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Fresh VC fund highlight of the week: Align Ventures | $125M | Fund II Align Ventures is a New York-based consumer brand firm that has quietly built one of the best-performing early-stage franchises of its vintage, and now has $2.5B in total platform AUM to show for it. 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐕𝐂:  🔥 Closed Fund II at $125M in July 2026, oversubscribed above a $100M target, with support from existing and new LPs 🔥 Fund I (2019 vintage) ranks in the top decile on TVPI, Net IRR, and DPI among U.S. venture funds of that vintage per Carta. Exits include Coterie, Touchland, Hims, and Billie, with active portfolio names including Olipop, Starface, Jinx, and Radar 🔥 Focuses on beauty, personal care, health, wellness, pet, and home 🔥 Founded by Ben Bryce, who brings 15+ years of consumer investing experience and prior brand roles at The Estée Lauder Companies and LVMH, and Grant Hosking, formerly VP and Director at Stifel's Investment Banking Group from 2007 to 2018. The combination of brand-operating depth and M&A experience is the core value-add to founders navigating a path to strategic exit 🔥 Manages more than $2.5B in total platform AUM spanning early-stage investing alongside growth vehicles, secondaries, and co-investment, giving Fund II portfolio companies access to a full capital continuum well beyond the $125M vehicle itself Congrats to the team on the new fund! Looking forward to companies that will be supported by them 🥂 Track more new VC funds + full details, updated weekly, over here: https://lnkd.in/dy-YFKjY

Israeli founders keep proving one thing: you don't need to move to Silicon Valley to build global companies. That's exactly why Aleph just announced its $125M Fund V. The fund will continue backing Israeli founders building global technology companies from day one. Since launching in 2013, Aleph has backed companies including: • Melio • Healthy.io • Lemonade • Nexar • Windward • Bluevine • HiBob • Immunai • Env0 Rather than chasing every trend, the firm is doubling down on the strategy that built its track record: investing early and helping founders scale internationally. As AI reshapes every industry, funds with deep operational experience and global networks may have an even bigger advantage. Congrats to the entire Aleph team on Fund V. Michael Eisenberg Eden Shochat Yael Elad Tomer Diari Track more new VC funds + full details over here: https://lnkd.in/dy-YFKjY Read the article: https://lnkd.in/ggBbRBHQ

Fresh VC fund highlight of the week: Align Ventures | $125M | Fund II Align Ventures is a New York-based consumer brand firm that has quietly built one of the best-performing early-stage franchises of its vintage, and now has $2.5B in total platform AUM to show for it. 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐕𝐂:  🔥 Closed Fund II at $125M in July 2026, oversubscribed above a $100M target, with support from existing and new LPs 🔥 Fund I (2019 vintage) ranks in the top decile on TVPI, Net IRR, and DPI among U.S. venture funds of that vintage per Carta. Exits include Coterie, Touchland, Hims, and Billie, with active portfolio names including Olipop, Starface, Jinx, and Radar 🔥 Focuses on beauty, personal care, health, wellness, pet, and home 🔥 Founded by Ben Bryce, who brings 15+ years of consumer investing experience and prior brand roles at The Estée Lauder Companies and LVMH, and Grant Hosking, formerly VP and Director at Stifel's Investment Banking Group from 2007 to 2018. The combination of brand-operating depth and M&A experience is the core value-add to founders navigating a path to strategic exit 🔥 Manages more than $2.5B in total platform AUM spanning early-stage investing alongside growth vehicles, secondaries, and co-investment, giving Fund II portfolio companies access to a full capital continuum well beyond the $125M vehicle itself Congrats to the team on the new fund! Looking forward to companies that will be supported by them 🥂 Track more new VC funds + full details, updated weekly, over here: https://lnkd.in/dy-YFKjY

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The 50 largest family offices in the world manage $2.4 trillion combined. Some patterns worth noting: • tech founders now control 7 of the top 10 offices • the US accounts for 24 of the 50 • and Bentonville, Arkansas (population 57,000) hosts three entries, the most over-indexed city per capita for family office concentration anywhere Here's the full list, ranked by AUM: 1. Excession LLC — $630B+ (Elon Musk) 2. Bayshore Global Ventures — $239B (Sergey Brin) 3. Bezos Expeditions — $235B+ (Jeff Bezos) 4. Walton Enterprises — $225B (Walmart) 5. Cascade Investment Group, Inc. — $169B (Bill Gates) 6. Ballmer Group — $133B (Steve Ballmer) 7. Mousse Partners — $90-100B (Wertheimer family, Chanel) 8. ICONIQ Capital Group — $80B+ (Zuckerberg, Dorsey & others) 9. Waycrosse, Inc Inc. — $65B (Thomson family) 10. PONTEGADEA Inversiones — $55B (Amancio Ortega, Zara) 11. The Woodbridge Company Limited — $54B (Thomson family) 12. DFO Management, LLC — $50B+ (Michael Dell) 13. Dubai Holding — $35B (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid) 14. Athos KG — $31B (Reinhold Würth) 15. Bessemer Investors — $28B (Phipps family) 16. Emerson Collective — $26B (Laurene Powell Jobs) 17. Soros Fund Management — $25B (George Soros) 18. THE GROSVENOR ESTATE, L.L.C. — $25B (Duke of Westminster) 19. KIRKBI A/S — $24B (Kirk Kristiansen family, LEGO) 20. EUCLIDEAN CAPITAL, LLC — $22B (James Simons estate) 21. Hartono Family Office — $21B (Djarum Group) 22. Fingerboard Family Office — $19B (Newhouse family) 23. Crosby Capital Advisors, LLC — $17B (MacKenzie Scott) 24. Haniel Family Office — $16B 25. XT Group — $16B (Idan Ofer) 26. Builders Vision — $15B (Lukas Walton) 27. Koch Disruptive Technologies — $15B 28. Blue Pool Capital — $14B (Joe Tsai & Jack Ma) 29. Abdul Latif Jameel — $14B 30. Lundbeckfonden / Lundbeck Foundation — $14B 31. Willett Advisors LLC — $12B (Michael Bloomberg) 32. Cargill-MacMillan Family Office — $12B 33. Agache/Arnault Family Office — $12B (Bernard Arnault, LVMH) 34. Laurel Crown Partners — $11B (Tisch family) 35. Vulcan Capital — $11B (Paul Allen estate) 36. Access Industries — $11B (Len Blavatnik) 37. The Olayan Group — $10B 38 Ingka Holding — $10B (Kamprad family, IKEA) 39. CP Group — $10B (Chearavanont family) 40. Mars Family Office — $10B 41. Pritzker Group — $10B 42. Catapult Capital — $10B (Stanley Druckenmiller) 43. INEOS Family Office — $10B (Jim Ratcliffe) 44. Alta Advisers Limited — $10B (Rausing family, Tetra Pak) 45. CITIC Capital — $10B (Yung family) 46. Bronfman LLC Family Office — $10B 47. Fidelity Family Office — $10B (Johnson family) 48. IICC VC | Tiger Global Management — $10B (Chase Coleman III) 49. RZC Investments — $10B (Steuart & Tom Walton) 50. Schroeder Family Office — $10B (Hamburg Süd) Source: Altss PS: Check out the EverythingStartups newsletter & the new VC funds database: https://lnkd.in/d7X8up9h

