Lawrence Aragon and Iris Dorbian

Heartland raises $52m for Fund II as interest in Midwest picks up

Tapping into growing interest in start-ups based in the Midwest, Heartland Ventures has closed its second fund at $52m.

EQT Ventures raises €1.1bn for companies targeting 'biggest challenges'

EQT Ventures III is focused on European and North American early-stage tech start-ups.

'Smart gun' maker Biofire lands rare VC investment

Biofire, which is making a gun that can only be discharged by its owner, has raised $14 million in Series A funding.

Activate joins fundraising bonanza for climate funds

The San Francisco-based firm is the seventh VC to raise or announce new climate fund in the past four months.

National security-focused Razor's Edge raises $340m

The Reston, Virginia-based firm raised about $159m for its second fund in 2018.

As Europe heats up, Northzone raises record €1bn for 10th fund

The new vehicle is the firm's largest to date and twice the size of its previous fund raised three years ago.

BofA, Ford Foundation, other big LPs pile into diverse-led Kapor Capital's third fund

Fund III raised $126m from about 70 LPs, including Bank of America, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Cambridge Associates, Ford Foundation and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.

Sequoia Capital China raises nearly $9bn across four funds: report

Sequoia’s success runs counter to the overall fundraising trend for venture funds based in greater China (defined as China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), has been on the decline for the past few years.