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The fund’s investors include venture funds-of-funds, family offices, entrepreneurs and creators.

Fund III's limited partners include institutions, family offices and more than a dozen founders.

The fund will back European startups in the B2B software, fintech and health sectors.

Pollination is targeting $6bn for a series of funds focused on natural carbon sequestration in a joint venture with HSBC Asset Management.

I find comfort in knowing that there are people launching new funds to find solutions to problems that affect all of humanity – people like Rosie Wardle, co-founder of Synthesis Capital, a newly launched food technology investor.

Northern Gritstone, chaired by former Goldman Sachs AM chairman Jim O’Neill, aspires to create jobs and wealth in England’s underfunded North with SDG-aligned seed investments.

The UK-based firm, which predicts an uptick in private markets tech valuations, has launched a new vehicle dedicated to investing in the world’s top-performing venture firms.

The UK government-backed investor has committed to a growth-equity fund.

British Patient Capital aims to accelerate investment into UK venture capital and encourage more institutional buyers to join in, writes Nick Reeve.

More than half of investment teams in UK and continental Europe were all-white last year and 12% featured no women, according to analysis by the two organizations.