Women In Private Funds

Find out which women make up this year’s Women of Influence list.

Tenzin Seldon explains how she convinced LPs like Beneficient, Pivotal Foundation and the Pritzker family to back a first-time climate fund from a solo GP.

LPs committing to Enable Ventures’ $50.3m fund include UnitedHealth Group, Liberty Mutual Investments, Ford Foundation, Ally Bank, Ascension and Weingart Foundation.

Parul Singh is targeting the gap between what AI agents can do and how much developers trust them to do it unsupervised.

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 New York-based firm received commitments from ZOMA Capital, GCM Grosvenor, MassMutual, Sorenson Impact Advisory and Pivotal Ventures.

Six IPOs for portfolio companies in the last eight years, steady distributions and a healthy re-up rate helped the product-led VC firm expand its institutional LP base.

Tell us who you think should be included on our sixth annual list of Women of Influence in Private Markets, which celebrates the achievements of women working across the alternatives ecosystem.

With the Tokyo-based financial group as an anchor investor, Across plans to invest in more than 20 micro VCs focused on AI, fintech and blockchain, climate and health tech.

New LPs include Dutch, Norwegian and Danish impact investment firms, venture investors and individual venture capitalists.