Lawrence Aragon

Nordic investor Butterfly Ventures has raised €47 million toward a target fund size of €100 million, with first-close investors including Saminvest and Tesi.

Bessemer raised $2.475bn for early-stage tech fund Bessemer Venture Partners XI and $825m for growth fund Century II in February 2021.

Kotak Investment Advisors Ltd, the largest homegrown alternatives player in India, plans to raise a venture capital fund and a fund of funds.

A.R.I Venture Debt Opportunities Fund is in the market just as founder Zack Ellison is seeing a surge of interest from potential borrowers and investors desperate for returns in a market downturn.

Venture growth firm Questa Capital has set out to raise $400m for its third fund in the midst of a challenging fundraising environment.

Amplify Partners, an early stage investor based in Menlo Park, raised $400 million for its fifth early-stage fund and $300 million for a fund to support existing portfolio companies.

Healthcare investor Third Rock Ventures has closed on just over $1.1 billion from 65 investors for its sixth fund, Third Rock Ventures VI, according to a regulatory filing.

Several recent events demonstrate that investors are looking for hard evidence from GPs making ESG claims.

Seae Ventures, founded by the former leaders of a Blue Cross corporate venture fund, announced it has raised an inaugural fund of $107m to support diverse-led companies.

The SEC’s proposals to require a kind of 'truth in advertising' around ESG funds are a good first step.