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New Private Funds Filing With the SEC
New pooled investment fund notices on Form D by fund type, deal vehicles left out, per quarter
3 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Private equity funds · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 1 year
Venture capital funds · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 1 year
Hedge funds · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 1 year
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. A projection, not a promise.
Palanor calculation from SEC Form D filings (public domain). Original notices (not amendments) with the industry group Pooled Investment Fund, by the fund type the filer ticks. Single-deal vehicles (SPVs, “a Series of”, co-invest, syndicate, feeder) are counted apart. Parallel vehicles of one fund can each count when their names don’t mark them.
How many new venture capital, private equity and hedge funds start raising money each quarter, from the notices they file with the SEC. Fund formation leads investing: these are the managers who will deploy money over the following years.
What this chart reads
- New Private Equity Funds Filing Form D (quarterly count, SEC Form D)as “Private equity funds”latest 2026-07-01
- New Venture Capital Funds Filing Form D (quarterly count, SEC Form D)as “Venture capital funds”latest 2026-07-01
- New Hedge Funds Filing Form D (quarterly count, SEC Form D)as “Hedge funds”latest 2026-07-01
Sources
New Private Equity Funds Filing Form D (quarterly count, SEC Form D). Source: Palanor calculation from SEC Form D filings (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Form D data sets; public domain).
New Venture Capital Funds Filing Form D (quarterly count, SEC Form D). Source: Palanor calculation from SEC Form D filings (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Form D data sets; public domain).
New Hedge Funds Filing Form D (quarterly count, SEC Form D). Source: Palanor calculation from SEC Form D filings (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Form D data sets; public domain).
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.