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Los Angeles Times
14-07-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Private Equity Firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Closed $3.6 Billion Fund
Los Angeles-based private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners closed a $3.6-billion fund that exceeded targets. The LLCP Fund VII received strong support from its existing investor base as well as a diverse set of new institutional investors. The company has raised more than $4 billion of capital across its platform in the last two years, including substantial co-investment capital. 'We are extremely pleased with the immense support for Fund VII, which reflects considerable trust and strong conviction in LLCP's proven strategy and team. The global investment community recognizes LLCP's ability to generate substantial deployment and realization volume for our limited partners in the current market environment,' said Matthew Frankel, managing partner of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, in a statement. The firm has executed more than $4.6 billion of realizations over the past three years through numerous successful sale transactions, including Encore Fire Protection, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Law Business Research and Hand & Stone. Fund VII will focus on investing in market-leading, middle-market businesses, with a focus on sectors including franchising, business services, education and training, and engineered products. The Fund has already completed several platform investments – All4, Schülerhilfe and USA Water – and expects to close its fourth platform this month. Information for this article was sourced from Levine Leichtman Capital Partners.
Business Wire
09-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
LLCP Closes Oversubscribed Fund VII With Over $3.6 Billion of Capital Commitments
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Levine Leichtman Capital Partners ('LLCP'), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, today announced the final closing of LLCP Fund VII ('Fund VII') with total capital commitments of over $3.6 billion, materially exceeding its target. The fund was significantly oversubscribed despite one of the most challenging fundraising environments in recent history, receiving strong support from its existing investor base as well as a diverse set of new institutional investors. LLCP has raised well over $4 billion of capital across its platform in the last twenty-four months, including substantial co-investment capital. LLCP attributes its fundraising success to several competitive advantages, including a differentiated, uncorrelated investment strategy that has continued to deliver robust investment returns through several investment cycles, exit activity that has outpaced the broader market, and consistent deployment in attractive opportunities well-aligned with LLCP's core strengths. LLCP has executed over $4.6 billion of realizations over the past three years through numerous successful sale transactions, including Encore Fire Protection, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Law Business Research and Hand & Stone. Matthew Frankel, Managing Partner at LLCP, said, 'We are extremely pleased with the immense support for Fund VII, which reflects considerable trust and strong conviction in LLCP's proven strategy and team. The global investment community recognizes LLCP's ability to generate substantial deployment and realization volume for our limited partners in the current market environment.' Michael Weinberg, Managing Partner at LLCP, added, 'We are grateful for the continued support and confidence we received from our returning and new limited partners. LLCP's continued success reflects our team's ability to source attractive investment opportunities, partner with talented management teams and build great companies. We look forward to continuing our 41-year track record of success through varying economic environments.' Fund VII will continue LLCP's successful strategy of investing in market-leading, middle market businesses, with a focus on sectors including franchising, business services, education & training, and engineered products. The Fund has already completed several platform investments – All4, Schülerhilfe and USA Water – and expects to close its fourth platform this month, demonstrating LLCP's ability to execute on attractive opportunities. Fund VII is nearly one and half times the size of LLCP's previous flagship fund, which closed in 2018 with total capital commitments of $2.5 billion. About LLCP Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC is a middle-market private equity firm with a 41-year track record of investing across various targeted sectors, including Business Services, Franchising & Multi-unit, Education & Training and Engineered Products & Manufacturing. LLCP utilizes a differentiated Structured Private Equity investment strategy, combining debt and equity capital investments in portfolio companies. LLCP believes that by investing in a combination of debt and equity securities, it offers management teams growth capital in a highly tailored, flexible investment structure that can be a more attractive alternative than traditional private equity. LLCP's global team of dedicated investment professionals is led by 9 partners who have worked at LLCP for an average of 19 years. Since inception, LLCP and its affiliates have managed approximately $18.1 billion of capital across nearly 20 investment funds and have invested in approximately 120 portfolio companies. LLCP and its affiliates currently manage $12.7 billion of assets and have offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
Business Wire
08-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
From $1M to $1.1B: Boldstart Ventures Launches $250M Fund VII to Back Inception-Stage Founders Building the Autonomous Enterprise
