Fundraising

The enterprise AI venture fund will back AI companies from early-stage to "hyper-growth" start-ups.

Factor Venture Capital Fund I is targeting $30m to invest in seed-stage blockchain start-ups.

Bee Partners IV, which closed on $50m, has already deployed 20 percent of its capital to seven companies, including three generative AI start-ups.

Shield Capital co-founder Philip Bilden shares how the firm raised four times more than a typical first-time fund and secured commitments from endowments, pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors.

European venture funds and founders have had their own fundraising challenges.

We refined our methodology to focus on capital raised for classic VC capital funds and didn’t include capital raised for growth equity.

Firms that successfully closed on new funds share lessons from the fundraising trail and their outlook for next year.

Climate tech funds have completed some of the largest fundraises this year, in spite of capital constraints that have reduced allocations to more generalist venture funds.

The fund is targeting $150m to back direct secondary opportunities in European growth-stage companies.

Leverage VC was founded by serial entrepreneurs Meir Bulua, David Rabinovici, and Menashe Kestenbaum.