Consumer Products

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 (formerly Charles River Ventures) is one of the world's oldest active venture capital firms, backing technology founders continuously since 1970. The CRV 20th Flagship Fund is the firm's twentieth primary fund vehicle, raised at $750 million and formally closed in August 2025. The fund represents a deliberate downsize relative to CRV's prior $1 billion flagship, reflecting the firm's conviction that early-stage returns compress at scale. Notably, CRV returned $275 million of unallocated capital from its prior $500 million Select late-stage vehicle before beginning the new raise, signaling a full refocus on early-stage opportunity and meaningful ownership in each portfolio company. The fund invests exclusively at the seed and Series A stages in the United States, organized around two founding themes: consumer companies and developer tools (devtools). These verticals distill CRV's observed edge over five decades: the firm has backed consumer-first breakouts including DoorDash and Mercury, and developer tooling leaders including Vercel and CodeRabbit. CRV leads rounds rather than following, with a stated commitment to deliver term sheets within 24 hours of meeting a founding team. No companion late-stage vehicle is being raised alongside this fund, ensuring portfolio focus and maximum ownership depth at entry. The CRV 20th Flagship Fund raised commitments from a deep institutional LP base in approximately four weeks, with investor demand reported at double the $750 million hard cap — an unusually fast close pace for a fund of this size. Since 1970, CRV has backed over 750 startups, of which at least 80 have gone public. The fund entered an active Investing phase immediately following its August 2025 close and will deploy capital over a standard 3 to 4 year investment period into seed and Series A companies primarily in the United States technology ecosystem.

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.