Atreides Management

Happy Friday! The week comes to a close with two VC rounds, an European fund launch, and a U.S. real estate fund close. Plus, PE dealmaking and a credit securitization.

Starlight Investments closed its second U.K. build-to-rent fund, while an AI inference chipmaker pulled in a nine-figure Series C as investors continue betting on next-generation compute. Blackstone and a Macquarie-led consortium announced major acquisitions, and credit managers were also active, ...

The Aggregator is back from the long weekend with a packed slate: Apogem and TrueBridge each topped $500 million on fresh fund closes, a chipmaker and a cybersecurity company drew a combined $520 million in VC backing, and ICG and ...

A satellite manufacturer gearing up for national security programs raised and a fabless chipmaker serving hyperscale and AI data centers raised a total of $800 million from VC players and major firms including T. Rowe Price. Other notable transactions today ...

An AI infrastructure consortium completed its acquisition of Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management today, while a California battery technology developer raised $300 mililon from some marquee VC players. AW also tracked PE and credit deals in the U.S. ...

Two AI companies just banked more than $2 billion between them, with impressive investor rosters. Tailwater closed a bigger sequel fund, Jadian doubled down on a fast-growing industrial platform, and Apax’s PE arm backed a supply chain platform’s next stage ...

Alternatives Watch tracked about $2.3 billion in private market deals across credit, equity, infrastructure and real estate in the week ending March 10.

Alternatives Watch tracked about $1 billion in private market deals across credit, equity, infrastructure and real estate in the week ending Feb. 24.

The following is a compilation of the private market deal activity for the week ending Aug. 19. Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $9.5 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period. Private equity: $8.6 billion ...

Joe Dowling, the former CEO of Brown University’s Investment Office, has joined Blackstone as global co-head of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management alongside John McCormick.   Dowling, who left Brown CEO post in mid-2020, will oversee BAAM’s investment activities going forward ...