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- Raises & Launches
AGC Belvedir I files Form D with $0 sold
The Oct. 22 SEC filing lists the fund as venture capital and gives no offering amount.
- Private Equity
PEI 300 firms raised $3.55 trillion, up almost 8%
Top 10 managers raised $854.6 billion, a quarter of the total.
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- Natural Resources
Hudbay, Mitsubishi approve $2.1B Copper World mine
The build costs 59% more than the 2023 estimate; Hudbay's share is about $500 million, with first installment deferred to 2028.
- Private Equity
Birmingham Advisors launches with 15 partners, 60 advisors
The Chicago firm, led by Jeff Cox and Dennis Olis, sells operating and due diligence work by the day, month or longer.
- Venture Capital
Atreides leads Legora's $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation
Legal-AI developer Legora's valuation rose from $5.6 billion in April, and it will use the round to expand across North America.
- Venture Capital
Blacksmith raises $66M Series C led by Sequoia at $1B
The valuation is nearly twice the $550 million Blacksmith carried in its Series B two months earlier, TechCrunch reported.
- Real Estate
Josef Stanzl buys 47-unit Capitol Hill apartments for $20.4M
Colliers brokered the off-market sale; the per-unit price is about $434,000.
- Manager Selection
Nobel laureate Hall co-wrote the user cost of capital framework
The 2026 economics prize went to Hall and Michael Woodford; the Tax Foundation ties Hall's earlier work to how taxes change investment hurdles.
- Manager Selection
JP3E buys remaining 39% of Demora Foundation
The OTC-quoted parent moves from 61% to 100% of the blockchain unit backing its plan to link 500 Korean SMEs to U.S. capital markets.
- Evergreen & Interval Funds
Deutsche Bank names Cynthia Lai head of EM managed investments
Lai reports to Vivienne Chia and her team includes Michael Ostro, head of EM alternatives, Private Banker International reports.
- Infrastructure
Hitachi Energy, Ansaldo sign non-binding data center power MoU
The memorandum pairs Ansaldo's gas turbines with Hitachi Energy's grid integration for 50Hz and 60Hz markets, with no capacity or timetable attached.
- Infrastructure
NTT and Docomo to pilot AI load-shifting to absorb more renewables
The joint demonstration, reported Oct. 21, moves communications workloads between base stations and manages distributed solar and battery storage.
- Hedge Funds & Liquid Alts
Tidan Capital adds Luca Moro as senior portfolio strategist
Moro was CIO of the SpesX Energy Transition UCITS Fund at FIEE SGR in Rome, HedgeNordic reported.
- Infrastructure
Nvidia says DSX POD cuts deployment to 14 days
Seventeen partners are due to deliver the modular units worldwide in early 2027, paired with dry coolers rather than evaporative cooling.
- Hedge Funds & Liquid Alts
Top 100 hedge funds trail wider industry in first half
Canoe Intelligence puts the cohort at about $3.2 trillion and finds long/short equity ahead of smaller peers while relative value and arbitrage lag.
- Evergreen & Interval Funds
Blue Owl Cayman fund reports $916.3M in sales
The Oct. 21 Form D dates the first sale to July 1, 2022; related persons include Blue Owl Alternative Credit Advisors.
- Private Equity
Batch & Box private equity fund sold $3.3 million
Oct. 21 Form D names three related persons and records an Oct. 7 first sale
- Private Equity
Navatar adds two-way Claude links to PE deal records
The Oct. 21 release lets deal teams write research into Navatar records and pull updated deal data back into Claude.
- Insurance-Linked & Specialty
More than 20 states pass litigation funding disclosure laws
The Insurance Information Institute brief says a uniform disclosure request may be considered at the committee's Oct. 21 meeting.
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- Real Estate
Fairstead, BRP complete $636M NYCHA rehab
Urbane and Local Development Corporation of East New York joined the project covering 87 buildings and nearly 3,000 residents.
