Allianz X, the digital investment unit of the Allianz Group, has received additional investment from Allianz SE, increasing its fund size to EUR1 billion. The increase is the result of Allianz X’s investment track record, successful collaborations with growth companies as well as the contribution towards the Group’s overall digital

Future Ventures has launched an oversubscribed fund of USD200 million to invest in frontier technologies across diverse industries including machine intelligence, sustainable mobility, the future of food, computational biology, high-performance computing, aerospace, and more. Future Ventures is co-founded by Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko. Jurvetson is well-known as an early

Lone Star Funds has completed the final closing of Lone Star Fund XI, (LSF XI), the firm’s eleventh dedicated opportunity fund.  Capital available to LSF XI totals approximately USD8.2 billion, which includes third-party commitments and anticipated co-investments from associated entities.   Lone Star, a global private equity firm, invests on

Idinvest Partners, an investor in SMEs across Europe, has held the final closing of its second capital growth fund (Idinvest Growth Fund II) at EUR340 million, surpassing its initial target of EUR300 million. Idinvest Growth Fund II brings together a panel of renowned investors, of whom more than 75 per

Macfarlanes has advised LGPS Central Limited, one of the eight local Government pension scheme pools in England and Wales, on the launch of its inaugural pooled private equity vehicle. Macfarlanes assisted with both the structuring and the formation of the platform. The platform is predicting annual fund launches, the first

Sekhmet Ventures has launched a new venture capital fund focussed on beauty and wellness. The fund focuses primarily on companies with science-based products in the beauty and wellness markets. Sekhmet Ventures provides its portfolio companies with more than just capital. Sekhmet Ventures has assembled a team of experts who support its

BlueBay Asset Management’s (BlueBay) Private Debt Group has closed its Direct Lending Fund III and associated vehicles with investable capital in excess of EUR6 billion. BlueBay’s Private Debt platform has approximately EUR13 billion of AUM and has successfully completed more than 100 transactions across 11 geographies since inception in 2011.

Kuber Ventures, an alternative investment platform specialising in EIS and SEIS, has added three new funds available to individual investors and advisers building diversified tax efficient portfolios on behalf of their clients. The three new funds announced by Kuber are the Evergreen EIS Fund from EMV Capital (EMVC), Vala EIS

Monument Group has advised Altor on the raising of Altor Fund V, which closed at its hard cap of EUR2.5 billion of commitments after a brief fundraising period. The investor base for Fund V, which closed on 6 February 2019, is comprised of primarily existing investors with a select group