Bessemer Venture Partners has closed $4.6 billion in new capital across two funds – $3.85 billion for its twelfth flagship fund, BVP XII, and $780 million for its inaugural BVP Forge fund. These two new funds allow the firm to back entrepreneurs and management teams across all stages of growth, regardless of maturity or structure.  Bessemer Venture Partners focuses on early- and growth-stage venture capital investments through its current $2.475 billion BVP XI fund, $825 million Century II growth fund, and $220 million early-stage focused India fund that were raised in 2021. With BVP Forge and its dedicated Forge fund,

BayPine has closed its inaugural private equity fund, BayPine Capital Partners Fund, at approximately $2.2 billion, exceeding its $2.0 billion target. Including the invested capital of co-investors participating directly and indirectly alongside the fund, the fund’s capital totals approximately $3.0 billion.  The fund’s investor base is comprised of leading global institutions, including public and private pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals. BayPine was formed in 2019 by Managing Partners David Roux, Co-Founder and former Co-CEO and Chairman of Silver Lake, and Anjan Mukherjee, former Senior Managing Director at Blackstone

Ardian has held the final closing of its latest Americas infrastructure fund – Ardian Americas Infrastructure Fund V (AAIF V) – with $2.1 bn in capital commitments.

Latana, an AI-powered brand tracking and consumer insights platform, has raised €36 million a Series B equity and debt financing round led by Oxx, a specialist growth-stage SaaS investor. Balderton Capital and Kreos also participated in the round with the funding set to be used to scale Latana’s SaaS offering, which provides companies with consumer data and key insights to help track brand and campaign performance. Latana also uses its technology to understand the underlying forces behind the opinions of people worldwide with special initiatives including the Democracy Perception Index, which is the largest annual study on the global perception

LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) has raised over $2.2 billion of equity for LaSalle Asia Opportunity VI (LAO VI), including sidecars and co-investment programmes, exceeding its initial target of $1.5 billion.  The committed capital has been secured from global institutional investors and will provide buying power for over US$7 billion worth of assets.   LAO VI is the sixth in LaSalle’s closed-ended, opportunistic fund series focusing on Asia Pacific. In keeping with its predecessor funds, LAO VI seeks to take advantage of mispriced assets with opportunities to add value through repositioning and redevelopment in Asia Pacific’s key markets including Australia, China,

Arcmont Asset Management (Arcmont), a European private debt asset management firm, has completed fundraising for its Capital Solutions Fund I and associated vehicles, attracting total strategy capital of approximately €800 million. The total raised for the first vintage of Arcmont’s Capital Solutions strategy exceeded the firm’s initial target and reflects the strong support received from both new and existing Arcmont investors globally, including private and public pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers and family offices.   To date, the fund is over 50% deployed and has already fully realised a number of investments, illustrating the strategy’s ability to originate, structure

Concentric, a London and Copenhagen based pan-European venture capital firm, has completed the initial close of its second fund – Concentric 02. With the new fund Concentric will continue to invest at Seed+ stage, with a focus on startups in financial services, logistics, real estate, industrial software, and mobility. The fund will take a hands-on ‘activist’ approach to working with portfolio companies. Concentric 02 starts with an underlying portfolio of seven investments. Concentric 02 will make initial investments of between €0.5m and €1.5m, investing primarily in European startups and founders, with a portion allocated to emerging market businesses, when the

Building Ventures, an early-stage venture firm investing in entrepreneurs creating a better built world, has closed its second fund, Fund II, with $95 million in capital commitments. The new capital will be used to invest in 18-20 seed to series A construction and real estate tech startups focused on improving every stage of the full building lifecycle. General Partners Jesse Devitte and Travis Connors co-founded Building Ventures in 2017. Both experienced investors with ties to the industry, Connors and Devitte noticed the need for innovation in built environment technology and the opportunity to partner with industry entrepreneurs.  Since inception, Building Ventures