The $60bn fund and Roadrunner Venture Studios are pairing up with America’s Frontier Fund, Crosslink Capital, Khosla Ventures and others to build a robust VC ecosystem rooted in New Mexico.
The $82bn Southern California pension’s staff are expressing confidence in the direction of the portfolio despite relinquishing a spot as a top performer from early PE program.
Planeteer Capital closed its debut fund with anchor investments from an Ivy League university endowment and Mike Schroepfer, former CTO of Meta and a partner at Gigascale Capital, after pitching more than 400 potential LPs.
Staff and consultants of the $5bn Silicon Valley pension are bullish about opportunities in a depressed VC marketplace.
Investors in Zeal's $82m Fund II include Capricorn Investment Group, Citi Impact Fund, Hampton University, M&T Bank, MassMutual, Spelman College, Wells Fargo and Zaffre Investments.
Finding itself at the more conservative end of LP exposure to PE in recent years, one of the nation’s largest sovereign wealth funds is exploring an expanded role for private assets.
'We decided to actively go find partners in Canada and Europe to be long-term partners,' managing partner John Tough tells Venture Capital Journal.
LPs in Longview’s North America University Innovations Fund include UK-based IP Group plc, institutional investors, large multi-family offices and prominent single-family offices.
Investors’ expectations around these hot-button issues have only risen over the past year.
Firm with $7.3bn raised in VC program since first fund in 1990 anticipating return of IPOs and M&As later this year or next, with uptick of CVs in the meantime.