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Sep 18, 2026
Hamilton Lane has hired UBS Unified Global Alternatives co-head of private equity Diana Celotto as managing director to lead its primary GP relationships across Europe, adding a senior fund selector to a platform which allocated $23.6bn to private markets funds last year.
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Sep 18, 2026
Fintech specialist Portage has closed its fourth flagship venture fund on about $600m, slightly below the $655m raised by its predecessor four years ago despite growing its wider investment platform to $7bn.
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Sep 18, 2026
Siguler Guff has raised more than $3bn for its US small-buyout strategy, marking the largest fundraising in the strategy's history as the private markets manager pulls in almost $700m through separately managed accounts alongside its latest commingled vehicles.
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Sep 17, 2026
Bain Capital Ventures has raised $1.6bn for its eleventh core venture fund, as the investor concentrates its strategy around early-stage companies building AI infrastructure, applications and services.
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Sep 17, 2026
Industrial technology-focused private equity firm Artemis Capital Partners has closed its fourth fund on $254m as the Boston-based manager targets businesses exposed to growing aerospace, defence, life sciences and semiconductor demand.
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Sep 17, 2026
European venture investor Brighteye Ventures has reached a $72m first close for its third fund as the former edtech specialist broadens its investment remit into AI, productivity and labour technology.
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Sep 17, 2026
Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to acquire 100% of ASX-listed plumbing and heating products manufacturer Reliance Worldwide Corporation through its flagship private equity strategy, in an all-cash transaction carrying an enterprise value of about $2.8bn. Brookfield will pay $3.38 per share, with Reliance's board unanimously recommending the offer to shareholders. The company operates across the […]
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Sep 17, 2026
CPP Investments and Brookfield Asset Management have created a framework capable of deploying up to C$50bn of equity into large Canadian infrastructure and strategic-industry projects over five years, in one of the biggest domestic investment initiatives yet undertaken by a Canadian pension investor.
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Sep 17, 2026
Strategic Value Partners has hired Goldman Sachs Asset Management's global client business head Matt Gibson as president, handing the 25-year Goldman veteran responsibility for client relations, infrastructure and strategic development across its $22bn alternatives platform.
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Sep 17, 2026
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has closed its inaugural dedicated growth equity fund on an oversubscribed $1.3bn.
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Sep 16, 2026
Portobello Capital has closed its fifth flagship buyout fund on €710m, beating its €600m target after less than 18 months of fundraising. The Madrid-based manager said Portobello Capital Fund V was its largest fund to date and the largest active private equity fund in Spain, coming in 18% larger than its previous vintage. Never miss […]
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Sep 16, 2026
Goldman Sachs Alternatives has closed its ninth flagship buyout fund on $9.6bn, almost matching its $9.7bn predecessor despite the prolonged slowdown in global private capital fundraising.
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Sep 16, 2026
Apollo has completed a €3bn investment in Bayer's long-acting reversible contraceptives business, with KKR joining the transaction as a significant minority participant. Apollo-managed funds and KKR have invested equity into a newly created entity holding the business, while Bayer retains a majority stake and full operational control. The deal, originally announced in July, was originated […]
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Sep 16, 2026
Global private capital fundraising is heading for a fifth consecutive annual decline, with almost four-fifths of capital now flowing into funds of at least $1bn as liquidity-starved LPs concentrate commitments with larger managers, according to new PitchBook data.
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Sep 16, 2026
Golub Capital has hired former Northleaf Capital Partners executive Matt Shafer to lead its GP-led private equity secondaries strategy, less than a year after committing more than $1bn to build the business.
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Sep 16, 2026
Carlyle has raised about $2.3bn for its second infrastructure credit fund, taking in more than three-and-a-half times the capital secured for its predecessor as the investment giant scales its private infrastructure lending business.
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Sep 16, 2026
Crane Venture Partners has raised $484m across four investment vehicles as the London-founded venture investor expands from its European roots into a globally connected early-stage investment platform spanning Europe, North America, India and Asia-Pacific.
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Sep 16, 2026
Radical Ventures has secured more than $1bn at the first close of a new multi-billion-dollar late-stage AI fund, attracting commitments from some of Canada's largest pension investors as it looks to address a shortage of domestic growth capital for the country's technology businesses.
