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Sep 30, 2026
Apollo has completed its acquisition of Nippon Sheet Glass in a transaction carrying an enterprise value of almost $3.7bn, completing what the alternatives giant says is its largest private equity investment in Japan to date.
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Sep 30, 2026
Energy Revolution Ventures is targeting a near-threefold increase in fund size with a $50m second vehicle focused on early-stage energy transition technology.
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Sep 30, 2026
CAZ Investments' private markets interval fund has grown beyond $900m of assets after adding more than $110m in roughly three months, as alternative managers continue to expand their reach into the private wealth market.
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Sep 30, 2026
Rising Point Capital Management has raised $325m for its first institutional private equity fund after moving from an independent sponsor model to committed capital.
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Sep 30, 2026
Franchise investment specialist Princeton Equity Group has more than doubled the size of its flagship private equity fund after raising $1.3bn for Fund III in just two months.
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Sep 29, 2026
AAR has agreed to acquire a 65% controlling interest in Bain Capital-backed MRO Holdings at a $4bn implied enterprise value, paying about $1.8bn of equity value for the initial stake and repaying roughly $1.3bn of MRO's existing borrowings.
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Sep 29, 2026
Almost two-thirds of institutional investors expect to increase their exposure to infrastructure equity and private equity over the next three to five years, according to a global survey of 700 investors by IFM Investors.
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Sep 29, 2026
New York City comptroller Mark Levine is seeking to put another $5bn of the city's pension capital into private-market climate strategies spanning power generation, grid modernisation, energy storage and resilient infrastructure.
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Sep 29, 2026
Blackstone global private equity head Joseph Baratta is preparing to leave the alternatives giant by the end of the year after almost three decades at the firm, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
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Sep 29, 2026
Sofinnova Partners has increased the size of its specialist medtech company-creation strategy by 30% after closing its fourth MD Start fund on an oversubscribed €82m.
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Sep 29, 2026
Seligman Investments has doubled the deployable capital available to its venture arm to $1bn, just eight months after launching the platform with $500m, amid a surge in investment opportunities across AI infrastructure, semiconductors and cybersecurity.
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Sep 28, 2026
Bessemer Venture Partners has more than doubled the size of its dedicated growth fund amid a major expansion of its later-stage investment strategy, as the VC giant raised $5.75bn across a new group of vehicles.
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Sep 28, 2026
Ibex Investors has more than doubled the size of its Israel-focused secondaries strategy by closing its second fund on $87m, less than two years after raising $40m for its debut vehicle.
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Sep 28, 2026
Third Point has led a $3.36bn pre-IPO convertible financing for British AI infrastructure business Nscale, with Nvidia, funds managed by Apollo, Citadel, Hudson Bay Capital, Abu Dhabi Investment Council and 8090 Industries among the investors.
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Sep 28, 2026
Institutional investors poured $190bn into private credit funds during the first half of 2026, a 53% jump from a year earlier despite the redemption pressure and market volatility that have hit parts of the asset class.
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Sep 28, 2026
PCCP has raised a combined $5bn across its latest US real estate equity and credit funds, with both vehicles increasing substantially from their predecessors and already putting significant amounts of their capital to work.
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Sep 25, 2026
Lightspeed Venture Partners is targeting $250m for its fifth India fund - half the size of its predecessor - as the VC major sharpens its early-stage investment strategy in the region around artificial intelligence.
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Sep 25, 2026
JP Morgan Asset Management's Natural Capital business has committed about $200m to build a large-scale sustainable forestry platform in Paraguay alongside local agricultural and forestry group Grupo Robinson.
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Sep 25, 2026
Zero Infinity Partners has increased the size of its early-stage infrastructure technology strategy by 50% with an oversubscribed $156m second fund close, three years after launching its debut vehicle.
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Sep 24, 2026
Blackstone Infrastructure has completed its investment in Danish renewables developer Eurowind Energy, acquiring a 24.7% stake and committing up to €2bn to accelerate the company's European development pipeline. The investment was originally agreed in April and leaves chief executive and co-founder Jens Rasmussen invested alongside Danish energy and telecoms group Norlys. Eurowind had 1.5GW of […]
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Sep 24, 2026
Cheyne Capital has raised £3bn across its latest European real estate debt strategy and adjacent vehicles, with more than half of investors' capital already deployed across a 73-loan portfolio.
