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Over its history, Roark has invested in a who’s who of quick-service restaurant chains, many of them acquired in multibillion-dollar deals.

The firm, which launched with a deal-by-deal model, has invested heavily in operating partners as part of its investment thesis.

Fund III will target North American companies within the tech-enabled business services and consumable products industries.

Bucking the industry trend of challenging fundraising and more time on the road, Arcline closed Fund IV in under 10 months.

Ben Luckett, who set up Aviva's VC platform in 2015, says low distributed to paid-in ratios have been less of an issue for the investor to date due to the use of evergreen structures.

Nordic Capital's Fund XII intends to make equity investments between €250m and €1bn across four key sectors.

Fund III’s LPs include endowments and foundations, investment advisers and fund-of-funds, public and private pension plans, family offices, and financial and insurance institutions.

There is now proof of concept that institutional and retail products can successfully be managed side by side, say Davis Polk’s Andrew Ahern, Oran Ebel, Christopher Healey and Leor Landa.

The firm wrapped its fund up in about a quarter of the average industry time.