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Pinegrove Venture Partners announced the final close of Strategic Investors Fund XII at $1.5 billion on September 10, 2026. The vehicle is fund-of-funds plus co-invest across Early and Scale sleeves. $15 billion-plus is platform AUM, not this fund. Named LP: Florida State Board of Administration.
Sep 10 megaprints we deep-dive: Boring Company $3B, Positron $875M, Mach $600M extension, Maven Robotics $100M, Inspiren $70M, Luminary $22M, Graph AI $13.3M — plus Arlequin and Ayar briefs and what we skipped.
Sep 9 deep dives: Lightfield $47M (a16z), Cymphony $25M (Sequoia), Euno $23M (N47), Buildcheck $12M (Telescope), Bulwark $6.8M seed — plus talks we skipped and links to other September indexes.
Greylock led Antioch’s $32 million Series A. TrueBridge closed Secondaries II at $508 million. Blee’s Series A is $20 million ($27 million is lifetime). CloudNC’s $20 million is a B extension; $128 million lifetime does not add from 2022. PHYMI’s seed is almost $100 million. Herdr $6 million Bessemer. VideoGen $3.3 million is roundup-only. Mistral, Cognition, and Jet Zero sit on other September indexes.
TrueBridge Capital Partners announced the final close of Secondaries II at $508 million on September 8, 2026. Fund I closed at $230 million in 2024. LP names were not disclosed. $15.0 billion is regulatory AUM for the whole firm, not this vehicle.
