New Venture Capital Funds This Week: October 26-30, 2026 Roundup

Between October 26 and October 30, 2026, our Form D data shows 178 venture capital vehicles reporting $1.76 billion sold. The week before, 208 vehicles reported $1.27 billion, so the count fell while the dollar total rose. Two large filings, SemiAnalysis Capital Fund I and Inspired Capital Partners IV, account for more than half the money. This roundup covers the numbers, the top funds, the size bands and what the week says about fundraising. A Form D shows what a vehicle reports as sold. It is not a closing announcement.

The Week in Numbers

• All fund types: 735 vehicles reporting $157.3 billion, made up of 195 hedge funds, 193 private equity funds, 178 venture capital funds and 169 other investment funds
• Venture capital: 178 vehicles and $1.76 billion, of which 47 reported $0 and 131 reported an amount
• Median reported amount among the 131: $1.0 million
• Week before (October 19-23): 208 vehicles and $1.27 billion

By our arithmetic, the dollar total rose about 39 percent while the count fell about 14 percent. The three largest filings made up roughly 59 percent of the week's venture dollars, so the total says more about a few funds than about the whole market.

Day by Day

• Monday, October 26: 20 vehicles, $612.6 million
• Tuesday, October 27: 35 vehicles, $641.7 million
• Wednesday, October 28: 40 vehicles, $172.4 million
• Thursday, October 29: 44 vehicles, $87.6 million
• Friday, October 30: 39 vehicles, $247.1 million

The first two days carried most of the money. Filings later in the week were more numerous but much smaller.

The Top Ten Venture Filings

1. SemiAnalysis Capital Fund I, LP: $500.0 million (October 26, Dylan Patel). Secondary reports describe a $400 million target, and we found no primary source
2. Inspired Capital Partners IV, L.P.: $450.0 million (October 27, Alexa von Tobel). The firm reported closing Fund IV in October
3. Light Street Beacon III, L.P.: $90.7 million (October 30, Glen Kacher)
4. S Capital IV, L.P.: $90.3 million (October 26, Haim Sadger). The filer is an Israeli firm, and we found no press coverage of this fund
5. Cosmos Fund I LP: $79.9 million (October 27, Michael Brendan McCord). We found no public detail on its strategy
6. Diffusion V3, LP: $70.0 million (October 28, Kristian Fredrickson), a companion filing to Diffusion ONE
7. Listen Ventures IV, LP: $44.7 million (October 29, Jeffrey Cantalupo)
8. Wind Point Partners XI Access Fund, L.P.: $40.2 million (October 30). Wind Point is better known as private equity
9. Kenro Capital I, LP: $37.5 million (October 30, Piyush Gupta)
10. U&I Ventures Fund I, L.P.: $32.2 million (October 28, Kimberly J. Moore). We found no public detail

We profiled Inspired Capital, Diffusion, Listen, Light Street and Kenro in earlier articles this week.

Funds Versus Deal-by-Deal Vehicles

• Deal-by-deal or SPV vehicles: 108 filings reporting $169.7 million, 12 at $0, median among those with an amount about $505,000
• Pooled funds (all other tags): 70 filings reporting $1.59 billion, 35 at $0, median among those with an amount about $8.3 million

More than six in ten venture filings were single-deal vehicles, but they accounted for only about 10 percent of the money.

Size Bands for the 70 Pooled Funds

• $0 reported: 35
• Under $1 million: 4
• $1 million to $10 million: 16
• $10 million to $50 million: 9
• $50 million to $100 million: 4
• Over $100 million: 2

Half of the pooled funds reported nothing. That usually means a new vehicle that has not yet reported an amount, so it is a count of intent and not capital.

Sector Tags

Sector tags are sparse, so treat this as a floor. Of 178 venture filings, 108 were deal-by-deal, 64 had no sector, and the rest carried one tag each or a few: space, aerospace and defense (3), biotech and life sciences (1, Epsilon Healthcare Innovation Fund II at $17.6 million), AI (1) and energy and climate (1). Defense vehicles under the Decimus Defense Fund name and a Spacestation Investments series were among the space and defense filings.

How Filings Compare With Announced Funds

Form D filings are one view of fundraising. Press trackers show another. Private Equity List's weekly tracker for October 19 to 25 counted 17 new private equity and venture funds with $20.6 billion in headline sizes, and said Blackstone and Pantheon made up 71 percent of it. That tracker covers announced funds across private equity and venture, so it is not comparable with our venture-only filing counts. The difference is useful: announced totals are dominated by a few large private equity names, while filings show the long tail of small venture vehicles that never make headlines.

What the Week Tells Founders

• Large AI and early-stage funds are still raising: two filings over $400 million show that capital exists for AI infrastructure and early-stage platforms
• Growth funds from hedge fund managers are returning, as Light Street's Beacon III shows
• Syndicates and SPVs dominate the count, so founders raising small rounds may find deal-by-deal capital faster than fund capital
• Secondary strategies are appearing, as Kenro Capital shows

How to Use This List

• Match stage: check whether a fund backs your stage before you pitch, since a Form D does not say
• Check the sponsor: search the manager's own website and press coverage for strategy and cheque size
• Prepare your data room, cap table and dilution model before you approach any fund
• Ask whether the firm expects to be lead investor and what its term sheet includes

What We Could Not Confirm

We could not confirm whether the amounts are final closes, what the unnamed vehicles will invest in, or the strategy of S Capital IV, Cosmos Fund I and U&I Ventures Fund I. Forms are deduplicated on issuer, filing date and amount, and feeder or parallel vehicles may repeat amounts, so totals can overstate the capital raised.

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