Tagged: fundraising

June 22, 2025 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The private debt market kicked off 2025 with a robust performance, as detailed in Private Debt Investor’s Q1 2025 Fundraising Report. Despite lingering macroeconomic uncertainties and geopolitical tensions, the asset class demonstrated resilience, with fundraising activity reflecting strong investor confidence and strategic adaptations by fund… Read More

June 21, 2025 @ 1:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the first quarter of 2025, real assets funds demonstrated remarkable strength, with 18 funds raising an impressive $52 billion. This, according to a report from PitchBook. The report noted that this figure represents roughly half of the total capital raised by real assets funds… Read More

June 15, 2025 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has unveiled a bold strategy to significantly expand its presence in private markets, targeting $400 billion in fundraising by 2030. This plan, announced during the firm’s recent investor day, reflects BlackRock’s intent to capitalize on the growth of alternative investments, including private… Read More

June 3, 2025 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The May 2025 Global Markets Snapshot, released by PitchBook, offers a comprehensive overview of the past month’s trends across equity, debt, and commodities markets, while also delving into private market activity. As global financial markets continue to grapple with volatility driven by economic uncertainties, geopolitical… Read More

May 13, 2025 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Engage for Good, a company empowering corporate and nonprofit professionals to create mutually beneficial social impact partnerships, and Adyen, a financial technology platform, today released the 2025 Charity Checkout Champions Report, which highlights point-of-sale (POS) fundraising among corporations and nonprofits. This year’s report examines 92… Read More

May 3, 2025 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In its Global Markets Snapshot, PitchBook has examined the private and public market landscape, offering insights for investors navigating a complex economic environment. The report highlights key trends in venture capital (VC), private equity (PE), and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), while addressing the impact of… Read More

April 21, 2025 @ 1:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The private market regulatory environment is evolving, presenting challenges and opportunities for venture capital fund managers. As compliance obligations become more complex, even experienced professionals struggle to catch up with the latest developments. Carta, a platform for equity management and fund administration, has responded to… Read More

March 3, 2025 @ 8:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Monorail, a financial App that allows people to invest in companies that align with their American values, has reportedly secured $60,298 via Republic (at the time of writing). So far, the company has raised 4% of its $1.23M max goal from 43 investors. According to the… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 8:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Fintech firm Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) recently revealed that it is launching an emergency fundraising campaign for businesses on the platform in order to enable their customers to fundraise for those affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles with Americares. For this particular campaign, businesses… Read More

November 20, 2024 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bain Capital announced it completed fundraising for its latest Global Special Situations Fund, bringing the amount raised for its second vintage of funds to a total of $9 billion. This capital base reportedly includes Global Special Situations Fund II, which received $5.7 billion in total… Read More

August 22, 2024 @ 9:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team behind Story Protocol is announcing $140M in total fundraising to build Story, which is described as the world’s IP blockchain. As explained by the Story Protocol developers, Intellectual property (IP) is one of the world’s biggest asset classes. Training data, AI models, memes,… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The world of SaaS startup fundraising is unique, according to an extensive update from Capchase. It’s fast-paced, data-heavy, and can be “unpredictable at times,” Capchase notes in a blog post. As explained by Capchase, today’s funding landscape “has more to offer founders than ever before.”… Read More

May 13, 2024 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has released their State of Private Markets: Q1 2024 report. Carta notes that the venture capital fundraising market “remained slow in Q1 2024, but valuations held steady or climbed at almost every stage.” Carta also mentions that the startup fundraising market “got off to… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Monzo is reportedly expanding its fundraising to £500 million as part of a round which includes capital from Hedosophia. This, according to an update from Sky News. Sources revealed on Sunday that Monzo might confirm as soon as this week that Hedosophia and… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DynamEat explains that it helps restaurants boost their profit by applying dynamic pricing and smart menu strategies. DynamEat has so far raised 62% (€169,481 from 38 investors) of its fundraising €270,005 target with 27 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs…. Read More

February 3, 2024 @ 10:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaldi App, whose developers are on a mission is to transform the savings habits of Gen Z & Millennials by getting them to save earlier & better, has raised £472,875 from 140 investors at the time of writing with 25 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding… Read More

January 8, 2024 @ 7:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bracket Labs completed a $2 million pre-seed fundraise round to support the launch of “Passage,” a volatility trading product available on the project’s BracketX trading platform. The debut of the range-bound product “makes trading long and short volatility entirely on-chain easy for traders of all… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 11:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Preqin, the global firm focused on alternative assets data, tools, and insights, published its Preqin Global Report 2024: Real Estate. The report shows that high interest rates will “continue to deter real estate fundraising and dealmaking in 2024, while also outlining a shift towards opportunistic… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Horiz.io, an SaaS platform aiming to simplify real estate investment for property search, yield calculation & rental management, has secured over €200,000 from more than 210 investors at the time of writing via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Crowdcube with currently less than two… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

INTELLITHING, which aims to develop customized applications of Generative AI With no code, has raised 132% (£265,325) of its £200,000 target from 116 investors (at the time of writing) via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs with 12 days left in the offering. Located… Read More