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Sep 16, 2026
PSG Equity has closed its third European growth fund at more than €4.4bn, hitting its hard cap less than three years after collecting €2.6bn for its predecessor.
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Sep 15, 2026
Frazier Life Sciences has raised more than $1.1bn from new and existing investors for its public biotechnology strategy, taking total commitments to the vehicle to approximately $2.8bn since its launch in 2021.
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Sep 14, 2026
Intrepid Growth Partners has closed its inaugural fund at $525m, establishing a specialist growth investor focused on AI companies with the ambition to reshape established industries.
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Sep 14, 2026
Volition Capital has closed its sixth growth equity fund at a $950m hard cap, increasing the size of its flagship pool by about 41% from the $675m raised for Fund V.
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Sep 14, 2026
CVC has set an initial €26bn target for its tenth Europe/Americas flagship fund, putting it on course for another of the world's largest private equity raises when formal fundraising begins in January.
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Sep 11, 2026
Mubadala has agreed a significant minority investment in Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee alongside existing controlling shareholder Centurium Capital in a transaction with an aggregate value of approximately $1bn.
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Sep 11, 2026
Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds has approved $750m of new private-market commitments, splitting the capital between Fortress Investment Group's latest lending strategy and an IFM infrastructure vehicle.
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Sep 11, 2026
Apogem Capital has reached the hard cap for its eleventh lower-middle-market private equity vehicle, collecting $597m including commitments from the manager's own employees.
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Sep 11, 2026
Pinegrove Venture Partners has closed its 12th Strategic Investors Fund on $1.5bn, securing an oversubscribed raise for its venture fund-of-funds and co-investment strategy despite a difficult environment for VC fundraising.
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Sep 10, 2026
Healthcare specialist ARCHIMED has more than doubled the size of its small-cap flagship strategy after closing MED IV at its €1.5bn hard cap, following demand for roughly three times the available capacity.
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Sep 10, 2026
EIG has nearly doubled the size of its senior infrastructure debt fund series with a $1.9bn final close for its sixth vehicle, taking total capital raised across the strategy's latest fundraising to $4bn.
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Sep 10, 2026
CEECAT Capital has reached a €135m first close for its third Emerging Europe-focused private equity fund after securing €80m of combined commitments from the European Investment Fund and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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Sep 10, 2026
Silver Lake is combining French software holdings Cegid and Silae to create a European business-management software group valued at more than €10bn, according to the Financial Times and Reuters.
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Sep 10, 2026
New York investment firm Luma Group has closed its debut life-sciences venture fund on $410m, in the wake of securing its first portfolio-company exit through Eli Lilly's acquisition of Vaccine Company.
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Sep 10, 2026
Stablecoin major Tether and private-credit manager Fasanara Capital have committed $400m to launch an evergreen lending fund that aims to attract as much as $3bn from third-party institutional investors.
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Sep 10, 2026
Hercules Capital's investment-management arm has surpassed $2.3bn of investable capital after securing commitments for two institutional private-credit vehicles and completing a rated securitisation.
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Sep 10, 2026
Jefferies Credit Partners has built almost $4bn of lending capacity for its European direct-lending strategy after holding the first close of its inaugural European Direct Lending Fund, anchored by Allianz Global Investors.
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Sep 09, 2026
GE Aerospace has agreed to acquire Consolidated Precision Products from Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners for $11.75bn, handing the sponsors an exit from the aerospace castings specialist.
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Sep 09, 2026
ICG has hit the €12bn hard cap for its ninth flagship European Corporate fund after attracting about 90 new LPs, creating what the $126bn alternatives major says is the world's largest dedicated structured capital fund.
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Sep 09, 2026
Clean Growth Fund has reached an £81.5m second close for its second climate technology fund, including a sizeable commitment from the £120bn UK local government pension pool Border to Coast.
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Sep 09, 2026
Bridgepoint Credit has transferred about €1.2bn of commitments from its 2017-vintage Direct Lending II fund into a Pantheon-led continuation vehicle.
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Sep 09, 2026
Gainline Capital Partners has moved six-year portfolio company Core Health & Fitness into a single-asset continuation fund led by StepStone Group, giving existing LPs a liquidity option while raising fresh capital to support the commercial fitness equipment maker's expansion.
