private-markets

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Private markets content on WindowsForum covers investment access to high-growth AI companies like OpenAI, the record fundraising megadeals reshaping venture capital in 2025, and the tokenisation of private funds via LSEG's Digital Markets Infrastructure built on Microsoft Azure. Additional threads explore AI-powered CRM for M&A advisory, and the convergence of APIs, AI, and cloud in modern fund administration and fundraising. Recurring themes include the role of Microsoft as a strategic partner and cloud provider, the use of generative AI and Copilot in deal workflows, and the shift toward digital, interoperable infrastructure for private asset management.

  1. Can You Invest in OpenAI in 2026? The Microsoft Proxy, Private Access, and Risks

    OpenAI is still not a normal public stock that ordinary investors can buy on an exchange in 2026, even after its restructuring into a public-benefit-corporation-style for-profit arm and its evolving Microsoft relationship. The practical answer is therefore less satisfying than the hype cycle...
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  2. AI Funding 2025: Fortress Balance Sheets and Megadeals Reshape Venture Capital

    Silicon Valley’s fundraising bonanza of 2025 ended not as a trickle but as a tidal wave: the largest private U.S. companies pulled in a record haul of capital that year, with AI startups capturing the vast majority of the money and a handful of megadeals accounting for a disproportionately large...
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  3. LSEG's DMI on Azure: Tokenising Private Funds with Interoperable DLT

    London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a cloud-native, blockchain-enabled Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform built with Microsoft Azure to digitise the full private‑funds lifecycle — from issuance and tokenisation through distribution, settlement and ongoing servicing — and...
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  4. LSEG DMI on Azure Enables Tokenised Private Funds at Scale

    LSEG’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), built in partnership with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure, has officially launched for private funds — and the platform has already facilitated its first tokenised fundraise, marking a major step toward mainstreaming tokenization across...
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  5. Navatar AI CRM for M&A: Email, Slack & Outlook Intelligence via Agentforce 3

    Navatar’s new release promises a purpose-built, AI-powered CRM designed for M&A advisory teams that automatically captures emails, meetings, messages and documents, surfaces relationship intelligence inside the tools bankers already use (Outlook and Slack), and runs generative AI workflows on...
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  6. APIs, AI, and Cloud Power Modern Fund Administration and Fundraising

    The asset‑management tech beat has been busy this week: Hebbia announced an integration with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Anduin unveiled an Engagement Hub aimed at speeding GP fundraising and LP conversion, Alchelyst confirmed it will leverage cloud-native tools (including Finbourne’s stack)...
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