- Real Estate
Marcus & Millichap brokers $8.5M sale of 29-unit Anaheim building
The all-cash deal closed in 26-day escrow and is the first closing in a family portfolio being repositioned into Orange County apartments.
- Private Credit & BDCs
Apollo Debt Solutions BDC caps redemptions as NAV falls to $13.5B
Third-quarter tender requests equaled 14.7% of shares against a 5% repurchase; leverage rose to 0.96x from 0.73x in March.
- Real Estate
Hiffman National manages 104 million square feet
Growth came from existing clients in new markets, including a 1.8 million-square-foot first Arizona industrial assignment.
- Real Estate
Kingsley Orchard sells 120 Somerville units for $39 million
Connect CRE reports the Davis Square portfolio spans three brick buildings; no buyer was named.
- Venture Capital
Inspired Capital closes fourth venture fund at $450 million
The firm will keep backing about 10 companies a year from napkin stage to Series A, with checks of $1 million to $15 million.
- Private Equity
59% of family offices plan to increase private equity exposure
Bank of America's 2026 study finds 51% call private equity a top wealth-creation opportunity, and 27.2% of the alternatives book is already allocated to it.
- Insurance-Linked & Specialty
New cat bond spreads fall to 2.4 times modeled loss
Expected loss rose even as spreads fell, shifting due diligence to the models behind each bond.
- Natural Resources
Apogee to buy five Knife Lake claims; Eagle Plains keeps 2.5% royalty
Closing would lift Apogee's Knife Lake position to 59 claims covering about 37,220 hectares, 54 of them optioned from Trident.
- Venture Capital
Four AI companies raised $188B in Q1 2026, 65% of global VC
Non-AI startups took 20% of global venture funding while deal count fell 30%, Crunchbase data show.
- Infrastructure
Google to fund Arkansas grid and storage for 600MW data center
A 440MW solar PPA follows Arkansas regulators' rejection of Entergy's bid to buy the plant's output.
- Private Credit & BDCs
German insurers' private credit hits 9.3% of invested assets
Moody's says the end-2024 figure is above the 7.5% European average and sees insurers' credit strength holding steady.
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- Private Equity
New Private Equity takes minority stake in ONE group solutions
The Luxembourg provider of third-party fund management and governance services, with more than 200 clients, did not disclose terms; CEO Steve Bernat stays.
- Digital Assets
CME Group plans bitcoin cash, uniswap futures
CoinDesk reported a Monday start pending review; contract size, fees, margin and regulator are not given.
- Private Equity
Goldman and Evercore pitch evergreen funds to buyout firms
Bankers at five firms are pitching buyout shops on vehicles with 10- to 15-year lives, but exit mechanics remain open.
- Private Equity
CGF2026's CR l Nucleus Ventures Sep 20 series sells $182,000
An Oct. 19 Form D lists an Oct. 16 first sale and names LLC The Flax Group as a related person.
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- Infrastructure
Microsoft engineer says power and cooling now bind AI data centers
Idle accelerators become stranded capital unless memory, networking, power and cooling are co-designed, the essay says.
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- Digital Assets
Citrini publishes 79-page case for tokenized assets
CoinDesk's Oct. 17 column says assets can move between apps and serve as collateral; its summary names no custodian or terms.
- Private Credit & BDCs
Moelis-linked Steele Creek BDC to liquidate after 66.5% vote
Directors chose a wind-down over an interval fund conversion, citing sub-scale size and BDC reporting costs.
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- Private Credit & BDCs
Fitch finds 2.7% non-accruals in eight-BDC review, flags 2027 pressure
Fitch also said high redemptions and slower fundraising at non-traded BDCs could curb lending and ease competition.
- Private Credit & BDCs
True launches private credit hiring practice led by Rick Bank
The recruitment firm will place CEOs, CFOs, COOs and board members at credit managers, with TrueBridge supplying interim leaders.