HSBC Asset Management has launched a UK-focused direct lending investment capability as part of a plan to boost the firm’s alternative investments platform.
Tech investor Flashpoint has hit a first close for its $200m-targeting debut direct secondaries fundraise.
TMT investment research firm LightShed Partners has branched out into venture capital investing through the close of its $75m debut fundraise.
Private equity majors Centerbridge and Cerberus Capital Management were the big winners from $2.1bn of new commitments from the Florida State Board of Administration.
Sapphire Ventures has scored $1.7bn of new capital across a string of new funds, which will primarily be used to ramp up the firm's investments in Series B through IPO enterprise tech companies.
Life science investor Abingworth has upped the ante yet again with its 13th fundraise by hitting a $465m final close for the fund.
Israel-based venture capital house FinTLV has raised $120m for its second fund targeting global growth-stage insurtech and fintech companies.
Teamworthy Ventures is back in the market with its third flagship fundraise, this time with a goal of up to $125m.
The venture capital industry scored an "exceptional" year for performance in 2020 as the effects of the global coronavirus crisis failed to bite into returns from the asset class, new research shows.
Bond Capital, the venture capital house founded by former executive at Kleiner Perkins, is reportedly eyeing $1.5bn for its second fundraise.
The $83.3bn-managing New Jersey Division of Investment has committed $475m across four infrastructure, venture capital and debt funds.
Newly-created healthcare investor Lauxera Capital Partners has pulled in about €100m for the first close of its debut fundraise.
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has strengthened its team with the hire of experienced corporate finance exec Will Scales as an investment director.
A string of venture capital firms have helped HR software platform Personio hit a $1.7bn valuation by backing the company's latest funding round.
European private equity shrugged off the pressures of Covid-19 to score among its best dealmaking and fundraising years of the past decade in 2020, new research shows.
Spanish private equity and venture capital dealmaking had record-breaking years in 2020 despite the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, new research shows.
Portfolio optimisation service provider Quantile Technologies has scored a $51m minority investment from growth equity firm Spectrum Equity.
Asian private equity house Navis Capital Partners has completed an investment in digital banking solutions business Moneythor.
Sustainable investment specialist Impax Asset Management has bolstered its private equity and infrastructure operations by bringing in Sean Maguire as a managing director.
Private equity-focused asset manager Flexstone Partners has promoted three new managing directors.
