New investment funds focused on Europe

We keep track of the new fund announcements, alongside an archive you can find below. We publish them every week- and send them to our subscribers via email. You can subscribe from here.

March, 2026

Week 12

Updates to be sent on March 16

Week 11

🇪🇸 Vecta made a closing for a first fund at €260 million for buying medium-sized and large companies in Spain with EBITDA between €4 million and €12 million.

🇪🇸 Aleos Capital raised €150 million in a first closing for a debut lower mid-market fund specializing in biosciences.

🇱🇹 Firstpick closed $9 million in commitments for their second fund targeting 25 million, dedicated to overlooked early-stage from the Baltic region.

Also notable

🇪🇸 Qualitas Funds announced kicking off a €100 million secondary fund focused on the European lower mid-market.

🇨🇭 Infinitas Capital announced the formation of a new Swedish investment platform to seek a listing on Nasdaq Stockholm this year – ICYMI, Infinitas is a Swiss single-family office led by Robin Lauber.

🇺🇸 Techstars closed its startup accelerator program in Turin, Italy.

Week 10

🇬🇧 Seraphim Space announced closings for a $100 million fund focused on spacetech.

🇧🇪 Syndicate One closed €22 million in commitments for a second fund dedicated to Belgian early stage startups.

Also notable

🇳🇴 Verdane acquired London-based VC firm Augmentum Fintech for £185.7 million at a 30% discount to net asset value.

the Brits are listed on LSE – deal still needs the approval of 75% of shareholder votes at a general meeting yet to be called
if it goes through, both Augmentum’s CEO and COO will join Verdane on full time basis.

🇩🇰 True Collective is a new investment fund launched by Stefan Rosenlund in Denmark and targeting to raise $30 million for local AI B2B startups.

🇪🇸 Spanish family-owned financial group Corporación Financiera Azuaga launched Anta Asset Management, a €60 million venture fund to invest in small and medium-sized Spanish companies in the Defense and Space sectors.

Week 9

🇫🇷 Capza raised €1.4 billion for a private credit fund focused on European small and mid-cap companies.

🇫🇷 Tikehau Capital closed commitments of $1 billion for their second private debt secondaries fund.

🇳🇴 Verdane is in talks to raise a €600 million multi-asset continuation fund.

🇩🇰 Polaris Private Equity made a first €400 million close for a sixth fund dedicated to Nordic mid-market.

🇫🇷 Quantonation closed a €220 million early-stage fund, its second since 2018.

🇩🇪 Moonfare launched a second buyout fund closed at $83 million, on top of its investment platform acting as a primary aggregator for new PE fund launches.

ICYMI, Moonfare is backed by Insight Ventures, which led $125M series C back in 2021.

🇫🇷 OSS Ventures made a €40 million first close for a fund targeting €75 million and designed to invest follow-up money into their incubation output.

Also notable

🇩🇪 Tenet unveiled their investment fund from Germany, operated by Alexander Maly, Martin Janicki, Sahil Patwa, and Simon Lohmann and looking to build a AI Roll-ups business.

🇬🇧 Miguel Agustín Limón de Alba and Darshan Chohan announced Castelnau Capital, an investment vehicle looking to acquire British SMEs as an alternative exit to PE and trade buyers.

🇪🇺 A European bunch of life sciences VC companies launched a coalition whose aim is to lobby the EU for regulatory simplification and better local capital markets – the initiative is chaired by Cedric Moreau.

Week 8

🇪🇪 Baltic Innovation Fund announced a new €225 million fund, its third, a fund of funds targeting the Baltic region.

🇫🇷 Eurazeo announced a new fund with closings worth €175 million – this one focused on European maritime SMBs.

🇫🇷 Elaia made a first €120 million close for their fifth digital fund focused on deep tech European startups from pre-seed to series B.

🇩🇪 Lucid Capital announced closings for a €36 million debut fund

founded by three guys formerly with Flash Ventures aka Rocket Internet’s startup incubator.

