Managers

At 29, Dan Chaplin has been promoted three times in five years and now co-leads the London VC firm’s fintech and digital assets segment.

Amadeus Capital Partners and Apex Ventures have held a first close on €28m for a joint venture fund that will invest in European deep tech start-ups. The fund is targeting €80m.

The vehicle has a target of €65m with a hard-cap of €80m.

Now that the market correction has occurred, Anterra Capital is ready to execute its strategy and intends to spend 2023 deploying Fund II, with plans for a follow-on vehicle unlikely to begin gathering steam until late 2024.

Rob Kniaz, co-founder of London-based venture capital firm Hoxton Ventures, is in talks with potential LPs about forming a new deep tech-focused venture capital firm, according to a report by CNBC.

ChatGPT is grabbing most of the headlines around generative AI, but SineWave Ventures says the real news is about the technology that sits between artificial intelligence models and the apps that users interact with.

The fund is a follow-on to the firm's fourth venture fund that closed last year at $325m.

Fifth Wall, a venture capital firm focused on proptech and real estate decarbonization, has named Fethi Kirdar as managing director of capital formation.

Isos Capital Management is partnering with NBA star Carmelo Anthony on a new venture fund for sports, Isos7 Sports Investments.

Planet First Partners, a London growth investor that focuses on partnering with "disruptive entrepreneurs to scale tech-enabled businesses," has closed its debut fund on €450 million, surpassing its initial target of €350 million.