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LPs committing to the new ocean-focused fund include Finnish family owned investment company Aboa Advest, US multifamily office Adamo Capital and Swiss investment holding company ARGOng Investment AG.

A growing number of VC-backed companies are selling to private equity, even though PE firms generally don’t pay as much as strategic buyers.

'While performance was strong this year, we’ve been underweight to venture and growth compared to our peers,' says Michael McGirr, the pension’s director of private equity

The climate investor coalition relied on family offices to get the first fund over the line, but will be 'very much more focused' on institutional investors for Fund II, says so-founder Stan Miranda

The Canadian VC's sophomore fund, which is targeting $125m, held a first close on $58m, with support from Ceniarth, Equality Fund, KfW, Skoll Foundation and Wire Group.

The climate investment coalition raises $133m and adds a UK-based family office as a new member.

Investors are eager to make money on aging venture assets, putting billions to work in three new venture secondaries funds.

CIO Michael Trotsky reports the $130bn system is looking to rectify historic access issues to top GPs and an underweighted position to AI, space and defense sectors.

The firm's seventh flagship is about twice the size of its previous effort and took half as long to raise.

Ryan Moore has closed on $78.5m for Revenant Ventures' debut fund, a regulatory filing shows.