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In part 17 of his series on venture debt, Zack Ellison from Applied Real Intelligence examines the key areas of legal diligence in venture debt and growth credit transactions.

LPs include Renault Group, BNP Paribas Group, Bpifrance, European Investment Fund, Edenred, PSA Ventures, ComfortDelGro, Capricorn and Candriam.

Pechoucek will help the New York firm invest the $1.1bn it raised last year for Evolution Technology Fund III.

Some VCs believe deals between small and midsized companies will proceed smoothly but that large-scale M&A transactions will continue to be hampered by unclear anti-trust treatment in certain concentrated markets.

The Los Angeles-based firm is currently marketing its sixth fund, which is targeting $85 million.

Madrona, a tech-focused venture capital firm, has raised $770 million across two funds, Madrona Fund X and Acceleration Fund IV.

LPs for the early-stage life sciences fund, which is targeting $350m, include the Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System.

The fund is backed by 'prominent Saudi institutional investors,' public investment fund Jada Fund of Funds, Saudi Venture Capital and Sanabil Investments.

Kelleher previously served as chief of investments at the National Gallery of Art, where she managed its $1.4bn endowment portfolio.

The global VC firm analyzed the relationship between ESG outperformance and VC funding success within its portfolio.