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Sep 09, 2026
The British Business Bank has launched a £210m investment fund targeting SMEs across South East England, with Maven Capital Partners taking responsibility for its equity strategy and FSE Group managing the debt allocation.
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Sep 09, 2026
CVC Capital Partners has hired TPG president Todd Sisitsky to become co-chief executive alongside current CVC president Peter Rutland, in a major leadership transition at the €212bn private markets manager.
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Sep 09, 2026
TrueBridge Capital Partners has more than doubled the size of its dedicated venture secondaries strategy after closing its second fund on $508m, two years after raising $230m for its predecessor.
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Sep 09, 2026
Cinven has closed its second Strategic Fund on about €2.3bn, beating its target by roughly 50% after expanding the European mid-market strategy beyond the financial services focus of its predecessor.
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Sep 08, 2026
Mistral has raised €3bn in a Series D round valuing the French AI company at more than €21bn, in what it says is the largest-ever equity fundraising by a European technology company.
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Sep 08, 2026
Tasman Capital Partners expects its fourth private equity fund to be substantially deployed by the time it reaches a planned final close in March next year, having already put its first two platform investments in place after securing about 60% of its A$200m target.
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Sep 07, 2026
Private equity firm Astorg says software businesses in its portfolio are already seeing teams operate at roughly three times their previous productivity - with improvements of up to 10x in specific development cycle times - but argues the bigger opportunity from AI will require companies to redesign how they operate.
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Sep 07, 2026
The public-market software repricing has begun feeding visibly into private equity valuations, helping push global buyout returns negative in the first quarter despite most other sectors suffering only modest declines, new HarbourVest data shows.
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Sep 07, 2026
Advent Life Sciences has hired former Colony Capital executive Gail Jermyn as investor relations partner, bringing in a fundraising veteran with more than two decades of experience as the firm looks to mobilise more overseas capital.
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Sep 07, 2026
Molten Ventures has reached a £175m first close for its new Growth Fund after securing a £75m cornerstone commitment from the British Business Bank, as the listed VC firm looks to scale the amount of third-party institutional capital it manages alongside its balance sheet.
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Sep 07, 2026
Apollo and Triton have lined up a roughly $4.1bn exit from thermal management specialist Kelvion through a sale to energy technology major SLB.
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Sep 07, 2026
India's National Investment and Infrastructure Fund has brought in PAG's private equity fundraising head Gauravjit Singh to lead its global capital formation effort after mobilising about $3bn of new equity commitments over the past two years.
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Sep 07, 2026
Claret Capital Partners has scaled its flagship growth debt strategy by almost 50% through the €440m close of Fund IV.
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Sep 04, 2026
Carlyle and sports-focused private equity firm Dynasty Equity were among minority investments in current Super Bowl holders the Seattle Seahawks, supporting the Khosla family's $9.6bn acquisition of the NFL franchise.
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Sep 04, 2026
MS PARTNERS, co-founded by former KKR European impact head Stanislas de Joussineau, has reached a near-€150m first close for its debut pan-European private equity fund - almost halfway to its €300m target.
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Sep 04, 2026
UK venture capital investment more than doubled during the first seven months of 2026 despite virtually no increase in the number of deals, adding to evidence that the country's venture recovery is being driven by larger rounds, AI and late-stage businesses rather than a broad-based resurgence in dealmaking.
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Sep 04, 2026
Lower mid-market buyout house Tyree & D'Angelo Partners has nearly doubled the size of its flagship fund series after racing to a $650m hard-cap close for Fund IV in less than two-and-a-half months.
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Sep 04, 2026
Benetton family investment holding company Edizione has completed the combination of 21 Invest and Tages to create €3bn-AUM alternatives manager 21 NEXT, which is already preparing an €800m pan-European lower mid-market buyout fund as part of plans to more than triple its assets.
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Sep 04, 2026
Netley Capital has amassed about $1.2bn of firepower for its private equity tertiaries strategy, less than a year after launching the first dedicated pool targeting the emerging market.
