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Investors include La Caisse, BDC, Investissement Québec, Teralys, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, CIBC and Fondaction.

The California pension plans to make intermittent investments in VC funds, but it will focus on building out its core buyout strategy.

The industry is on pace to collect upwards of $94bn this year, an improvement over 2025 but down sharply from previous years.

Europe has proven comparatively resilient, while venture capital – especially in Asia-Pacific – continues to bear the brunt of the industry’s fundraising slowdown.

'We're at sort of the inflection point' of focusing on Southeast Asia, says Allen Taylor of Endeavor Catalyst, which has just closed on $320m for its fifth fund.

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.

The UK firm's oversubscribed Fund III closed after just five months of fundraising, buoyed by returning LPs such as Sofina, Granite Asia and Hillman Family Foundations, and new LPs including Horsley Bridge Partners.

The venture capitalists who appear on this year's Women of Influence list were selected from roughly 60 nominations from eight countries: Austria, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Spain, the UK and the US.

We asked this year’s Women of Influence which trends are catching their eye – and how those trends might develop.