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CalSTRS promotes Kirsty Jenkinson to Senior Investment Director of Private Markets & SISS, leveraging her expertise in sustainable investing to lead real estate, private equity, and more. #PrivateEquity #SustainableInvesting #CalSTRS
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GoalVest Venture Capital, a female-founded division of GoalVest Advisory, has announced the first close of GoalVest Venture Growth Fund II, which is targeting a $50 million raise. Approximately 60 Limited Partners (LPs) are participating in this initial close.
This fundraising milestone follows the good performance of Fund I, which celebrated the IPO of CoreWeave, a leading AI infrastructure company, in late March 2025. Since its IPO, CoreWeave’s value has increased approxima...
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After navigating several years of "tempestuous" conditions, marked by subdued dealmaking, exit activity, and fundraising following an "unsustainable level of exuberance" in 2021, the market is showing clear signs of recovery. A 25% rebound in global private equity and venture capital dealmaking value in 2024 indicates a cautious but growing optimism for steadily improving market conditions in the year ahead and beyond. Show more
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Though the UK has a broad and diverse innovation base, VC investment is increasingly concentrated in high-growth, early-stage sectors where the UK has an edge.
https://privatebank.barclays.com/insights/navigating-the-uk-venture-capital-landscape-08-2025/
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Continuation vehicles are becoming important in today’s private investment world. They allow investment managers to keep holding onto their best-performing assets longer, instead of being forced to sell them when their original fund reaches its end. If you’re new to the concept or just want a clear overview, here’s everything you need to know - from what they are to how they get set up and why they matter.
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Time Magazine recently ranked the top US VC firms. At NEWNEX, we’re taking it a step further — building a platform that brings all VCs together to syndicate directly, collaborate on deals, and network without intermediaries.
Join www.newnex.io, get verified, and start connecting with fellow investors today.
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Venture capital (VC) investment in Europe experienced a modest decline in the second quarter of 2025, reflecting growing investor caution amid an uncertain geopolitical and trade environment. According to recent data, total VC funding dropped from $16.3 billion in Q1 2025 to $14.6 billion in Q2 2025. https://www.newnex.io/b...
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Almost every major IPO listing in Q2 hit the public markets below its peak valuation, the data from PitchBook adds. Some examples include:
MNTN (at IPO, valuation was down from $2 billion to $1.1 billion),
Circle (dropping from $7.7 billi...
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Porsche Automobil Holding SE and Deutsche Telekom AG are in discussions to serve as anchor investors for a new €500 million venture capital fund focused on European defense technology companies.
The fund will be managed by DTCP, an investment firm that was previously part of Deutsche Telekom. This initiative comes amid rising European military spending, especially following Russia’s invasion o...
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Private market funds lag US stocks over short and long term State Street private equity index outpaced by S&P 500 over 3 months and 1, 3, 5 and 10 years for first time since 2000
Private market funds, including private equity, private debt, and venture capital, have underperformed US large-cap stocks across all standard time horizons for the first time since 2000. According to the State Street private equity index, private market funds returned 7.08% in 2024, compared to ...
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested €20 million in Spire Capital Partners Fund I, a new independent private equity fund based in Poland. The fund, with €90 million under management, will focus on equity and quasi-equity investments in technology-enabled small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland and across central and eastern Europe. Typical investments will range from €5 to €20 million, targeting companies with established market positions and st...
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Korea Investment Partners (KIP), one of South Korea’s leading venture capital and private equity firms, has invested $10 million in SpaceX. While relatively small compared to the multi-billion-dollar rounds the company has attracted in recent years, the move signals growing international participation in the space sector’s most valuable private company. KIP’s entry comes as SpaceX is estimated to be valued at around $400 billion, placing it among the most valuable privately held enterprises i...
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In the first half of 2025, the U.S. venture capital landscape revealed a stark divide, with just 12 firms securing over 50% of all venture capital raised, according to PitchBook’s analysis. This concentration underscores a growing trend where elite, multi-strategy firms dominate fundraising, while smaller and first-time fund managers face significant hurdles.
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Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) has taken a decisive step to strengthen its presence in Israel by appointing Ron Miasnik as the firm’s first partner dedicated to the Israeli market. At just 26, Miasnik is one of the youngest partners at a global venture capital powerhouse, tasked with spearheading BCV’s strategy, deal flow, and portfolio expansion in one of the world’s most vibrant tech ecosystems.
The appointment comes after a year in which BCV invested more tha...
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The venture capital firm Team8 Capital is in the advanced stages of raising a new fund of $250–300 million, Calcalist has learned. This will be the second fund the firm’s partners have raised since the outbreak of the war in Israel on October 7, 2023, and the third overall since the fund’s inception.
