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The Avendus Future Leaders Fund III is seeking to raise about $300 million for its private equity unit, with plans to write larger checks more frequently. The firm's third private equity fund aims to target growth-stage startups, as evidenced by its previous work with companies like Zepto, Lenskart, Xpressbees, CaratLane, and Atomberg. This represents a shift from its earlier fund sizes, with its second fund totaling around $185 million and its maiden fund at $50 million in size. Target sectors include information technology, insurance, food product, apparel, accessory, asset management and fintech sectors. The fund is designed to create value for its investors by investing opportunistically in ‘best of breed’ late stage private companies. The fund pursues a unique and differentiated strategy by focusing primarily on opportunistic situations for investment. The Fund is indifferent between primary and secondary investments and offers a quick turnaround to companies/ entrepreneurs. Investment Size: USD 10-30 million per transaction, minority stake.

Axcel Fund VII is the seventh flagship fund raised by Axcel, one of the Nordic region's most established private equity firms, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Fund VII closed at the firm's hard cap of EUR 1.3 billion in March 2024, surpassing its EUR 1 billion target and marking a 60% increase over predecessor Axcel VI (EUR 807 million, 2021), reflecting the continued expansion of Axcel's franchise across the Nordic market over three decades of investment. The fund follows Axcel's disciplined mid-market buyout strategy, acquiring majority or significant minority stakes in established Nordic companies and driving value creation through four strategic pillars: commercial excellence, buy-and-build consolidation, digital transformation, and sustainability improvements. Axcel VII focuses on four core sectors: Technology and Software, Business Services and Industrials, Healthcare, and Consumer. Initial portfolio investments include a sustainability-focused technical consulting group, a software and information services company, electrical panel providers, and a professional services group, demonstrating cross-sector deployment across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Axcel VII held its final close on March 6, 2024 with EUR 1.296 billion of committed capital at the hard cap. The fund attracted a diverse international investor base including foundations, pension funds, insurance companies, funds of funds, and family offices from the Nordics, Europe, and the Americas. This close confirmed Axcel's status as the leading Nordic mid-market private equity manager and underscored institutional demand for focused Nordic exposure in a period of global private equity market recalibration.

CRV XX, LP is a $750 million early-stage venture capital fund representing the twentieth flagship vehicle of CRV, formerly known as Charles River Ventures, one of the longest-tenured venture capital firms in the United States with roots dating to 1970. The fund achieved both its first and final close simultaneously on August 6, 2025, raising its full $750 million target in approximately four weeks with reported LP demand exceeding double the fund size. CRV XX reflects the firm's deliberate strategic refocus on early-stage conviction investing following its exit from late-stage venture in 2024, when it returned $275 million to limited partners from its Select Fund II vehicle rather than deploy capital into what it viewed as unattractive mature-company valuations. CRV XX is dedicated to leading seed and Series A investment rounds in foundational technology companies, continuing the firm's longstanding strategy of entering at the earliest institutional stage. Investment themes include consumer technology, developer tools, cybersecurity, and businesses that integrate artificial intelligence as a horizontal capability across industry verticals rather than treating AI as a standalone category. CRV describes its approach as backing companies that blend AI with distinct domains to build defensible, infrastructure-grade businesses. The fund is deliberately sized at $750 million, below the $1 billion raised by predecessor Fund XIX in 2022, to preserve the conviction-per-bet ratio that CRV believes is essential at the seed and Series A stage. CRV's 55-year track record encompasses more than 750 investments across its flagship funds, with notable portfolio companies and exits including DoorDash, Mercury, Vercel, Browserbase, and CodeRabbit. The firm operates as a concentrated partnership offering hands-on founder engagement at the earliest stages. Fund XIX raised $1 billion in 2022, and the decision to downsize CRV XX to $750 million while turning away significant excess demand underscores the firm's conviction that fund size discipline is central to sustaining top-quartile returns in early-stage venture capital.

The $750 million private equity multi-asset continuation fund announced by Hildred Capital is focused on healthcare and specializes in partnering with middle-market companies. The fund was structured to align the interests of the general partnership and limited partners, with the co-founders rolling over 100% of their economic interests into the continuation fund. Limited partners had the option to roll all, sell all, or sell a portion of their interests and roll a portion into the continuation fund. This fund aims to provide additional committed capital for companies to execute organic growth initiatives, pursue strategic acquisitions, and continue to drive operating leverage. It has generated significant liquidity and attractive returns for selling limited partners while also providing new investors with the opportunity to participate over time in the appreciation of strong and growing companies.

New Mountain Partners VII is a buyout fund managed by New Mountain Capital and located in New York. The fund will acquire controlling stakes in companies valued between $100 million and $1 billion, typically investing between $100 million and $500 million per transaction​. New Mountain Capital targets sectors characterized by sustainable and noncyclical growth, which they refer to as "defensive growth industries." These include life sciences, advanced materials, healthcare technologies, infrastructure services, and digital transformation services, among others. As of APril 2024, the fund has raised US$12.4 billion, above its target of US$12 billion. The fund expects to do around 20 investments.