Investors

Planeteer Capital closed its debut fund with anchor investments from an Ivy League university endowment and Mike Schroepfer, former CTO of Meta and a partner at Gigascale Capital, after pitching more than 400 potential LPs.

Staff and consultants of the $5bn Silicon Valley pension are bullish about opportunities in a depressed VC marketplace.

Investors in Zeal's $82m Fund II include Capricorn Investment Group, Citi Impact Fund, Hampton University, M&T Bank, MassMutual, Spelman College, Wells Fargo and Zaffre Investments.

'We decided to actively go find partners in Canada and Europe to be long-term partners,' managing partner John Tough tells Venture Capital Journal.

LPs in Longview’s North America University Innovations Fund include UK-based IP Group plc, institutional investors, large multi-family offices and prominent single-family offices.

Firm with $7.3bn raised in VC program since first fund in 1990 anticipating return of IPOs and M&As later this year or next, with uptick of CVs in the meantime.

Mat Powley, a partner on the private capital team, talks about the $28bn UK multifamily office’s approach to new and venture GPs for its flagship fund of funds.

The fund’s strategic and impact-oriented LPs include big pharma names such as Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, AARP and Alzheimer’s Research UK, which are excited by improved scientific understanding of dementia that promise to increase clinical trial successes.

The fund, which is targeting €125m, will focus on early-stage start-ups across Europe operating in sectors such as cybersecurity, information superiority, robotics, AI, autonomous systems and space technology.

Leyla Holterud 'is the ideal leader to scale our European platform and the bridges we have been building between Europe and the rest of the world for well over a decade,' says Vintage co–managing partner Asaf Horesh.