Private Equity Fundraising Data 2026: What the Numbers Reveal About the Drought
Global private equity fundraising closed 2025 at $616 billion, down from a 2021 peak of $1.8 trillion. Buyout funds alone raised $395 billion, a 16% drop from the year before. The money that did come...
August 26, 2026
Lex Markets Is Dead: What Its Collapse Teaches About Platform-Dependent Liquidity in Fractional Real Estate
Lex Markets built a genuinely novel structure: SEC-qualified Regulation A+ shares in single buildings, trading on a Nasdaq-powered exchange, for a $250 minimum, open to any investor regardless of...
August 26, 2026
How to Vet a Fund Manager's Track Record Before You Commit Capital
A single markup on one thinly traded holding once inflated a private equity fund's reported IRR from 3.8% to 38.3% in one quarter, and the SEC made the manager pay for it. That case is your reminder...
August 26, 2026
FGV Capital's Oversubscribed $35M Fund II Tests an Inverted VC Model
FGV Capital, the venture firm formerly known as Fiat Ventures, closed an oversubscribed $35M Fund II against a $25M target, pushing total assets under management past $60M. The firm's pitch to LPs...
August 26, 2026
Operational Due Diligence: What LPs Actually Check Before Wiring Capital to an Emerging Manager
Operational risk, not bad stock picks, causes roughly half of all fund failures according to a landmark 100-fund study by Capco. In 2026, 87% of institutional LPs surveyed by Altss said they had...
August 26, 2026
Excuse Rights in Private Equity Explained: When an LP Can Opt Out of a Deal and Why GPs Hate Them
An excuse right is a clause in a private equity fund's limited partnership agreement that lets a specific limited partner (LP) sit out one deal, without penalty, when that deal conflicts with the LP's
August 25, 2026
Rentberry's Reg CF-to-IPO Stack: What a $5M Crowdfunding Cap and a 2027 IPO Target Reveal
Rentberry has raised $4.98 million from 838 investors on Republic, sitting $20,000 short of the $5 million cap regulators put on Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) offerings in any 12-month period, acco
August 25, 2026
L1 Group's $500M Entitlement Offer Recharges Its $1.1B ASX Gold Fund
L1 Group wants up to $500 million more for its ASX-listed L1 Gold Fund (ASX: LGF), four months after the vehicle raised $950 million to go public. The structure: a $160 million institutional placement
August 25, 2026
How to Spot Fee Stacking in a Fund-of-Funds Before You Invest: A Checklist
A fund-of-funds (a fund that invests in other private funds instead of buying assets directly) can quietly eat 27% to 30% of your committed capital in stacked management fees alone over a 10-year fund
August 25, 2026
Saleen's Wefunder Raise: Brand Nostalgia Is Not a Business Model
TL;DR: Saleen Automotive is raising money on Wefunder at a $45 million valuation cap with roughly $51,000 committed so far, while its own SEC Form C filing discloses a going-concern warning, a FY2025
August 25, 2026
Cost Segregation Studies Explained: How Real Estate Syndicators Accelerate Depreciation
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), bonus depreciation is now a permanent 100% for qualified property placed in service after January 19, 2025, according to IRS guidance issued in Notice 202
August 25, 2026
CrowdStreet's iCapital Talent Raid: Can New Leadership Outrun a $63 Million Fraud Scandal?
CrowdStreet just hired Chris Piazza, the former iCapital CTO who helped build a platform now processing over $200 billion in alternative-asset AUM, and Lindsay Obenhaus, a product leader with stints a
August 25, 2026