October 1 Filings Show $26.3 Billion Across 200 Vehicles, Nearly a Third From One Infrastructure Fund

A single filer claiming close to 30% of an entire day's capital formation total is unusual even by the standards of a market where concentrated filings are common. October 1 cleared that bar with room to spare.

Filings for October 1, 2026 totaled $26.33 billion across 200 vehicles. Ares Core Infrastructure Fund, directed by Andrew Spence, filed alone for $7.705 billion, or 29.26% of the entire day's total, more than the next several largest filers combined. Other Investment Fund entities led by dollars overall at $10.16 billion (38.59%) across 34 vehicles, followed by Hedge Fund filings at $8.94 billion (33.95%) across 68 vehicles and Private Equity Fund entities at $7.07 billion (26.84%) across 49 vehicles. Venture Capital Fund filings again came in last on dollars, just $162.3 million (0.62%) across 49 vehicles, despite accounting for 24.50% of the day's total vehicle count.

Three Large Filer Patterns Behind the Day's Concentration

Ares Core Infrastructure Fund's filing was not the only notable entry built around scale or structure. Oaktree Special Situations Fund IV, L.P. and its parallel vehicle, both signed by Oaktree co-founder Howard Marks, added $1.29 billion and $967.8 million respectively, a combined $2.26 billion, or 8.57% of the day's total, once the two structures are counted together. Everview Partners Real Estate Fund A and Fund B, both signed by William D. Rahm, filed an identical $1.02 billion each, a combined $2.04 billion (7.76%), a real estate-focused filing family distinct from the credit and infrastructure vehicles that otherwise dominated the day. A five-series AllianceBernstein Delaware Business Trust complex, each series signed by trustee Wilmington Trust Company, added a further $2.27 billion (8.64%) spread across separate research-insights and international-equities strategies, a multi-series trust structure built to let a single sponsor register several distinct mandates under one filing umbrella rather than a single large raise.

Where the Day's Zero-Dollar and Sector-Tagging Rates Landed

Zero-dollar filings held at 40 of 200, or 20.00%, consistent with the 20-32% band this desk has tracked through most of the past several weeks. Sector tagging came in at 102 of 200, or 51.00%, the highest reading this desk has logged this quarter and more than double the rate seen on some recent filing days; Real Estate/PropTech, SPV/Deal-by-deal, and Fintech/Crypto/Web3 tags each appeared multiple times among the day's larger filers, a reminder that sector-tagging rates can swing meaningfully day to day depending on which filer families happen to register.

Four Venture Managers Worth Knowing

Venture capital's 0.62% dollar share against 24.50% of the day's vehicle count extends a pattern this desk has now logged across multiple consecutive filing days: a venture capitalist at the early stage simply deploys capital on a different scale than an infrastructure fund or credit shop writing nine- and ten-figure checks. Four of today's 49 VC filers are worth knowing by name rather than folding into that aggregate statistic, and each gets the full profile treatment below: Crane US I, L.P., the London firm backing enterprise and deep tech founders across Europe and Asia-Pacific; Bryan Baum's AJRX II, the latest vehicle from the K5 Global co-founder known for early stakes in Uber, Airbnb and Slack; Kristin Baker Spohn's Atlas Growth Select Fund, a growth-stage vehicle built to compete with VC megafunds while keeping a smaller portfolio; and David Seldin's Anzu Partners, the deep-tech investor behind a dedicated SPV for AI-chip maker EnCharge AI.

What This Means for LPs and Founders

For LPs, a day this concentrated around infrastructure, credit and real estate capital is a reminder that aggregate dollar totals on any single date reveal more about which large institutional sponsors happened to register that day than about where venture or growth-stage capital is actually flowing. For founders, today's four venture profiles are the more useful read than the headline number, since dry powder raised by early-stage and growth funds moves through the market on an entirely different timeline than a single infrastructure fund's multibillion-dollar filing. Founders evaluating a term sheetfrom any of today's four profiled managers should also note how differently each structures its checks, from Anzu's single-company SPV to Atlas Growth's megafund-scale ambitions.

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