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Sep 03, 2026
Apax Digital has agreed a strategic growth investment in securities finance technology platform Wematch, with the funds becoming majority shareholder following completion. Existing strategic investors Barclays, Deutsche Börse Group, JP Morgan and Societe Generale, alongside management, will remain invested. Wematch provides regulated digital infrastructure for securities lending and total return swap workflows, with close to […]
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Sep 03, 2026
Blue Owl Capital has hired Schroders executive Philippe Benedetti to lead its Swiss private wealth business, as the $319bn alternatives manager continues its expansion outside of the US by opening a Swiss office.
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Sep 03, 2026
Pantheon has expanded access to its infrastructure secondaries strategy through a new evergreen fund, two years after raising a record $5.3bn for its latest institutional infrastructure programme.
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Sep 03, 2026
CVC Secondary Partners has closed its sixth global private equity secondaries fund on $10bn, continuing a rapid expansion of the firm's firepower in the asset class.
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Sep 03, 2026
Constitution Capital Partners has launched a collective investment trust aimed at bringing its North American middle-market private equity strategy into US defined contribution retirement plans, as alternative asset managers position themselves for potentially significant new flows from the 401(k) market.
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Sep 03, 2026
HIG Capital has hired Blackstone senior managing director Younghee Choi as head of Asia, extending a rapid buildout of its capital formation operation as the $75bn alternatives manager looks to expand its Asian LP base.
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Sep 03, 2026
Polish private equity house Avallon MBO has held a €171.5m first close for its fourth flagship fund, already surpassing the total raised by its predecessor as its targets a potential €260m final close.
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Sep 03, 2026
Long-time Bowery Capital general partner Loren Straub has launched her own venture firm, Prompt Capital, and is seeking up to $40m for its debut fund.
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Sep 02, 2026
Epiris has agreed a cash acquisition of Unified Communications as a Service specialist Gamma Communications which gives the FTSE 250 business a roughly £1.08bn enterprise value.
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Sep 02, 2026
Nordic buyout house Axcel has closed its eighth flagship fund at a €2.1bn hard cap, increasing the strategy by 60% from its 2024 predecessor vehicle.
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Sep 02, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz has added $1.75bn of fresh capital to its fifth growth fund, increasing the vehicle to $8.5bn less than eight months after closing the vehicle.
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Sep 02, 2026
Special situations investor Ocean Avenue Capital Partners is back in the fundraising market eyeing up to $750m for its latest investment vehicle, which will target co-investments alongside independent sponsors.
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Sep 02, 2026
Charlesbank Capital Partners has named Brandon White and Sandor Hau as co-managing partners in a significant leadership transition at the $22bn-plus middle-market investor, with long-time CEO Michael Choe stepping back after 12 years at the helm.
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Sep 01, 2026
India's sovereign-anchored National Investment and Infrastructure Fund has reached a INR190bn ($2bn) first close for its second flagship infrastructure fund, already securing capital equivalent to roughly 85% of the final size of its predecessor.
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Sep 01, 2026
Ares Management has closed its fifth Japan logistics development fund at a JPY612bn ($4bn) hard cap, increasing the strategy by nearly 50% from its predecessor just over a year after acquiring the platform through GCP International.
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Sep 01, 2026
Carrick Capital Partners has closed a $600m single-asset continuation vehicle for Saviynt, offering existing LPs an 11x gross return on their original investment while committing another $255m to the identity security business - the largest investment in Carrick's history.
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Sep 01, 2026
LeapFrog Investments has hired former Helios Investment Partners global investor relations head Virginia Doble as partner and global head of Investor Solutions, putting her in charge of fundraising, co-investment and capital mobilisation.
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Aug 28, 2026
LGT Capital Partners has raised €850m for its seventh dedicated European small buyout fund, exceeding its €800m target.
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Aug 28, 2026
GenNx360 Capital Partners has nearly doubled the size of its flagship private equity fund with an $865m Fund IV close, substantially beating its original target after returning more than $1.3bn to investors over the past 12 months.
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Aug 28, 2026
StepStone Group has raised $1.7bn across its first dedicated infrastructure secondaries fund and related separate accounts, extending a strategy that has until now been pursued through the manager's wider infrastructure platform rather than a standalone closed-end vehicle.
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Aug 28, 2026
Permanent Capital Ventures has raised a $200m second fund targeting Series A applied AI investments, rapidly scaling a venture platform that only began investing in early 2024.
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Aug 28, 2026
Einride founders Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed Falck have launched Navisalma, a new European venture platform designed to combine venture investing with private equity-style operational value creation.
