


Apollo Funds Reach Agreement with American Securities to Acquire Trace3, a Leading Technology Solutions Provider Driving Adoption of Next-Generation Technology and AI

VenCap Weekley Update - 08 August 2025

Carlyle AlpInvest Closes Largest Publicly Rated GP-Led CFO at $1.25 Billion

Blackstone Announces Agreement to Acquire Enverus

Apollo Funds to Acquire Majority Stake in Stream Data Centers, Forming a Scaled Digital Infrastructure Leader

Carlyle to Invest in Ingentis

CommScope to Sell its Connectivity and Cable Solutions Segment to Amphenol Corporation for $10.5 billion

GeoWealth Secures $38 Million in Series C Funding Led by Apollo

Carlyle Raises $9 Billion for Its Tenth and Largest U.S. Opportunistic Real Estate Fund

EQT Group
Stockholm, SwedenEQT is a purpose-driven global investment organisation with nearly three decades of consistent investment performance across multiple geographies, sectors, and strategies
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Apollo Global Management
New York, United StatesApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.
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VenCap International plc
Oxford, United KingdomOur mission at VenCap is to build a concentrated portfolio of venture funds from those VCs that consistently back the top 1% of companies and deliver strong and consistent performance to our investors. VenCap has committed USD 2.9 billion to this small group of top-tier VC’s in the US, Europe, China and India - our Core Managers. We work closely with the venture firms with whom we invest to provide insight and analytics that help inform their own decisions. We believe that this focus gives us a competitive advantage when it comes to identifying and accessing the best firms in the industry. VenCap was founded in 1987, and as such we are one of the longest-established investment management and advisory firms active in the VC industry today. We believe that venture capital is a long-term business that is based on strong personal relationships. We have been trusted to manage capital by many leading institutions and family offices across the world with whom we have developed strong and lasting relationships based on trust, transparency and authenticity.
More information on our website: https://www.vencap.com/
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Carlyle Group
Washington, DC, United StatesCarlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit, and Global Investment Solutions. With $441 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2024, Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies, and the communities in which we live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 2,300 people in 29 offices across four continents.
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Blackstone Group
New York, United StatesBlackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which we invest. Our more than $1 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, credit, real assets, secondaries and hedge funds.
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