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Rillet, a New York-based accounting and ERP start-up, has just clinched $70 million in Series B funding—only 10 weeks after its $25 million Series A round. The latest investment was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ, with Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, and existing backers also participating. Notably, Andreessen Horowitz’s Alex Rampell and ICONIQ’s Seth Pierrepont will join Rillet’s board as part of the deal.
Founded in 2021, Rillet provides an AI-powered ERP platform that integr...
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Tesi, a government-backed investor, manages €3B+ and helps bridge risk gaps in early-stage VC, biotech, and deep tech.
Europe’s VC ecosystem is evolving fast, with strengths in deep tech and life sciences—but we still need robust late-stage capital and a true pan-European tech exchange to retain high-growth companies.
Fund manager due diligence is getting sharper: alignment, transparency, and “skin in the game” matter more than ever for long-term partnerships...
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Berlin’s artificial intelligence startup n8n has become the latest European tech unicorn, after venture capital firm Accel is said to lead a funding round pushing its valuation to $2.3 billion—up from $350 million just four months earlier. Meritech Capital, among other investors, is expected to join the hundreds-of-millions-euro round, reflecting a booming appetite for AI bets across the continent.
Bloomberg reports that Accel overcame competing offers from heavyweights like ...
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SoftBank Group has kicked off fiscal 2025 with a dramatic upswing, posting a robust net profit of 421.8 billion yen ($2.87 billion) in the first quarter. This surge underscores a remarkable financial turnaround for the Japanese conglomerate, propelled by a bold investment strategy centered on artificial intelligence.
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Index Ventures’ returns: An initial $86.5 million stake turned into nearly $6 billion at IPO, helping Index reap well over $11 billion across exits with other portfolio companies like Scale AI and Wiz
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Frazier Life Sciences has closed a new $1.3 billion venture fund aimed at early-stage biotechnology investments. The fund will support the creation and development of startups focused on preclinical and early clinical-stage therapies.
This move places Frazier among the leading biotech venture firms recently raising large funds, reflecting continued interest in innovation despite challenging market conditions.
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Venture capital firm CRV has raised a $750 million fund—its 20th—to invest exclusively in early-stage startups. This marks a significant strategic shift for the firm, which is moving away from late-stage investing after returning a large portion of capital from a previous follow-on fund. CRV believes that doubling down on seed and Series A investments aligns better with its strengths and offers higher long-term returns.
The decision to scale back came after concerns that late...
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Companies staying private longer has structurally hurt the publicly traded small caps, and moreover has helped the mega caps, because they can buy the private companies and hoover up those growth engines
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Anaconda, a leading provider of open-source tools and enterprise-grade solutions for data science and machine learning, has raised $150 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Insight Partners, a prominent global venture capital and private equity firm.
This latest capital injection marks a significant milestone for Anaconda as it aims to expand its platform capabilities and accelerate the adoption of its Python-based data science solutions across industries...
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San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is in advanced discussions to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $170 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round, led by Iconiq Capital, underscores the intense investor enthusiasm for AI companies driving innovation in the rapidly expanding generative AI market. This news comes just months after Anthropic secured $3.5 ...
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The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), a $211 billion pension fund, is increasingly concerned about the influx of retail investor capital into private equity and real estate, which is projected to grow from $4 trillion to $13 trillion by 2032, potentially accounting for 22% of global alternative assets. This surge, discussed at a recent TRS investment committee meeting, raises risks around liquidity, transparency, and valuations, as retail investors could swell fund sizes, dilute insti...
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Major asset managers like EQT, Franklin Lexington, and Oaktree are launching semi-liquid funds aimed at retail investors. These offer lower minimums (as low as £25K) and periodic liquidity windows, making private markets more accessible
1. Increased Accessibility: Private markets, including private equity and venture capital, are now more open to retail investors due to regulatory changes and new investment platforms.
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The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has formally requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI application from the application stores due to GDPR violations.
The commissioner, Meike Kamp, alleges that DeepSeek’s owner, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, based in Beijing, unlawfully collects data from German users and transfers them for processing in servers in China.
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Team S
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Vugene, a Lithuanian startup specializing in multi-omics data analysis, has raised €1 million in a seed funding round led by Superhero Capital, with participation from ScaleWolf and angel investors including Darius Žurauskas, Donatas Karčiauskas, and Gytis Labašauskas. The company aims to transform complex biological data into actionable insights for researchers tackling global health challenges such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and rare disorders.
Vugene leverages ...
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Hamilton Lane, a leading global private markets investment firm, has announced the launch of the Hamilton Lane Venture Capital and Growth Fund (HLVCG), a new evergreen investment vehicle registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. https://www.newnex.io/blogs/venture-capital/hamilton-lane-launches-us-ventu...
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