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The former angel group raised its oversubscribed debut seed fund to complement its existing growth syndicates.

The $60bn fund and Roadrunner Venture Studios are pairing up with America’s Frontier Fund, Crosslink Capital, Khosla Ventures and others to build a robust VC ecosystem rooted in New Mexico.

VCs and corporate backers own shares currently worth nearly $10bn for VC-backed companies that have gone public this year – minus the holdings for outliers Circle and CoreWeave, which are valued at $35bn.

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.

The firm closed on $50 million to back early-stage companies and connect them with its corporate network.

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.

Pan Demetriou and Orr Vinegold aim to turn their accelerator into a sort of Y Combinator for UK impact brands.

'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.

LPs in Zeal Capital's Fund II include Citi Impact Fund, M&T Bank, MassMutual, Wells Fargo, Zaffre Investments and Spelman College, as well as VCs Scott Sandell and Jason Green.