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boldstart Ventures, the inception fund for technical founders building the autonomous enterprise, today announced the close of Fund VII, a $250 million vehicle dedicated to backing bold technical teams from the very first commit. What began in 2010 as a $1 million proof-of-concept, before 'pre-seed' was even a term, has grown into a platform with over $1.1 billion in assets under management. That growth hasn't changed the strategy. Fund VII was significantly oversubscribed, but Boldstart chose to hold firm at $250 million to stay true to its model: high-conviction, hands-on investing at inception and nothing else. 'When others wait for signals, we bet on conviction,' said Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner. 'Fund VII is our biggest commitment yet to the builders reimagining the operating system of the enterprise, where software, agents, and machines plan and act on our behalf. Staying at $250M lets us stay focused, stay early, and keep showing up for founders before the rest of the world believes.' Fund VII will write initial checks from $500K to $15M, with the ability to support breakout growth through Boldstart's existing $175M Opportunities III fund. Video: Backing Myth-Makers from Day Zero 'Inception is about far more than capital, it's about compound leverage,' said Eliot Durbin, General Partner. 'For 15 years, we've worked side by side with technical founders to help shape the earliest story, unlock first customers, and architect the conditions for breakout. That's where Boldstart operates best, before the noise, before the signal.' Standout inception-stage investments from first commit to category leader include: Snyk – creators of developer first security, now AI security leader, last valued at $7.4B Protect AI – AI security leader acquired by Palo Alto Networks for over $700M Clay – creators of GTM engineering valued at $3.1B Kustomer – reimagining customer support, sold to Meta for reported $1B CrewAI – Multi-agent platform powering 60M+ agent runs/month Spectro Cloud – leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, valued at $750M Hypernative – Real-time risk intelligence for crypto and traditional finance Building the OS for the Autonomous Enterprise Fund VII is focused on the core primitives powering a generational rewrite of the enterprise; one where software, agents, and machines operate at machine scale, continuously reasoning, learning, and acting. It'll invest across the stack: AI-native infrastructure Secure identity and permissionless coordination Agents driving autonomous execution, going beyond assistive tools to full-scale operation Semantic interfaces and robotic execution layers Programmable money, smart contracts, and crypto-native automation These aren't just new tools. They represent a full-stack shift from human-in-the-loop to machine-in-the-loop. The autonomous enterprise won't be retrofitted from SaaS; it will be rebuilt from scratch. The autonomous enterprise will require entirely new business models, robotic execution layers, and AI-native workflows built without a traditional back office. Crypto and smart contracts will unlock programmable money and permissionless automation, enabling trustless coordination across systems at scale. Systems will run at machine scale, continuously learning, reasoning, and operating in real time. We have already partnered with teams like Generalist AI and several stealth startups tackling massive real-world problems and rethinking how intelligence moves through the enterprise stack. An early preview of model capabilities | Generalist 'This isn't about optimizing yesterday's stack,' added Sim. 'It's about building the operating system for the intelligent enterprise; from scratch, wired for autonomy, and secured from day one.' For more information, visit: | Watch the Fund VII announcement video: YouTube Link About boldstart ventures boldstart ventures is the inception fund for technical founders building the operating system of the autonomous enterprise. We invest before the product, pitch deck, or company exists, backing bold ideas that feel more like myth than market. Since 2010, we've partnered with 130+ founding teams, helping turn raw conviction into breakout momentum. Our portfolio includes category-defining companies like Snyk, BigID, Protect AI (sold to Palo Alto Networks >$700M, Clay, Kustomer (sold to Meta $1B), Blockdaemon, and CrewAI.
Business Wire
16-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners Closes Seventh Discretionary Equity Fund
BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners ('WDIP') announced the successful closing of its seventh discretionary equity fund, Fund VII, a $135 million value-add and opportunistic vehicle focused on middle market multifamily and industrial real estate across the U.S. Fund VII, managed by Brian Cornell, Ryan Castle, Marcus Duley, and Mitch Resnick, has already seeded eight investments, totaling over 50% of its capital commitments, and is well on its way to fully deploying into what the team believes to be an exceptionally favorable market. The fund targets 15%+ net returns and 1.5x+ net multiples by capitalizing on underutilized and mispriced assets with actionable value enhancement plans. The fund's core focus is on middle market deals with equity checks ranging from $5 million to $25 million, targeting investments that often fly under the institutional radar. 'Fund VII is a smaller, tactical equity vehicle designed to deploy capital quickly and efficiently in a space ripe with current opportunity and limited competition amongst equity providers,' said Cornell, managing director and head of equity at WDIP. 'Our goal is to provide investors with a diverse portfolio of 2024 and 2025 vintage investments benefitting from cyclical pricing lows, strong long term demand fundamentals, and higher stabilized yield profiles that can withstand higher interest rates and generate very attractive risk adjusted returns.' Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners ("WDIP") is a real estate private equity firm which manages capital on behalf of endowments, foundations, pension plans, private funds, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals. With $6.3 billion of assets under management, WDIP invests debt and equity capital in value-added, opportunistic, distressed, and special situation transactions through a series of private funds, joint ventures and separately managed accounts. Over the past 18 years WDIP has invested $16.6 billion in debt and equity across 610 transactions. WDIP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Walker & Dunlop, Inc. (NYSE: WD), one of the largest commercial real estate finance and advisory services firms in the United States. Our ideas and capital create communities where people live, work, shop, and play. The diversity of our people, breadth of our brand and technological capabilities make us one of the most insightful and client-focused firms in the commercial real estate industry. For more information, visit All investments have risk of loss and WDIP cannot guarantee any investment strategy will achieve its goals and objectives. Nothing herein is an offer to sell any security, including an interest in any private fund. About Walker & Dunlop Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest commercial real estate finance and advisory services firms in the United States and internationally. Our ideas and capital create communities where people live, work, shop, and play. Our innovative people, breadth of our brand, and our technological capabilities make us one of the most insightful and client-focused firms in the commercial real estate industry.
