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1. Innovation Opportunities II, L.P
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is raising Innovation Opportunities II, L.P., a late-stage venture vehicle targeting high-growth software and digital services companies where the firm's platform resources and network can accelerate market leadership. The fund continues a16z's conviction in transformative technology themes, providing capital to category-defining businesses at critical inflection points. With the firm's track record of backing generational technology companies, Innovation Opportunities II is well suited to attract both institutional and wealth-channel LPs seeking late-stage venture exposure.
2. Mother Fund LLC
Beth Kurteson, former COO at Winklevoss Capital and Chief of Staff at Gemini, has launched The Mother Fund, her inaugural pre-seed and seed vehicle investing in technology-enabled and consumer-oriented companies across North America, both businesses building for the motherhood category and ventures founded by mothers across every industry. Kurteson's thesis is that founders who have navigated motherhood are uniquely positioned to solve large, overlooked problems, bringing an operator's precision and an investor's eye for cultural inflection points to an undercapitalized corner of the market.
3. Torch Key Fund I, LP
Torch Key Asset Management (TKAM), the newly launched middle-market private equity firm founded by Kimberly Reed, Jack Rosenberg, and Jennifer Kwon Chou, all formerly of One Rock Capital Partners, is raising its inaugural Torch Key Fund I, LP, targeting control buyouts of complex, transitional, and carve-out situations across fragmented sectors including food and beverage and industrial products and services. The fund pursues transactions where complexity obscures value and where hands-on operational engagement can drive durable growth, backed by anchor capital from GCM Grosvenor's Elevate Fund. With the founding team having deployed $1.6 billion in equity at prior firms, TKAM offers LPs a differentiated emerging manager with institutional-grade discipline and a highly collaborative operating model.
4. All Aboard Fund I
All Aboard is raising Fund I, L.P., a venture capital fund providing growth capital to later-stage climate and energy transition companies across North America, targeting the critical financing gap between early-stage venture and large-scale project finance. The fund focuses on businesses advancing clean energy, decarbonization, and infrastructure innovation that have demonstrated commercial viability and are ready to scale. With the energy transition requiring trillions in investment over the coming decades, All Aboard looks to benefit from sustained policy tailwinds and accelerating corporate demand for clean solutions.
5. GEP XII Investors, LLC
Greystar Investment Group is raising GEP XII Investors LLC, the latest iteration of its flagship Greystar Equity Partners series, which has raised over $6.5 billion since 2011, targeting value-add and opportunistic rental housing and residential real estate assets. The fund leverages Greystar's vertically integrated platform, spanning property management, development, and asset management across more than 893,000 units globally, to drive operating efficiencies and capital improvements at the asset level. With structural undersupply in rental housing persisting across key markets, GEP XII offers LPs a compelling entry point into residential real estate through one of the sector’s most experienced operators.
6. Lincoln Logistics Fund II, LP
Lincoln Property Company, one of the largest private real estate firms in the U.S. with over 60 years of development experience, is raising Lincoln Logistics Fund II, LP, a closed-end vehicle targeting U.S. industrial and logistics assets through development and value-add strategies, with $150 million raised to date. The fund leverages Lincoln's vertically integrated platform spanning development, leasing, and asset management to execute across the full lifecycle of industrial assets. With e-commerce and supply chain reconfiguration continuing to drive structural demand for high-quality logistics facilities, Fund II offers LPs direct exposure to one of real estate's most resilient and supply-constrained property types.
7. TPG Real Estate Partners V
TPG is raising Real Estate Partners V, its latest opportunistic real estate fund targeting thematic investments in property-rich platforms and portfolios across North America and Europe. The fund continues TPG's approach of pursuing complexity-driven transactions in dislocated or transitional real estate assets where active asset management and repositioning can unlock embedded value. Against a backdrop of capital markets stress and widespread repricing across commercial real estate, REPE V enters the market at a favorable vintage with compelling risk-adjusted return potential.
8. EQT Infrastructure VII
EQT is marketing Infrastructure VII, the latest iteration of its flagship global infrastructure series, targeting high-quality assets with significant growth potential across energy transition, digital infrastructure, and sustainable transport. The fund maintains EQT's focus on assets underpinned by long-term structural trends and contracted cash flows, offering LPs inflation-resilient returns with meaningful downside protection. As the global infrastructure investment gap widens and the energy transition accelerates, Infrastructure VII looks to deploy at scale across both developed and select emerging markets.
9. Basis Set Ventures IV, L.P.
Basis Set Ventures is raising Fund IV, L.P., an early-stage venture fund targeting pre-seed through Series A investments in AI-native startups across four core themes: scalable infrastructure, intelligent collaboration, automated workflows, and autonomous machines. The fund continues Basis Set's conviction that artificial intelligence represents a generational productivity shift, with a portfolio construction approach emphasizing deep founder support and concentrated sector expertise. Fund IV arrives at a moment of peak commercial adoption for enterprise AI, standing to benefit from accelerating deployment across industries and a maturing startup ecosystem built around AI-first architecture.
10. Singapore Central Private Real Estate Fund
Hongkong Land is launching the Singapore Central Private Real Estate Fund, its inaugural private real estate vehicle, with an expected launch AUM of over S$8 billion focused exclusively on prime commercial property assets in Singapore's central business district. The fund reflects Hongkong Land's pivot toward a capital-light model, channeling third-party institutional capital into its core Singapore portfolio while retaining asset management control. SCPREF offers LPs access to a concentrated portfolio of commercial assets in one of Asia's most liquid and transparent real estate markets.
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