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The Denmark-based firm has raised €134m towards its €300m target to invest entirely in quantum technologies.

The early-stage VC’s portfolio spans everything from space-based robotics to quantum computing and cryptography research.

The sovereign fund recently committed $690m to seven venture funds as part of its effort to bolster exposure to private assets following several years of record cash inflows from oil revenues.

LPs include fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners and Aldea Ventures, as well as multi-family office Granite Capital Management and real estate investor Dominus.

The Nashville-based VC invests across the Bitcoin ecosystem and complementary technologies.

In part 24 of his venture debt series, Zack Ellison of Applied Real Intelligence breaks down the key funding structures behind venture loans and growth credit and how they shape investor control and economics.

The Alternatives Investing Center will help financial advisers navigate investment strategies within venture capital and other private asset classes, adding to other efforts to sharpen the investment firm’s focus on private markets.

Managed with Evercore, the HighVista deal drew more than 40 potential bidders and reinforces the Boston investment firm’s expanding presence in the secondary market.

The Las Vegas-based firm is leveraging its founders’ backgrounds to invest in cybersecurity, infrastructure, data and AI start-ups.

The firm is already exhibiting strong results, with one unicorn, a successful exit and five up rounds among the achievements of half of its 12 investments so far.