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10D, an Israeli tech investor, has raised $245m across its second early-stage fund and first opportunity fund.

CRH Ventures will back construction and climate technology companies, operating across the construction value chain.

The fund will invest in high-tech and deep-tech companies in the Netherlands, Germany and the Nordics.

Linse Capital, founded by former Kleiner Perkins partner Michael Linse, has raised $700m in fresh capital. About $563m of the total will go to Linse Capital Fund I, which will invest in a 'select handful of new companies per year, investing between $100m and $400m in each business over time.'

Amazon Catalytic Capital, the e-commerce giant’s new $150m fund of funds, has already backed four funds. Here’s what it’s looking for.

Fundraising will get harder for VC funds because they compete with other private funds for investors’ PE allocations – and those allocations may get trimmed as fixed income investments become more attractive.

Fifth Wall has closed on $866m for its Real Estate Technology Fund III, which the New York firm says is the largest proptech fund raised to date.

Union Square Ventures, which has invested in 17 climate-related companies in the past two years, has closed on $200m for its second climate fund to keep the dealmaking momentum going.

New Atomico report finds 8 in 10 European entrepreneurs say fundraising is harder this year. However, 45% say they are more confident in Europe’s ability to build global tech leaders than they were 12 months ago.

A new accelerator program from CEMEX Ventures is the latest in a growing number of projects rolled out by corporate venture funds in recent years to provide established industrial players with an inside track on evolving technologies.