September 30 Filings Show $35.4 Billion Across 225 Vehicles, More Than a Third From One Hedge Fund

One filer alone accounted for more than a third of everything registered on a single day, a concentration level that pushes an otherwise ordinary Wednesday into the top tier of filing days this quarter.

Filings for September 30, 2026 totaled $35.35 billion across 225 vehicles, the largest single-day dollar total this desk has tracked in weeks. Sander Gerber's Hudson Bay International Fund Ltd. filed alone for $12.64 billion, or 35.77% of the entire day's total, more than the next several filers combined. Hedge Fund entities led by dollars overall, $18.90 billion (53.47%) across 57 vehicles, followed by Private Equity Fund filings at $8.58 billion (24.27%) across 49 vehicles and Other Investment Fund entities at $7.59 billion (21.48%) across 64 vehicles. Venture Capital Fund filings again came in last on dollars, $278.7 million (0.79%) across 55 vehicles, the largest vehicle count of any fund type on the day while carrying less than one percent of its capital.

A Second Large Filer Family Behind the Day's Concentration

Hudson Bay's filing was not the only outsized entry. PGIF V, a private equity vehicle spread across a Luxembourg feeder ($3.77 billion) and a Delaware feeder ($700 million), added $4.47 billion combined, or 12.64% of the day's total, once the two parallel structures are counted together. Between Hudson Bay and PGIF V alone, 48.4% of the entire day's dollar volume came from two filer families, before accounting for anything else registered that day. A handful of other credit and buyout vehicles filled out the rest of the day's largest filings without approaching that scale: Strategic Equity Hedge Fund disclosed $1.11 billion, iCapital Millennium Fund II added $831 million, and EcoR1 Capital's offshore vehicle filed $812 million, each a reminder that a single day's list of large filers usually includes several genuinely distinct strategies rather than one dominant theme.

Baillie Gifford's Private Companies Fund III added another data point on the private equity side, filing $581 million through its main vehicle plus a further $29 million through a Luxembourg-domiciled parallel structure, a growth-equity strategy from a firm better known publicly for its long-only public equity funds. TPG's Apex Securitized Credit Fund rounded out the day's largest credit-strategy filings at $565 million.

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

Zero-dollar filings held at 45 of 225, or 20.00%, in the middle of the 20-32% band this desk has recorded through most of the past several weeks, evidence that administrative and placeholder filings remain a steady share of daily volume. Sector tagging came in at 72 of 225, or 32.00%, one of the higher readings this desk has logged this quarter; real estate, biotech and life sciences, and energy and climate tags each appeared multiple times, though the overwhelming majority of filings, including Hudson Bay's $12.64 billion entry, still carried the generic "Generalist / Unspecified" label.

Four Venture Managers Worth Knowing

Venture capital's 0.79% dollar share against 24.44% of the day's vehicle count is the widest gap this desk has recorded between count share and dollar share in recent weeks, and understanding that gap starts with recognizing how differently a venture capitalist deploys capital compared with a hedge fund or buyout shop writing nine- and ten-figure checks. Four of the 55 VC filers today are worth knowing by name rather than folding into that aggregate statistic, and each gets the full profile treatment below: Farooq Abbasi's Preface Ventures, the enterprise infrastructure specialist that filed the day's largest VC raise across two parallel vehicles; Greg Sands's Costanoa Ventures, the Netscape-alumnus-led early-stage firm behind a new Los Angeles-focused vehicle; Corey Nobile's Fundomo, the husband-and-wife-founded deep tech fund that scaled past $500 million in assets within two years; and Andrew Vigneault's Flexcap Ventures, built by operators who have backed more than six unicorns at the seed stage.

What This Means for LPs and Founders

For LPs, a day this lopsided is a reminder that aggregate dollar totals on any single date say very little about where capital is actually flowing across the broader market; two filer families accounting for nearly half the day's total is a data quirk of concentrated institutional credit and buyout activity, not a signal about venture or growth-stage appetite. For founders, the more useful read sits in today's four venture profiles rather than in the headline number, since dry powder raised by early-stage funds moves through the market on an entirely different timeline and check-size logic than a single hedge fund's multibillion-dollar filing. Founders raising a seed round or a first priced Series A should also weigh that the general partners actually writing checks at their stage are a small fraction of the names that show up in any single day's aggregate total.

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