Fundraising

In today's edition, Fundraising was up in Q3, per preliminary PEI Group data; Why the Fed's rate hike is unlikely to derail private equity dealmaking; A VC manager is back in the market with its sophomore GP stakes vehicle.

The firm started raising the strategy in Q2 and aims to reach final close by Q1 next year as more funds emerge in this space, Private Equity International has learned.

About 20% of Carrick Capital Partners' Fund II LPs opted to roll their equity into the $600m continuation vehicle, says co-CEO Jim Madden.

The private equity model isn’t broken, but the illusion of uniform success is, writes Scott Hart, partner and chief executive at StepStone Group.

Menlo has doubled the size of its co-investment vehicle designed to give LPs exposure to Anthropic and other AI companies, a source tells VCJ.

Canadian fundraising slumped in 2025, though it was a record year for private equity investment in the country.

After a surge in interest around the covid-19 pandemic, it has been a mixed picture for life sciences and biotech-focused PE fundraising and capital deployment.

The number of Asia-Pacific portfolio companies held for more than five years rose 18% in 2025, according to Bain & Co’s Asia-Pacific Private Equity Report 2026.

The firm sees opportunities at the intersection of energy and Europe’s push for greater sovereignty, IR head Cenk Turkinan tells PEI.

Despite a fundraising slowdown, France remains a steady presence in European private equity.