Playfair Capital and Global Ventures have launched ‘Female Founder Office Hours’ across MENA – with 150 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including: Atomico, Balderton, Creandum, EQT Ventures, Firstminute, Localglobe, Northzone, Notion and Seedcamp – hosting virtual mentoring sessions for over 400 women founders from across MENA, the UK

Mega-buyout deals are becoming increasing difficult to execute due to problems in “getting the equity”, according to Orlando Bravo, the billionaire co-founder of software and tech-focused private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo. A report by BNN Bloomberg cites an interview with Bravo on the sidelines of this week’s IPEM private

ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has had a strong 12 months, completing 10 exits and generating an average gross return of 4.2x over the last year. Together, these exits delivered £1.3 billion of proceeds, and include the recent sale of MiQ, one of the largest global programmatic

C Capital is planning to raise $500 million for investments in  blockchain assets as well as the credit and private equity spaces on the assumption that the prices of both digital assets and private companies are bottoming out, according to a report by Bloomberg.

HarbourVest Partners has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia in response to increased demand in the region from institutional and private wealth clients in Australia and New Zealand for the firm’s investment solutions. The office, which represents the global private markets investment firm’s first location in Australia and sixth

KKR is providing individual investors with tokenised access to a portion of one of its private equity funds through a tie-up with digital assets specialist Securitise, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The offering, for the second vintage of KKR’s HealthCare Strategic Growth Fund, is available to

26North Partners – an alternative asset manager that invests across asset classes – has been launched by Josh Harris, co-founder of private equity giant Apollo. With an initial $5 billion to invest, 26North Partners will focus on private equity, credit and insurance solutions.

Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a global venture capital firm, has launched its European Fund which has €390 million to deploy in European investments to accelerate the growth of innovative technologies which have the potential to drive the transition towards net zero. The fund will seek growth and venture investments across

Mirova, a subsidiary of Natixis Investment Managers specialising in sustainable investment, is to expand access for retail investors to its impact private equity fund. Launched in 2021, the Mirova Environment Acceleration Capital fund qualifies as an ELTIF (European Long-Term Investment Fund) which means it is accessible to a larger number