Allocations
Quant trading specialist DE Shaw & Co has closed its first dedicated private equity fund with more than $450 million in capital commitments, falling just sort of the fund’s $500 million target, which was set a year ago, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Summit Partners has held the first and final closing of its newest Europe growth equity fund, Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity Fund IV, at its hard cap with €1.4 billion in total capital commitments. Launched in October 2022, the fund was oversubscribed.
eWTP Arabia Capital, a venture capital fund backed by China’s Alibaba Group and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, is aiming to raise $1 billion to invest in tech startups in China, India, Southeast Asia, and MENA, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Nuveen, the $1.1 trillion investment manager of TIAA, and Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen, have launched the Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund, which will offer individual investors access to private capital investments across the US middle market, typically only available only to institutional investors.
Kainos Capital, a private equity firm focused on the food and consumer products and services sectors, has closed Kainos Capital Partners III LP with over $1 billion in capital commitments, making it the largest investment vehicle in Kainos’ history.Â
PMT and PME, pension schemes for workers in the Dutch metals industry, have each made an additional commitment of €75 million to tech-focussed Dutch venture capital investor Innovation Industries’ third fund, according to a report by Imvestments & Pensions Europe.
The pension funds are the largest investors so far in Innovation Industries III, which has raised €200 million in Toal to date and is reportedly targeting another €100-200 million.
Innovation Industries says its new fund will look to invest in around 15 technology start-ups and scale-ups with a focus on firms that are trying to commercialise innovations incubated at universities.
EQT, a private investment firm focussed on energy, environmental, transportation and telecommunications investments, has set the hard cap for investor commitments to its latest global infrastructure fund at €21 billion.
New private equity investment firm Bluestone Equity Partners has closed its inaugural fund, Bluestone Capital I, a $300 million growth equity investment vehicle focussed on the global sports, media & entertainment industry.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has held the final close of West Street Global Growth Partners, a new fund which will invest in early-stage companies that are typically small in size, at $5.2 billion, making it one of the largest ever first-time growth equity funds.
Greenbriar Equity Group has held the final closing of Greenbriar Equity Fund VI (Fund VI) with total capital commitments of $3.475 billion, including $225 million in commitments from the general partners and the firm’s network of operating executives.
Fund VI, the firm’s largest investment vehicle to date, received strong support from both existing investors as well as an expanded base of new investors globally, and significantly exceeded its $2.75 billion target.
Fund VI will continue Greenbriar’s same 20-plus year strategy of investing in supply chain, business services and advanced manufacturing companies.
Evercore acted as Greenbriar’s exclusive global placement agent and
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