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The San Francisco-based firm has closed on $90m for Superset Capital II, which had a target of $100m.
Allen Waldrop, director of private equity at Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Nexus Summit
“There's a lot of attention on DPI and… maybe the talk about it is driving managers to perhaps do things that probably aren't optimal from a long-term return perspective, but helpful in the short term to their LPs who want capital back,” says Allen Waldrop, PE director for Alaska Permanent Fund.
CalSTRS Christopher Ailman
The CIO of the second-largest pension in the US offered his thoughts at NEXUS 2024 on the benefits and harm that generative artificial intelligence could do to investment teams.
Photo of Grace Ge, partner, Amplify Partners.
The newly named partner sees lots of opportunity to invest between the foundational model and app layer of the AI stack.
Jasmine Robinson of Monarch Collective and Lawrence Aragon of Venture Capital Journal at NEXUS 2024 in Orlando
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.
Photo of Anton Orlich, Managing Investment Director, Private Equity, CalPERS.
CalPERS committed a combined $2.1 billion to 13 growth equity and VC funds in the third quarter of 2023, a new report shows.
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.
To boost its private equity allocation from 13 percent to 17 percent, CalPERS plans to invest more heavily in venture capital and growth funds.
Skyline in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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.
Photo of Karen White, Executive Partner, 8VC.
8VC, the $6bn venture firm co-founded by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, has named veteran tech executive Karen White as executive partner.
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