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Continuation funds aren’t the only strategy firms are using to generate liquidity for LPs. Others include strip sales, preferred equity deals and tender offers.

The world’s 50 largest venture capital fundraisers raised more than $204bn, up 9% from our previous ranking.

This is at least the second time IDG has tapped the secondaries market for a CV deal, having previously completed a GP-led five years ago.

In part 22 of his series on venture debt, Zack Ellison from Applied Real Intelligence identifies how investors can structure convertible notes to mitigate downside risk, avoid liquidity traps and better align incentives.

More venture firms are following the lead of buyout firms by creating continuation funds to provide liquidity to LPs in older funds. Here are the pluses and minuses for GPs and LPs considering CVs.

Investors seem to be directing more capital to support existing portfolio companies instead of pursuing new investments, while earlier timing for mega-deals suggests a push to accelerate development to beat competitors.

The new venture manager is raising both an equity and debt fund, which it says gives it ‘proprietary deal intelligence.’

Sharon Vosmek explains Astia Fund's 'sift' strategy, which she says has led to a significantly lower failure rate for start-ups the fund chooses to back.

The target is between $40 million to $60 million.

The fundraising increased Project A’s total assets under management to €1.2 billion.