Also notable

🇮🇪 Max Doyle announced launching Freight Ventures, an early-stage VC fund based in Dublin, investing in technologies across the maritime, logistics and supply chain – similar to Eurazeo above.

🇫🇷 Station F launched a program for AI startups which provides $1 million equity-free in compute credits to startups sourced only via its members recommendations.

Week 7

🇪🇸 Mundi made a first close at €750 million for Kembara, a pan-European growth fund with a target size of €1 billion focused on deeptech and climate.

Series B/C, 20 companies, €15M-€40M, with follow-on capacity up to €100M
led from Madrid by Javier Santiso, who co-founded Mundi eleven years ago
one of the larger ones in Europe, joining the likes of Cathay (did 1B for AI) or Eurazeo (760M generalist), both closed last year.

🇫🇷 Slate VC made a first close of €132 million for its first-time fund dedicated to climate tech.

founded in France in 2023 by Renaud Visage, alongside Clément Buyse, Chloé Giard and Sébastien Léger.

🇫🇷 Margin Ventures made public their effort for raising a €50 million fund to invest pre-seed to Series A tickets in France.

founded by Mehdi Belkahla (ex-Citizen Capital) and Anas Jaballah (ex-EDF) in 2025.

🇩🇪 Lineage Fund announced a final €25 million close for an European search fund.

that’s a PE&VC hybrid fund aiming to become the CEO of the acquired business, managing it directly with support from investor mentors.
founded by a German who’s previously worked for Cherry Ventures in Berlin for more than seven years.

Also notable

🇩🇪 Enrico Mellis launched Animal Syndication Company, an angel syndicate for early-stage ventures in Berlin – Enrico also works as venture partner for Lakestar.

Week 6

🇮🇹 Ambienta raised more than €500 million for a credit opportunities fund dedicated to environmental sustainability mid-market in Europe.

🇫🇷 LBP AM made a €500 million final close for a debt climate impact fund targeting low-carbon or decarbonising infrastructure that contributes to climate change mitigation – the primary objective of the EU taxonomy.

🇫🇷 Daphni made a final €260 million close for its Blue fund to back early-stage fund for science-first deeptech startups.

🇪🇸 Alantra launched a second European real estate debt fund with a target size of €200 million.

🇩🇪 Bertelsmann launched a $200 million health-tech venture fund with a transatlantic focused, managed by CEO Carsten Coesfeld.

🇬🇧 2150 raised €210 million for their second fund also focused on sustainability and climate-tech companies.

🇨🇭 b2venture raised €150 million for a fifth fund dedicated to local Swiss startups.

🇳🇱 Van Lanschot Kempen launched an evergreen PE secondaries fund with an initial €150 million commitment.

🇩🇪 seed+speed closed its third fund at €90 million.

🇪🇸 Aurica Capital announced the €50 million closing of a first PE fund.

Week 5

🇳🇴 Credo Partners secured $160 million in funding commitments for a newly launched PE fund.

🇨🇭 Vi Partners made a first closing for a new CHF 150 million fund, targeting Series A and early-stage technology and healthcare startups.

🇩🇪 Ananda Impact Ventures closes €73 million for new deeptech fund

🇩🇪 Vanagon announced closing LP commitments of €20 million.

🇦🇹 Andreas Klinger announced raising €15 million for Prototype, his third solo GP fund, targeting €20 million.

🇬🇷 Metavallon VC launched a €5 million pre-seed fund for deep tech and life sciences founders out of Athens.

Also notable

🇫🇷 Louise Boucher made official kicking off Sisyphus Ventures, a VC fund she started late last year, looking to invest in defense startups out of a maiden fund targeting 20 million.

she’s previously worked for Frst and Northzone and the new fund already chipped in to deals including Harmattan, ZeroPhase and Tiberius Aerospace, per our tracking.

🇬🇧 Athvance Capital is a newly minted fund targeting European sports investment, launched by ex-JP Morgan Karim Ben Rejeb and ex-Eurosport Danny Menken.

Week 4

🇬🇧 Coller Capital made a final closing for their $17 billion IX fund dedicated to private market secondaries.