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Sep 24, 2026
Argos has closed its ninth European mid-market private equity fund on €736m, marking a 64% jump from the €450m raised for its predecessor vehicle.
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Sep 24, 2026
DTCP has pulled in €455m at the first close of its debut defence fund, putting the vehicle within 10% of its €500m target.
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Sep 24, 2026
The British Business Bank has agreed to back two Advent Life Sciences funds with up to £135m amid an ongoing expansion in its funding for the sector.
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Sep 24, 2026
US public pension funds increased private equity commitments by 24% last year despite continuing pressure from weak distributions, putting $100.9bn into the asset class during 2025, according to new Nasdaq eVestment data.
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Sep 24, 2026
US public pension funds increased private equity commitments by 24% last year despite continuing pressure from weak distributions, putting $100.9bn into the asset class during 2025, according to new Nasdaq eVestment data.
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Sep 24, 2026
Engine Ventures has hired former Oak HC/FT partner Michelle Daubar as partner and head of investor relations and capital formation, adding a fundraising executive who has helped raise almost $10bn of institutional capital during her private-markets career.
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Sep 24, 2026
EQT has launched a dedicated Middle East investment platform and opened an Abu Dhabi office, putting private equity and infrastructure professionals on the ground as the $389bn alternatives manager expands its investment operations across the Gulf.
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Sep 24, 2026
Connect Ventures has reached a $55m first close for its fifth fund, as the European early-stage investor sharpens its strategy around technically led companies in AI, infrastructure, hardware, robotics and biotech.
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Sep 23, 2026
Private equity giant Advent International is targeting $3bn for its first dedicated global mid-market buyout fund, building on positive performance from its existing investments in the segment.
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Sep 23, 2026
The British Business Bank has launched a £140m debt and equity fund for smaller businesses in the East of England, completing its rollout of targeted investment funds across every UK nation and English region outside London.
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Sep 23, 2026
Public equities have overtaken private markets as the leading destination for new family-office capital in 2026, but private equity and direct investments remain core holdings as wealthy investors become more selective about where they deploy money, according to Citi Wealth.
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Sep 23, 2026
Eight in 10 US private equity firms are now holding portfolio companies for at least five years, while an even larger proportion expect acquisition prices to rise over the coming 12 months as competition for assets intensifies, new BDO research shows.
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Sep 23, 2026
Platinum Equity has completed its $6.6bn sale of environmental infrastructure business Urbaser to Blackstone Infrastructure and EQT Infrastructure, five years after buying the Madrid-headquartered company for $4.2bn.
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Sep 23, 2026
Brown University has promoted deputy CIO Joshua Kennedy to lead its $8bn endowment as Jane Dietze prepares to leave after eight years as CIO.
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Sep 23, 2026
Sundance Growth has doubled the size of its flagship growth equity strategy with a $250m second fund close, just 15 months after raising its $125m debut vehicle.
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Sep 22, 2026
Certares has extended its almost decade-long ownership of Guardian Alarm through a single-asset continuation fund led by New 2ND Capital.
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Sep 22, 2026
Constitution Capital Partners has hired WTW retirement industry veteran Rich Schainker as a managing director to expand its defined-contribution business, just weeks after launching a private equity vehicle targeting the US retirement plan market.
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Sep 22, 2026
Schroders Capital has raised $1.3bn for its fourth flagship private equity co-investment fund, making it the firm's largest closed-ended commingled PE vehicle to date.
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Sep 22, 2026
Carlyle and CVC DIF have agreed to acquire 90% of European remote-security business BauWatch from German family investment group Haniel in a deal valuing the company at about €1bn, according to Reuters, citing two people familiar with the transaction.
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Sep 22, 2026
Qatar Investment Authority has agreed a $20bn investment partnership with JP Morgan Asset Management that includes a $5bn private-markets programme targeting US middle-market companies.
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Sep 21, 2026
Climate-focused venture investor Pulse Fund has closed its debut fund on $63m, drawing commitments from an Asian sovereign wealth fund alongside institutional investors, family offices and corporate LPs.
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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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