Lauxera Capital Partners, a newly created, international healthcare investment firm, announces that it has raised approximately EUR100 million for the first closing of Lauxera Growth I, its debut European HealthTech growth/buyout vehicle.  Despite Covid-19-related travel restrictions, the fund met this key fundraising milestone less than six months after launch. International

TCV has closed TCV XI, its largest fund to date at USD4 billion.  TCV turned 25 in 2020. Over our first quarter-century, the firm has invested more than USD14 billion, guided 65 companies through IPOs and executed 64 strategic sales.  “Over a quarter century, Netflix has gone from an outrageous

Gauge Capital (Gauge), a middle market private equity firm, has closed its third fund with an oversubscribed first and final close of USD800 million in commitments.  The Gauge Capital team is the largest investor in the fund and represents over 25 per cent of the committed capital. Ropes & Gray

Neuberger Berman has launched the NB Crossroads Private Markets Access Fund, a registered, continually offered closed-end fund that ‘further democratises the firm’s private equity offerings and increases access to these important portfolio solutions for individual investors’.  Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…  

Singapore-based Tower Capital Asia has held a first closing of its Southeast Asia-focused private equity fund, Tower Capital PE Fund , at approximately USD250 million.   The fund’s first-closing investors include a pre-eminent international institutional investor and highly respected single family offices from the Southeast Asian region. Danny Koh, Founder