This 26 year old founder turned her childhood experience navigating the healthcare system into a $225 million startup. This year, Forbes named Abby Care to its Next Billion-Dollar Startups list. Meet Havi N., Founder & CEO of Abby Care. Born and raised in Baytown, Texas, Havi grew up the daughter of two Vietnamese immigrants. Her parents ran a nail salon. Havi spent her weekends and summers there. At 16, she taught herself to code. That same drive earned her a scholarship to Columbia University to study computer science. She interned at Google and Meta. But her first full-time job pointed her somewhere else entirely. At Songbird, a therapy startup, Havi led strategy and operations. She kept running into the same wall. She could not find in-home care for autistic children. Families were desperate. The system was broken. In 2021, Havi founded Abby Care to fix it. Her idea: train family members to become certified, paid caregivers, using the Medicaid funds already meant to cover that care. Many told her the system was too complex to touch. She went state by state anyway, untangling decades of policy just to find a way in. Investors took notice. Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, and Khosla Ventures backed her early. Today, Abby Care operates in eight states, with more piloting. Reflecting on where it all started, her answer is simple: "My life's mission is to empower the underserved." One of the most interesting healthcare founders of her generation. And she's only getting started 🥂 PS: Check out the EverythingStartups newsletter and these useful resources I have put together 👇 New VC funds database: https://lnkd.in/d7X8up9h 45+ startup accelerators https://lnkd.in/egQJgetD 60+ active Pre-seed to Series A investors: https://lnkd.in/eTKS-apX VC scout programs: https://lnkd.in/dwrTNziZ

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70+ pre-seed to Series A VCs have recently launched new funds and are looking to invest right now. If you’re fundraising, this is your map. Here’s who’s deploying right now 👇 𝐏𝐒: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐕𝐂 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 + 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 👇 https://lnkd.in/dy-YFKjY • Andreessen Horowitz — $15B • Thrive Capital — $10B • Lightspeed Venture Partners — $9B • Peak XV Partners — $1.3B • Layer Global — $1.1B • Sequoia Capital — $950M •Dragonfly — $650M • Primary Venture Partners — $625M • 2150 — $593M • Antler — $510M • Seligman Ventures — $500M • Obvious Ventures — $360M • Santé Ventures — $330M • CAVU Consumer Partners — $325M • NFX — $325M • daphni — $308M • Picus Capital — $294M • Voyager Ventures — $275M • Quantonation Ventures — $259M • Basis Set Ventures — $250M • Servier Ventures — $234M • Kindred Ventures — $227M • Entrepreneurs First — $200M • PureTerra Ventures — $177M • b2venture — $177M • StageOne Ventures — $165M • SlateVC — $156M • Elaia — $152M • Deep33 Ventures — $150M • Epidarex Capital — $145M • Scout Ventures — $125M • e2vc — $116M • Emerald Technology Ventures — $114M • Breakout Ventures — $114M • Rosberg Ventures — $100M • Seraphim Space — $100M • MASNA Ventures — $100M • Arkin Bio Ventures — $100M • All Aboard Fund — $99M • The Footprint Firm — $90M • Social Leverage — $85M • 2048 Ventures — $82M • Balnord — $81M • Samaipata — $79M • Second Sight Ventures — $75M • Fitz Gate Ventures — $70M • University2Ventures — $70M • DBA — $62M • Time4 — $57M • FutureFirst Ventures — $50M • Also Capital — $50M • Brainworks Ventures — $50M • Citrine Venture Partners — $50M • GHARAGE Ventures — $46M • Valkyrie — $45M • Navam Capital — $34M • CoFound — $30M • FIRSTPICK — $29M • Superorganism — $25.9M • Factorial Capital — $25M • Multimodal Ventures — $15M • Catalpa Ventures — $11M • ZOHO.VC — $8M • TheFounderVC — $5M • Yonder — $4.6M • NordSpace Ventures — $2M ♻️ Repost and share with a founder if this was helpful!