyFi, a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that will soon enable uncollateralised crypto loans. ParaFi Capital, Tioga Capital, White Star Capital, DeFiance Capital, True Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Genesis, Divergence Ventures, AngelDAO and several angel investors also

Circulate Capital holds second close for Climate Tech Fund

Circulate Capital, a Singapore-based investment management firm financing high-growth opportunities at the nexus of climate-tech and plastics, recycling and the circular economy, has held the second close of its climate tech fund, Circulate Capital Disrupt (CCD), bringing the strategy’s total AUM to USD25 million.  CCD is backed by international private

lool ventures holds first close of USD100m seed fund

lool ventures, an early stage investor backing mission-driven Israeli-founders, has held the first close at USD60 million of its third fund (lool III) which is targeting USD100 million, bringinf the firm’s total AUM to USD200 million.  Through lool III, the firm will look to invest in approximately 20 companies, in

PineBridge Investments closes inaugural fund to back first-time private equity managers

PineBridge Investments has held the final close of the PineBridge Preferred Participation Fund, with USD334.3 million in capital commitments.  The multi-manager private equity fund focuses exclusively on partnering with managers who are raising capital for their initial commingled institutional private equity funds.   Through the Preferred Participation strategy, PineBridge investors

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