University of Chicago is among the limited partners for Kindred Capital’s second fund, which will invest in early-stage European startups.
UK-based venture capital firm Kindred Capital has closed an £81m ($104m) fund thanks to limited partners including University of Chicago, TechCrunch reported yesterday.
Insurance provider Legal & General has also invested in the fund, as have Industry Ventures, Generation Ventures, Sands Capital, British Patient Capital, Isomer Capital and private investors Taavet Hinrikus, Carsten Thoma and Rishi Khosla.
The fund will focus on seed-stage startups in Europe, operating a model the firm has dubbed equitable venture whereby the founders…
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Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
