Opalesque Industry Update - Despite volatile market conditions, venture capital (VC) investors seem to continue placing bets on promising start-ups as the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated the rate of digital adoption by companies across
Having officially launched earlier this year, new neobank HMBradley has now secured $18.25m in a Series A funding round.
Payments giant Stripe is reportedly looking to raise a funding round which could see its valuation reach somewhere between $70bn and $100bn.
Secondaries private equity specialist Committed Advisors has surged past the target for its fourth fund to hit a €1.6bn hard cap final close.
Charlesbank Capital Partners is already back in the fundraising market eyeing its biggest ever vehicle, just a couple of years after beginning to invest its $3bn ninth flagship fund.
Round Hill Ventures has hit a €200m final close for a European proptech fund targeting late seed to Series B investments.
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Apeiron Investment Group, angel investor Peter Thiel, and Catalio Capital Management have led a $125m series-C round for Germany-based psychedelic and non-psychedelic mental health therapy compounds developer Atai Life Sciences.
Reckitt Benckiser's corporate venture arm, RB Ventures, has invested in laundry company Oxwash.
Recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles also found that 83% of chief executive hires in the UK this year already had C-suite experience
Latour Capital has continued its blistering rise with a €1bn final close for its third fund.
Multi-strategy-focused Ibex Investors has scored a $100m final close for its second Israel fund eyeing markets and opportunities it believes are being dismissed as too difficult or too different by other asset managers.
HIG Capital has hit a €1.1bn final close for its third fund targeting lower mid-market European investments.
Venture capital major Andreessen Horowitz has boosted its capital under management to almost $16.5bn by closing $4.5bn across two new fundraises.
Bain Capital has more than tripled its capital under management dedicated to impact investing through an $800m fund close, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
New York-based Work-Bench is eyeing a big fund size increase by targeting up to $100m for its third flagship investment vehicle.
