Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), a Chicago and Connecticut based private equity firm focused on high growth middle market companies in the marketing, information, and tech-enabled services sectors, has closed it debut fund GCP Fund I at USD130 million. GCP did not use a placement agent and secured commitments from a

NextStage AM, a specialist in growth equity in France, has held the first closing of its Relance-labelled NextStage Championnes III (Championnes III) fund, which will provide equity financing to innovative French SMEs established (particularly digital, environmental innovation, smart health).  At present, the fund’s programme already has an investment capacity of

CBPE Capital LLP (CBPE) has held the final close of its latest fund, CBPE Capital Fund X at its hard cap of GBP561 million, surpassing its target of GBP525 million. The Fund is the successor to CBPE Capital IX, which closed in August 2016 with capital commitments of GBP459 million, and

Pathway Capital Management has closed on a USD150 million custom secondaries fund for a US-based institutional investor. The fund will focus on making secondary investments in a wide variety of private equity strategies.   The fund represents a continuation of Pathway’s successful 29-year history of investing in the private markets, which

Searchlight Capital Partners has held the final close of Searchlight Capital III, with total committed capital of USD3.4 billion. This is the third private equity fund the firm has raised since it was founded in 2010.“We are truly grateful for the support of our investors,” the Founding Partners of Searchlight