Venture Capital
The West Coast venture firm and incubator has hired a new investor, who was most recently an analyst at a Southern healthcare system.
The university approved re-up commitments with existing private equity firms within its endowment as recommended by its general investment consultant at its September investment committee meeting.
The pension fund approved new private markets commitments across private equity, credit and real assets at today’s meeting.
The pension system made $116.5 million in new private markets commitments in July.
The retirement fund also disclosed commitments totaling roughly $1.7 billion in June.
The plan’s investment committee also approved reallocating assets from a Japan equity portfolio at a meeting yesterday.
The plan also approved $320 million in alternatives investments at this week’s meetings.
The university approved adding new private equity managers as well as re-upping a commitment with an existing venture capital manager within its endowment.
The firm is launching a venture capital fund that will invest in early-stage companies using climate technology and artificial intelligence to improve real assets.
The fund will consider increasing portfolio leverage at its next board meeting as it also looks to reposition its venture capital program to exploit new market opportunities.
