{"id":28567,"date":"2026-03-24T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=28567"},"modified":"2026-03-24T02:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:19:12","slug":"air-street-becomes-one-of-the-largest-solo-vcs-in-europe-with-232m-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=28567","title":{"rendered":"Air Street becomes one of the largest solo VCs in Europe with $232M fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">London\u2019s Air Street Capital has raised a $232 million Fund III with eyes set on backing early-stage AI companies across Europe and North America, <a href=\"https:\/\/press.airstreet.com\/p\/fund-iii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the firm announced<\/a> Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check sizes will range from $500,000 to $15 million, with select growth investments reaching up to $25 million. Led by Nathan Benaich, this raise makes Air Street one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c9e5d053-7b5b-47ed-9027-f8bfb3793bb9?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Europe\u2019s largest solo VC funds<\/a>. It\u2019s already backed notable AI unicorns like Black Forest Labs and ElevenLabs, and has seen exits from companies like Adept (sold to Amazon) and Graphcore (sold to SoftBank).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firm now has $400 million in assets under management, the FT reported. Its Fund II was $121 million, up from the $17 million raised for Fund I back in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/23\/air-street-becomes-one-of-the-largest-solo-vcs-in-europe-with-232m-fund\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London\u2019s Air Street Capital ha&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[16383,1127,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}