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Aug 28, 2026
MassMutual Ventures has launched a $150m second climate technology fund, maintaining the expanded scale of its first vehicle while sharpening its investment strategy around AI and technology targeting energy infrastructure, real estate and other real assets.
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Aug 27, 2026
Capital F, a venture capital firm targeting tech businesses serving markets where women drive purchasing and product demand, has closed its debut fund on $17.
The post Capital F closes $17m debut fund targeting $15tn ‘female economy', women make up nearly 85% of LP base appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.
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Aug 26, 2026
Granite Asia has surpassed $500m for its first pan-Asian private credit strategy, marking a rapid expansion beyond the venture capital business it inherited from GGV Capital after the firm's US-Asia split in 2024.
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Aug 26, 2026
Fiat Ventures has rebranded as FGV Capital alongside closing its second fund at $35m - 40% above its original target.
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Aug 25, 2026
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has closed its second Growth Markets Fund at about $3bn, nearly tripling the $1bn raised for its predecessor.
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Aug 24, 2026
Siguler Guff has raised $500m across its second Global Emerging Markets Growth Opportunities fund, co-investment vehicles and separately managed accounts - more than doubling the amount of capital its predecessor programme deployed into India.
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Aug 24, 2026
Temasek-backed Azalea Investment Management has raised more than $1bn across three private equity products, with the launch of its first evergreen vehicle helping offset a substantial reduction in the size of its latest flagship fund-of-funds.
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Aug 21, 2026
Gaming specialist Makers Fund has closed its fourth flagship vehicle at $250m - half the size of the $500m Fund III it raised at the height of the last gaming investment cycle in 2022.
The post Makers Fund closes $250m Fund IV raise, half the size of Fund III, amid gaming market "reset" appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.
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Aug 21, 2026
Private equity sponsors are increasingly turning to minority stake sales and hybrid capital as pressure to generate distributions collides with a still-challenging exit environment, according to a new market update from White & Case.
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Aug 21, 2026
Crestline Management has raised $625m for its second European Capital Solutions fund, increasing the strategy's fund size by nearly 75%.
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Aug 20, 2026
Machine Investment Group has increased the primary capital in its flagship real estate strategy by more than 40%, closing Machine Real Estate Fund II at its $350m hard cap.
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Aug 20, 2026
HIG Capital has hired former Oaktree Capital Management and Schroders Capital executives Tim Hsu and Chris Todisco as managing directors in its Capital Formation Group, strengthening its fundraising operation as the $75bn alternatives manager continues to expand its global credit platform.
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Aug 19, 2026
KKR has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Indian ticketing and entertainment platform BookMyShow, backing the company's expansion in live events and experiences.
The post Deal Roundup: KKR takes minority stake in BookMyShow, Rockbridge exits CheckedUp to Providence Equity Partners appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.
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Aug 19, 2026
Reach Capital has closed its largest fund to date at $265m amid a further expansion beyond the education technology specialism on which the venture manager built its business.
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Aug 19, 2026
Floating Point has raised $125m for its third fund, nearly doubling the size of its previous vehicle, as the early-stage investor looks to scale a strategy built around tech-enabled businesses operating in complex, capital-intensive sectors rather than traditional software.
The post Floating Point nearly doubles fund size with $125m Fund III, as ‘real-world' venture strategy gains scale appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.
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Aug 19, 2026
Broadwing Capital has closed its inaugural institutional private equity fund on $440m, beating its $350m target, as the four-year-old manager looks to scale a lower mid-market buy-and-build strategy that has already produced 26 acquisitions.
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Aug 18, 2026
Homestead Capital has held the first close of its debut commingled agriculture private credit fund, securing a $150m anchor commitment from a large US state pension system as it expands beyond the farmland equity strategy on which it built its $1.8bn investment platform.
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Aug 18, 2026
Investment house Ninety One has closed its third Africa Credit Opportunities fund on $404m including leverage, almost doubling the capital raised across its emerging market senior credit strategy to $815m.
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Aug 17, 2026
Great Hill Partners has hired former Bain & Company exec Sam Liu as director of AI, adding a second senior artificial intelligence specialist this year as the buyout major looks to embed the technology across both its investment process and portfolio company value creation.
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