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Blue Bear Capital, led by partners Vaughn Blake and Ernst Sack, recently raised a $160 million third fund to support software-driven AI solutions in climate, energy, and industrial sectors. The firm focuses on investing in digital innovations that complement hardware in sectors like solar, wind, water treatment, and more. Blue Bear Capital’s approach emphasizes AI’s universal applicability across industries, aiming to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. The fund’s strategy includes reserving substantial capital for follow-on investments, with plans to back about 15 companies. Blue Bear’s investors include the McKnight Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and UBS. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/gCYstKwC INVESTORS: McKnight Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, UBS, Woven Earth Ventures & Zoma Capital AMOUNT: $160,000,000 HQ: #SanFrancisco #California #VentureCapital #BlueBearCapital #VaughnBlake #ErnstSack #TradedVC

I'm excited to share a big announcement as we close out #WomensMonth! Alternative Wealth Partners, LLC was built around diversity in every sense of the word. While Wall Street shies away from the conversation, we continue to lean in. Our strategy aims to provide investors with a blended portfolio of assets that showcase the resilience of traditional industries (like #Manufacturing) and the grit of emerging asset classes (like the current "Bell of the Ball," #AI). Our team sees major alpha where no one else is looking, bringing lived and earned experience to stale asset classes and industries. We've already proven our strategy in Fund I, so get ready for Fund II! Investors deserve access to diversified opportunities in private equity. Emerging managers, like myself, deserve allocations to bring on the next wave of difference-makers, creators, and innovators. As emerging managers, our access to tomorrow's opportunities is untouchable. Our alpha is our passion and our network. We are the feet on the street, the heartbeats of the community, and the brainpower behind real solutions for real problems. Onward & Upward! -Kelly #Diversity #Alpha #PrivateEquity #EmergingManagers #privateequityfund #investment #alternativeinvestments #PEfund #manufacturing #assets #investing #energy #infrastructure #fundraising #allocators #familyoffice #HNWI #UHNWI

Blue Earth Capital's CEO Stephen Marquardt recently sat down with Impact-Investor.com to discuss the growth of impact investing as an asset class, and how BlueEarth is taking a leading role in developing the sector. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e3FAN_dv #impactinvesting #makingaworldofdifference #totalimpact

BeyondNetZero, the climate-focused unit of General Atlantic, has acquired a 24.9 percent stake in fund manager Sustainable Development Capital LLP subject to regulatory approval. Read the story here to learn more: https://okt.to/LVjXUA #NPM #PrivateMarkets #Managers #Deals #Climate #ImpactInvesting #PrivateEquity #NorthAmerica

Moniepoint's early investors recently secured significant returns through secondary sales during the company's $110M Series C round. Now, investors in Africa's clean technology sector aim to replicate—and even surpass—this success. https://lnkd.in/dv5r6PbJ

I can travel all over the world but one common point continues to be noted across the globe - Chicago is the place for the best middle market private equity fund managers, and Chicago-based Wind Point Partners are one of the leaders in the market. Congratulations Alex Washington, Ron Liberman and the Wind Point Partners team on raising $2.3 billion for Fund X, exceeding the Fund’s $1.7 billion target. The closing of Fund X coincides with Wind Point Partners’ 40th anniversary and represents the firm’s largest fund to date, including a more than 50% increase to the 2019 predecessor fund. Founded in 1984, Wind Point Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm with approximately $7 billion in assets under management. The firm focuses on partnering with top caliber management teams to acquire well-positioned middle market businesses where it can establish a clear path to value creation. #fundraising #chicago #middlemarket #privateequity #midwest #institutionalinvestors #privatemarkets #alternativeinvestments #fundmanagers #capitalmarkets #limitedpartners #trackrecord https://lnkd.in/gnCrB7eV

🧐🧐🧐 Some insightful advice here from Angus Blair: “My advice to founders: think bigger and look further. Start building relationships with offshore investors a round earlier than you might have previously planned.” Founders, this is well worth a read! (Caffeine Daily continues to push out content that is super helpful for Founders and investors!)

#sustainability #NobelPrize Elon Musk was not financed for Tesla and SolarCity until he began by taking the risk and investing his own funds to the tune of a few hundred million dollars from his sale of PayPal to Hewlett Packard. As Bill Gates writes in his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need https://a.co/d/awh0Bpl proposing the concept of green premium but focusing on the need for innovation and not enough on current technologies as I have argued for a long time, his investment firm Breakthrough Energy is invested in fusion energy and future fission nuclear reactors as in Wyoming, and reducing cow farts to control methane emissions from the beef industry. Barack Obama and the climate left killed clean coal FutureGen 2.0 at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). There are many Gates financed or supported venture firms and BlackRock sitting on literally trillions of dollars of portfolios in Environment, Society, and Governance (ESG) investments only for the issue to be demagogued by both the left with greenwashing in America and Europe and on the right by Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy with his book Woke, Inc., by the military industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry with no outcomes to show despite the tax credits and loan programs in #bidenomics. There are incumbent players in the current environmentally unfriendly economy in every industry and wealthy individuals and they intend to transition because they have access to capital but not the vision or the ideas. For all practical purposes, I hold monopoly on global sustainability to get to the Paris Agreement goal of no more than 1.5 degrees celsius rise above pre-industrial times by 2100. It is a stalemate. They need to figure it out setting aside their own notions, social, institutional, political, or otherwise, to invest in me on my terms or they are free to muddle on their own. Federal Reserve’s - Federal Reserve Board which caused me grievous personal injury in 2010 by accusing me of Transformations, the name of my company, and still owes me $20 million for it - Jerome Powell calls climate a “social problem” like Nero fiddling on a roof top as Rome is burning, even as the United States is up the creek without a paddle on energy and inflation by 2030. I am not doing free public and social service at my expense to purportedly save humanity. I am a business person like Alfred Nobel.

"Recently, Danny Zouber and Tom Jorgensen, co-head of North Sky Capital’s secondaries strategy, helped raise over $250 million for the firm’s latest impact secondaries fund, Clean Growth VI, which focuses on GP-led and LP-led investments across energy transition, climatech, circular economy, healthy living and related sectors." #PrivateWealth #WealthManagement #RealAssets #PrivateMarkets #AlternativeInvestments #Alts #UHNW #HNW #FamilyOffices #IBD #RIA #PrivateInvestments #PrivateCredit #PrivateEquity #RealEstate

We had a great time at last night's Alternative Investmenting Happy Hour! With nearly 60 attendees and 5 co-host investment opportunities spanning VC, PE, real estate, solar, and entrepreneurial banking, it was an evening filled with learning, networking and meaningful connections. A special thanks to Bridgewater Bank for hosting us in their beautiful space and thank you to Carpathian Capital Management, Brait Capital, and Plains Energy for co-hosting alongside Traction Capital! If you missed this event but are interested in future alternative investment opportunities, reach out to [email protected] for more information. #AlternativeInvestments #Networking #InvestmentOpportunities