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The tech-focused investor is expected to hold the final close on Saturn 3 by next quarter and is seeking €5.5bn for its latest mid-cap vehicle.

Sherrese Clarke Soares, founder of HarbourView Equity Partners, sets the tempo for women aspiring to the C-suite. We salute 10 accomplished professionals and their achievements in a hyper-competitive field of play.

With Fund XI, JMI appears to be tapping into key themes of last year’s vigorous fundraising market. One of them is a faster pace of fundraising.

Fundraising platforms-turned-GPs are revolutionising a traditionally laborious commitment process for wealth managers and their clients

Primed by a vigorous deal environment, tech PE fundraising rose to dizzying heights in 2021, with 474 North American vehicles collecting an all-time high of $227bn, according to Buyouts data.

Ten Coves had planned to launch its first independent fund in 2020, but had to delay plans and focus on its existing portfolios in the pandemic.

The target is more than triple that of Fund V’s predecessor, which sought $350m, and almost triple the $420m brought in by Fund IV in a final close last year.

Permira has closed its second growth opportunities fund at $4 billion, beating its $2.5 billion target.

A VC professional by training, Irwin founded Camber in April 2020 with a distinctive modus operandi for making control acquisitions of product-led growth software businesses.

Smarter sourcing can make a world of difference to PE professionals searching for the right third-party advisers when there are so many unique needs to consider, says BluWave founder and CEO Sean Mooney.