New VC Funds This Week: Oct 5-9, 2026 Roundup

Founders often assume that a busy filing week means more money headed to startups. This week shows why that assumption fails. Between October 5 and October 9, 2026, 985 distinct fund vehicles reported a combined $333.6 billion, and venture funds were 235 of them but only $4.35 billion of the total.

The Week by Fund Type

• Other investment funds: 256 vehicles reported $127.8 billion, or 38.3% of the dollars. This is a catch-all group that includes real asset and credit vehicles.
• Private equity funds: 289 vehicles reported $118.4 billion, or 35.5%. GTCR Fund XV filed four parallel entities that each show the same $14.22 billion, so that figure is one shared total, not four separate raises.
• Hedge funds: 205 vehicles reported $83.1 billion, or 24.9%.
• Venture capital funds: 235 vehicles reported $4.35 billion, or 1.3% of the dollars and 23.9% of the vehicles.

The single largest filing of the week was McCarthy Investment Company, LLC at $59.8 billion on October 9, and Friday alone accounted for $202 billion of the week's total. Reported totals count each vehicle's own filing, so parallel and feeder vehicles that repeat a number inflate the sum.

Where the Venture Money Sat

Within venture, the dollars were concentrated in a handful of firms. Diffusion ONE, LP reported $1.25 billion, DCVC VII reported $653.5 million, and TCGX Asia Life Sciences Fund I reported $600 million. Below that, Swish Ventures, Team8, F2 Venture Capital, Future Ventures and Story Ventures filed vehicles between $60 million and $220 million. The remaining venture filings were mostly small funds and single-deal vehicles.

A further 44 venture filings reported no amount raised. A new filing with no amount can mean a fund is open and still raising, though it is not a guarantee.

What This Means for Founders

For a founder, the useful number is not the headline total but the count of venture vehicles with fresh capital, since those are the firms most likely to be writing checks. A fund that filed this week has a new pool to deploy, and it is usually looking for companies in its stated stage and field. When you build a target list for a seed round or Series A, start with firms that opened a vehicle in the last quarter, and ask each prospective lead investor how much of its fund is still unallocated.

Four of this week's venture filers are profiled in separate articles: Team8, Swish Ventures, BankTech Ventures and Story Ventures.

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