🇪🇺 Sixth Street raised €3.75 billion for its third European direct lending fund.

🇩🇰 AIP Management held a €2 billion first close for their fifth infrastructure fund, which is targeting a total of €3 billion.

🇪🇺 H.I.G. Capital raised €1.6 billion for its fourth European midmarket fund.

🇱🇺 Apheon raised €1.25 billion for a sixth fund targeting majority buyout investments in primary situations in the lower-mid market of core Europe.

🇪🇸 Arcano Partners raised €850 million, also for a secondaries fund, their fifth.

🇩🇪 Rosberg Ventures of ex-F1 driver Nico Rosberg fame announced a $100 million fund for early stage direct investments, complementing an existing FoF one.

🇳🇱 Nextgen Ventures made a €28.5 million first close for a third fund.

Week 3

🇵🇱 State-owned bank BGK launched Future Tech Poland, a €350 million fund anchored by the EU and dedicated to local startups of all sizes.

🇨🇭 Übermorgen Ventures made a first CHF 55 million closing before Xmas for a new fund targeting early-stage companies providing solutions to the climate crisis.

🇵🇹 Belief Capital announced the closing of $20 million in commitments for a solo GP fund operated by Kevin Costa out of Portugal.

🇹🇷 e2vc also announced a first close for their third fund targeting €100 million to be deployed on Turkish startups.

🇮🇹 Gamma Waves Partners is a new investment firm founded by Andrea Agnelli (of Agnelli family), Rocco Benetton(of Benetton family) and Giorgio Chiellini (ex-pro football player) looking to fund sports-related companies at the growth-stage across the world.

CEO-ed from Milan’s HQ by a former banker, with the back-office in Amsterdam, where they’re currently looking for more muscle.

Semi-related: KKR just paid $1 billion for Dallas-based sport-focused PE Arctos for a broader push into sports investing.

Also notable

🇪🇸 Caixa Bank announced having done 7 deals totalling €30 million out of a €150 million venture debt fund it closed at the end of 2024.

Week 50

🇪🇸 Alma Mundi Ventures kicked off a new fund targeting closings of €1.25 billion to be deployed on deep tech and climate tech assets.

🇧🇪 Fortino Capital made a close of €700 million for their third PE fund, targeting Europe’s B2B SAAS companies.

🇬🇧 Expedition Growth Capital announced a first and final close at $375 million for their third fund dedicated to minority growth equity investments.

🇨🇭SwissHealth Ventures, the CVC of the local health insurer CSS, announced doubling the size of its evergreen fund to CHF 100 million, to be spent on twelve further investments.

🇫🇷 Isai announced a first close of €75 million for Isai Venture IV, targeting startups founded by French nationals in the US.

🇩🇰 PreSeed Ventures closed PSV Hafnium at €60 million, their first fund targeting Nordic deeptech startups.

🇪🇸 Cardumen Capital and Portocolom made a final €40 million close for a jointly-managed fund of fund targeting impact investors.

🇸🇪 Incore Invest announced a second closing for its second fund, now at €40 million commitments.

founded by Nicolai Chamizo and the founder of Minecraft Jonas Mårtensson – both live in Spain.

🇱🇹 Aneli Capital announced a €35 million debut fund to be deployed in the Baltics and CEE regions.

🇳🇴 StartupLab Founders closed $32 million for a fifth fund dedicated to local startups in Norway.

🇫🇮 Cloudberry raised €30 million for a debut early stage fund to be deployed into pre-seed

🇳🇱 Volve Capital announced a first fund with commitments of €9 million.

and seed startups working on semiconductors, photonics or advanced materials.

🇩🇰 The Nordic Web Ventures announced $6 million for a third fund run by former journalist Neil Murray.

🇮🇪 Baseline raised €4 million for a debut fund on the back of a local event community platform for early-stage Irish founders.

🇮🇹 Axel Carbon Capital announced the closing for an angel fund focused on doing climate-focused investment deals.

Also notable

🇩🇪 Picus Capital did a preferred equity financing transaction worth €150 million with Carlyle AlpInvest.