Matt Pellini

Leading private markets investment firm Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) has announced the launch of the Hamilton Lane Global Venture Capital and Growth Fund (“HLGVG” or “the Fund”), an evergreen investment vehicle focused on growth and venture opportunities in the private markets. The Fund is available to certain high-net-worth investors and their advisors, as well as institutional investors, in parts of Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

HLGVG offers investors access to the firm’s global venture capital investment platform, which seeks to deliver strong performance by investing in disruptive technologies and innovative businesses. The Fund leverages Hamilton Lane’s deep expertise in private markets co-investments and secondaries to access compelling deal flow. Structured as an evergreen vehicle, the portfolio is diversified across vintage year, transaction type, manager, strategy and geography.

With a focus on innovation, diversification and institutional-quality assets, the Fund seeks to address common barriers to entry in this dynamic space. It follows the launch of the firm’s venture evergreen fund in the U.S. earlier this year. The Fund seeks to leverage Hamilton Lane’s use of proprietary data, technology, and AI to support decision making and operational excellence. Hamilton Lane’s track record of driving digital transformation within the industry, now under its HL Innovations initiative, includes strategic balance sheet investments in transformational investment technology, the development of its proprietary Cobalt platform and more.

Matthew Pellini, Co-Head of Venture Capital and Growth Equity at Hamilton Lane, commented: “With companies choosing to stay private for longer, many of the most attractive investment opportunities today can only be found in the private markets, an important segment of which is the venture and growth space. By capitalising on disruptive innovations in established and emerging market segments, the HLGVG portfolio aims to offer an edge in adaptation to new technological advancements, like AI as it drives a wave of growth in tech businesses.”

“After launching our first evergreen fund in 2019, we continue to expand the strategies available to our investors around the world. We believe these structures will play an increasingly important role in many sophisticated investors’ portfolios. Our launch of HLGVG, one of the few venture-focused evergreen products globally, allows clients to participate in the most inaccessible part of the private markets,” said James Martin, Head of Global Client Solutions at Hamilton Lane.

Hamilton Lane has been active in the venture and growth equity space for nearly three decades. Within the venture and growth equity space, the firm has over 260 established relationships spanning more than 370 investments, with a total of $117.8 billion in assets under management and supervision(2). HLGVG leverages the firm’s depth of experience in this space with the aim of offering access to what the firm believes to be high-quality venture capital and growth equity market opportunities.

HLGVG is the latest addition to Hamilton Lane’s broader $13 billion+ AUM^[1] Evergreen Platform.

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Notes:
[1] As of 7/31/25
[2] Inclusive of $13.9B in discretionary assets under management and $103.9B in non-discretionary assets under management as of 12/31/24

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Miguel Luiña

Leading global private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) has announced the final close of its Venture Access Fund (“VAF” or “the Fund”), which successfully exceeded its target fund size, raising $615.3 million in commitments.

VAF, which closed 23% over its $500 million target, features a venture portfolio that targets top-performing, oversubscribed funds and companies, while leveraging the extensive platform, access and relationships Hamilton Lane has built over its nearly 30 years of investing in the space. The Fund’s unique composition of primary and secondary transactions is designed to accelerate capital back to investors and mitigate the J-curve, providing Limited Partners with a fee-efficient, best-in-class VC solution.

Building on Hamilton Lane’s extensive track record and nearly $117 billion in AUM and AUA* across venture and growth equity, VAF is the firm’s first globally distributed venture vehicle and represents an evolution of its Venture and Growth Equity Platform. The fundraise centered on attractive venture capital market dynamics and LP demand, with participation from a group of global and diversified investors, spanning public and corporate pension funds, financial institutions, Taft-Hartley plans, family offices and foundations and endowments.

Miguel Luina, Co-Head of Venture and Growth Equity at Hamilton Lane, commented: “We are thrilled to announce the final close of the inaugural Venture Access Fund, which surpassed our target fund size despite the difficult fundraising environment. This achievement is a testament to the confidence our clients and investors have in our ability to access premier venture opportunities and navigate a dynamic market.

VAF represents a unique opportunity for investors to gain exposure to what we believe to be best-in-class venture capital managers, breakout companies, well-priced secondaries and high-potential co-investments. Our institutional approach to portfolio construction and strong relationships aimed to deliver a high-quality experience to investors of all types.”

“For those with scale, expertise and strong relationships, the current VC market presents compelling opportunities, driven by active company formation and rapid value creation from AI and other disruptive technologies, and lower overall capital availability. Specifically, the opportunity set within the secondary market is robust, as the trend of companies staying private longer persists, causing existing shareholders to seek alternative methods of liquidity,” said Matt Pellini, Co-Head of Venture and Growth Equity at Hamilton Lane.

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