Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health (Wavemaker 360), a venture fund focused on early-stage (primarily seed) healthcare disruptors and innovators, has closed its Fund II at $64 million, surpassing its first fund nearly four times over. Fund II’s Limited Partners (LPs) include hundreds of healthcare organisations and prominent healthcare executives across the United States, as well as some international investors.  The goal for Fund II is to invest into 40-50 early-stage companies (US and to a lesser extent international), with several investments already made into some of the most compelling healthcare start-ups in the areas of health-tech, digital health, medical device, telehealth, artificial

Juni has closed a $100 million Series B funding led by Mubadala Capital, whose global fintech footprint includes investments in SpotOn, Brex, C2FO, WeFox, Cardless, and others. All of Juni’s existing investors – EQT Ventures, Felix Capital, Cherry Ventures and Partners of DST Global – are also participating in the round.    Co-founded by CEO Samir El-Sabini and CTO Anders Orsedal in 2020, Juni is a financial management platform tailor-made for ecommerce that ties together physical and virtual cards, credit cards, accounting, analytics and digital advertising platforms, giving businesses a holistic view of their finances. In less than a year since its

Gluskin Sheff + Associates, the wealth management platform of Onex Corporation (Onex) has launched the Onex Partners Private Equity Solution 2022, a private equity strategy that seeks to generate compelling returns for Canadian high-net-worth investors, with an emphasis on capital preservation. For the first time, Canadian accredited investors can access Onex’ private equity platform through Gluskin Sheff to uncover an investment opportunity previously unavailable to the retail accredited investor market. The Fund’s structure represents a unique offering for eligible investors who seek to benefit from: The Fund aims to provide enduring capital appreciation primarily through targeting opportunities in four industry

Ledger and Cathay Innovation have launched a €100 million ($110m) early-stage venture fund dedicated to unlocking the opportunities of Web3 worldwide, covering  cryptocurrencies, decentralised finance (DeFI), blockchains, NFTs, DAOs and the tokenisation of everything.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) is planning to set a minimum investment quota for venture capital investment allocations by public and private pension plans, according to a report by Investment & Pensions Europe. The proposal would result in a total of €30 billion invested in VC funds as the government looks to boost the amount of capital available to start-ups.

INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund, a private equity investment fund located in the Baltic region, has implemented new internal ESG procedures, following a recognition by the Fund‘s management team of the need to refine the procedures already in place to facilitate the practical implementation of an ever-evolving and improving ESG approach over time. As part of this core initiative, several proprietary toolkits that cover both pre-investment assessment as well as post-investment monitoring stages have been developed. In addition, the Fund established the set-up of individual ESG key performance indicators (KPIs) as an essential part of value creation monitoring to all

Venture capital firm Santa Barbara Venture Partners (SBVP) has held the final close of its $11 million inaugural Fund I focused primarily on investing in tech and tech-enabled firms. SBVP offers a unique value-add – the firm and its 70-plus investor roster, made up largely of global marketing executives, helps its portfolio companies with customer acquisition and marketing.  To date, SBVP has made nine investments including Bark Technologies, Voltaiq, Specright, Classy, Nice Healthcare, Hydrosat, Jackpocket, Rad AI, and Curri.

Cresset Partners has closed its first industrial-focused fund, the Cresset Real Estate Logistics Fund I (Fund I). In just 12 months, investors committed more than $250 million to fund the development of nine state-of-the-art warehouse facilities. In addition, Cresset has announced the close of its second opportunity zone fund, the $655 million Cresset-Diversified Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund II, alongside the launch of its third fund in the qualified opportunity zone (QOZ) space, Cresset-Diversified Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund III.

JP Morgan Asset Management has held the final closing of its Lynstone Special Situations Fund II (Lynstone Fund II), with $2.4 billion in capital raised from a broad set of institutional investors comprised of pension funds, insurance companies, foundations endowments and wealth managers across the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia. Lynstone Fund II is investing in stressed, distressed, and event driven situations in European and North American private and public markets across the capital structure, where underlying assets are potentially discounted due to illiquidity or market disruption and where an event or catalyst has the strong potential to drive a

Paladin Capital Group, a cyber and advanced technology investor, has held the closing of its Cyber Fund II, a $372 million multi-stage fund that invests in cybersecurity startups bringing innovative technologies to market. The Fund surpassed its initial target of $250 million.   Cyber Fund II will look to deploy capital across a number of high-priority cybersecurity and online safety sectors, including innovative technologies that protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks and networks from ransomware. Paladin’s unique thesis-driven approach to investing and focus on dual-use technologies enabled the fund to attract a broad group of new and repeat limited partners across