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With more VC-backed start-ups choosing to stay private longer, liquidity to fuel recruitment and retention is in short supply. A new partnership between NewView Capital and Carta aims to make company-sponsored tenders easier to execute.

Alex Gorsky has been named a general partner at Iconiq Growth.

CalPERS committed a combined $2.1 billion to 13 growth equity and VC funds in the third quarter of 2023, a new report shows.

Bicycle Capital has raised $440mn for its debut fund, anchored by Mubadala Investment Company and Claure Group – the family office of Bicycle's founder, Marcelo Claure, former COO of Softbank Group.

CPPIB's new growth equity unit appears to have swallowed up the pension manager's three-year-old venture capital business.

Large asset managers’ participation in venture capital deals is nothing new. But it has only grown in recent years, and non-traditional investors are now going downstream even more, participating in outsized seed deals. The competition that has emerged will likely impact VC for years to come.

Rising valuations and other factors have boosted the alternative strategy in recent years as more venture firms consider adding them to their repertoire. So far, LPs are responding positively.