RCS's $350M Contrarian Office Fund: Bottom Call or Falling Knife?
Real Capital Solutions (RCS) just launched a $350 million "Contrarian Office Fund" seeded with a personal $50 million check from CEO Marcel Arsenault, and it plans to use roughly 2.4x leverage to buy...
August 14, 2026
Private Credit's Split Screen: Institutional Records vs. Retail BDC Redemptions
Private credit ran two completely different playbooks in the first half of 2026. Institutional LPs closed a record ~$190 billion into private credit funds, up 53% year over year, according to With...
August 14, 2026
Medalist Diversified's Debut DST Just Closed. Its NASDAQ Listing Is the Real Story.
TL;DR: Medalist Diversified, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRR) closed its debut Delaware Statutory Trust offering on August 7, 2026, raising $8,586,240 in equity from accredited 1031 exchange investors against a...
August 13, 2026
Team8's $365M Fund III Already Has an Exit. Here's What That Signals About Deployment Discipline.
TL;DR: Team8 closed $365 million in new capital this month, split between $265 million for Fund III and more than $100 million for follow-on checks, pushing total assets under management to nearly $2...
August 13, 2026
Private Credit Is Financing the AI Datacenter Boom. Here's the Concentration Risk Nobody's Pricing.
TL;DR: Private credit funds are underwriting the AI datacenter boom by lending against GPUs and hyperscaler contracts, and the industry is pitching it as diversified, asset-backed credit. It is not....
August 13, 2026
On-Chain Private Credit: How Blockchain-Settled Fund Structures Actually Work (and Where They Don't)
TL;DR: Putting a private credit fund on a blockchain speeds up settlement and makes NAV updates more visible, but it does not turn illiquid corporate loans into a liquid asset. Apollo's ACRED and...
August 13, 2026
Craft Ventures V: What David Sacks First Fund Since the White House Signals for LPs
TL;DR: Craft Ventures filed a Form D with the SEC on August 7, 2026 for Craft Ventures V, LP, an indefinite-size venture capital fund that people close to the raise say is targeting roughly $1...
August 13, 2026
Kay Properties vs. Passco Companies: How Two DST Sponsors Actually Differ for 1031 Exchange Investors
TL;DR: Kay Properties & Investments is a marketplace. It doesn't sponsor its own DSTs; it gives investors access to offerings from more than 25 different DST sponsor companies and helps them pick and...
August 13, 2026
Accel's $550M India Fund Closed in Weeks, With 55% of the Last Fund Still Unspent
TL;DR: Accel closed a $550 million India venture fund in weeks, oversubscribed, just 19 months after its prior $650 million India fund. More than 55% of that prior fund sits undeployed, according to...
August 13, 2026
The 45-Day 1031 Exchange Clock: A Section-by-Section Survival Checklist
TL;DR: The 45-day identification deadline in a Section 1031 exchange is absolute. There is no extension for a slow closing, a lost contract, or a holiday weekend, per Treasury Regulation §1.1031(k)-1...
August 13, 2026
Exponent's EUR750M Continuation Vehicle for H&MV Engineering: The Valuation Math LPs Should Check
TL;DR: Exponent closed a roughly EUR750 million ($865 million) single-asset continuation vehicle for H&MV Engineering on August 11, 2026, valuing the Limerick-based high-voltage electrical contractor...
August 13, 2026
Foreign LPs Are Now the Majority Check-Writers in Seed-Stage India Funds. Here Is the Data.
TL;DR: Aum Ventures closed the first tranche of its India Innovation Fund II at roughly ₹225 crore (about $23.6 million), and more than 65% of that money came from foreign limited partners in the US,...
August 13, 2026