Fundraising

Fund II's limited partners include endowments, family offices, and fund of funds.

In a subdued deal environment, mid-market buyouts are drawing more attention. This perhaps explains why KKR has had success with the debut strategy at a time when fundraising is especially challenging.

Fund VIII will invest in specialty manufacturing, value-added distribution, consumer products and services and business services sectors across North America.

The fund is among several that are bringing capital into a small and emerging manager ecosystem that is seeing a general reduction of capital flows.

Meet up-and-coming fundraising professionals who have been developing their firms' IR functions and forging investor relationships from the Americas to Asia-Pacific.

Unique for an emerging manager, Unity Partners is committed to practicing employee ownership in all its mid-market buyout investments.

The manager will not collect carried interest for this fund.

The firm is raising the pool at a time when interest among LPs in gaining direct exposure to companies is on the rise and the capital pool for independent sponsors is growing.

Private equity funds raised $88bn by the end of March, down 34% from a year earlier. This marked the first time that quarterly inflows have fallen below $100bn since 2020. The number of fund closings declined even more significantly.

LPs have shown interest in diversifying via industry-focused funds.