Bridge Logistics Closes $1.4B Industrial Fund: Why Institutional Money Is Still Betting on Warehouses

    Bridge Logistics Closes $1.4B Industrial Fund: Why Institutional Money Is Still Betting on Warehouses

    Bridge Logistics Properties, an industrial real estate manager operating under the Apollo Global Management umbrella after Apollo's $1.5 billion all-stock acquisition of Bridge Investment Group in...

    June 6, 2026

    Mach Industries Raises $300M at $1.8B Valuation: What Defense Tech's Hottest Startup Means for Investors

    Mach Industries Raises $300M at $1.8B Valuation: What Defense Tech's Hottest Startup Means for Investors

    Mach Industries, a three-year-old defense manufacturer founded by 22-year-old MIT dropout Ethan Thornton, closed a $300 million Series C on June 2, 2026, valuing the company at $1.8 billion, a 4x...

    June 6, 2026

    Crescent Capital Closes $10.8B Direct Lending Fund: What the Record Raise Signals for Private Credit

    Crescent Capital Closes $10.8B Direct Lending Fund: What the Record Raise Signals for Private Credit

    Crescent Capital Group closed its fourth U.S. direct lending fund on June 3, 2026, raising $10.8 billion in total investable capital, more than double the $4.2 billion predecessor fund closed in...

    June 6, 2026

    Partners Group Just Gated Its $8.6B Evergreen PE Fund: What Accredited Investors Need to Know Now

    Partners Group Just Gated Its $8.6B Evergreen PE Fund: What Accredited Investors Need to Know Now

    Partners Group gated its $8.6 billion Partners Group Global Value SICAV on June 3, 2026, after quarterly redemption requests reached 9.8% of net asset value, nearly double the fund's 5% contractual...

    June 6, 2026

    Form ADV: How to Check Your Investment Adviser Before You Write a Check

    Form ADV: How to Check Your Investment Adviser Before You Write a Check

    The SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) database lets you search any registered investment adviser's full Form ADV in seconds, for free. As of 2024, 15,870 SEC-registered RIAs manage...

    June 6, 2026

    Capital Call in Private Equity: What Every LP Needs to Know Before the Wire

    Capital Call in Private Equity: What Every LP Needs to Know Before the Wire

    According to ILPA's September 2025 Capital Call & Distribution Template v2.0 , standard capital call notices give LPs 10 to 15 business days to wire funds after receiving notice. That window...

    June 6, 2026

    Advisory Shares Explained: What Angel Investors Need to Know Before a Startup's Cap Table Matters

    Advisory Shares Explained: What Angel Investors Need to Know Before a Startup's Cap Table Matters

    According to Carta's H1 2024 compensation data , the median pre-seed advisor equity grant is 0.21% of fully diluted shares, down from 0.25% in prior years. Only 10% of pre-seed advisors receive 1% or...

    June 6, 2026

    TVPI in Private Equity: The Performance Metric That Actually Tells You If You Made Money

    TVPI in Private Equity: The Performance Metric That Actually Tells You If You Made Money

    According to ILPA's January 2025 Performance Template , every private equity fund reporting to institutional LPs must now disclose TVPI in two ways: with and without the impact of subscription credit...

    June 6, 2026

    AI Valuations at 12x ARR: What Investors Should Know

    AI Valuations at 12x ARR: What Investors Should Know

    TL;DR: AlphaSense raised $350M at a $7.5B post-money valuation on June 3, 2026 , valuing the enterprise market intelligence platform at 12.5x its $600M annual recurring revenue. That matches public

    June 5, 2026

    Fundrise Review 2026: Real Returns, Real Risks

    Fundrise Review 2026: Real Returns, Real Risks

    TL;DR: 5.7% Annualized Over 8 Years. Not the Marketing Page. Fundrise advertises itself as the accessible entry point to private real estate. Official client returns show 6.24% in 2025, 5.75% in

    June 5, 2026

    Private Credit 2026: Yields, Risks, and How to Access It

    Private Credit 2026: Yields, Risks, and How to Access It

    TL;DR: Private credit hit $3.5 trillion in global AUM in 2026, returning 9.3% in 2025 via the Cliffwater Direct Lending Index. Current unlevered yields sit at SOFR (~3.7-4.3%) plus 500-600 basis

    June 5, 2026

    Crescent Capital Closes 0.8B Fund: Private Credit Is Booming. Here Are the Risks.

    Crescent Capital Closes 0.8B Fund: Private Credit Is Booming. Here Are the Risks.

    TL;DR According to a June 3 BusinessWire release , c rescent Capital Group closed its fourth direct lending fund at $10.8B in investable capital on June 3, 2026—the largest in the firm's 35-year

    June 5, 2026