Tiger Global, which has roared through the fundraising market for the past 10 years, was only able to muster a meow with its latest fund.
Matter Venture Partners, a new firm started by two Kleiner Perkins vets, has closed on $300m for its debut, or $100m more than planned.
The San Francisco-based firm has closed on $90m for Superset Capital II, which had a target of $100m.
The newly named partner sees lots of opportunity to invest between the foundational model and app layer of the AI stack.
Monarch Collective co-founder Jasmine Robinson says that growing viewership trends, NIL and interest from institutional investors led to the firm’s close on $100m for its debut fund.
LPs include “senior executives at BlackRock, Cooley, Google, senior healthcare and finance executives and prominent family office groups in the California area,” the firm says.
Jada Fund of Funds, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, is investing $266m in the latest venture debt fund from Partners for Growth.
8VC, the $6bn venture firm co-founded by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, has named veteran tech executive Karen White as executive partner.
Strong LP interest in cybersecurity helped Ballistic Ventures surpass the target for its sophomore fund in a challenging fundraising market.
Tretikov was promoted to deputy CTO of Microsoft in 2020 after serving as corporate VP for AI, Perception & Mixed Reality for the company.