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Blackbird soars to new heights down under

Blackbird raised A$1bn for its fifth flagship fund from 270 investors, including Aware Super, HESTA, Hostplus, The Future Fund and Elevate NZ Venture Fund.

3 min read · 14 November 2022

EQT Ventures raises €1.1bn for companies targeting 'biggest challenges'

EQT Ventures III is focused on European and North American early-stage tech start-ups.

2 min read · 09 November 2022

Fintech-focused Quona Capital raises $332m for third fund

Quona Capital, which invests in fintech companies targeting underserved consumers and businesses mostly outside the US, has closed its third fund at $332m, beating its $250m target.

1 min read · 09 November 2022

Friday Letter: Fundraising is going to get a lot tougher

Preliminary data from placement agent Probitas Partners’ annual survey of institutional investors shows a sharp decline in interest in VC funds around the globe.

3 min read · 04 November 2022

Space data startup Wyvern gathers $7m in Uncork-led financing

Earlier this year, Wyvern collected $4.5 million in pre-seed and seed deals. The seed round was led by MaC Venture Capital.

2 min read · 03 November 2022

Freshly-funded 1Password acquires Texas-based Passage

Earlier this year, 1Password closed a $620 million Series C financing, which valued it at $6.8 billion.

2 min read · 03 November 2022

Firefox developer Mozilla rolls out $35m venture fund

Firefox developer Mozilla has unveiled a new $35 million venture capital fund, Mozilla Ventures, to focus on early-stage tech start-ups.

1 min read · 02 November 2022

X-ray manufacturer KA Imaging snags financing, In-Q-Tel invests

The backers included In-Q-Tel and INOVAIT, the latter through the Canadian government's Strategic Innovation Fund.

1 min read · 02 November 2022

BDC rolls out second climate tech fund, capitalizes it at C$400m

BDC launched its Cleantech Practice's C$600 million Fund I in 2018.

1 min read · 02 November 2022

Tracing the VCJ 50

Like the creature in the 1958 science fiction movie The Blob, the VCJ 50 just keeps expanding, consuming ever larger quantities of institutional capital.

3 min read · 01 November 2022

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