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Schroders Capital Private Equity Europe Direct IV reports $320 million sold

The fund has sold $320 million of an $892,480,000 offering, according to a Form D. Its first sale came on October 29, 2026.

DFX analysis, writtenNov 3

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Capital in motion

Where private equity is putting money to work

All transactions
Add-ons in the last 24 months by the industries of the platform that made them.
Business services159 add-ons40 platforms
9 other industries130 add-onsEducation, Aerospace, defense and government, Consumer products and retail, Energy, utilities and infrastructure, Financial services, Media and telecom, Distribution, Transportation and logistics, Real estate
Software119 add-ons71 platforms
Industrial services90 add-ons38 platforms
Tech-enabled and IT services66 add-ons39 platforms
Manufacturing53 add-ons33 platforms
Life sciences40 add-ons28 platforms
Consumer services37 add-ons12 platforms
Healthcare services36 add-ons26 platforms
Hardware and deep tech35 add-ons25 platforms

Business services drew the most add-ons in the last 24 months: 159 across 40 platforms, ahead of software and industrial services.

Each tile is an industry, sized by the companies its platforms added in the last 24 months. Select one to open those platforms.

Platforms adding
886
Add-ons, 24 months
1,684

Industry is known for 288 of the 886 platforms; a platform in two industries counts in both.

Opportunities emerging

The lists private equity teams work from

Live sizes, each read with the list's own filter. On the record: every row is a filed or announced fact. DFX inference: DFX estimates or ranks it, and the list says how.

Where the firms are

Private equity firms by city and state

Each page ranks the firms headquartered there by their deals in the last 36 months. Each listed place has at least 15 firms DFX classes as private equity headquartered there; DFX adds places in waves.

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By state

What are you looking for?

Deal team, business development, corporate development
I buy companies

Owners, holding structures and the firms already circling the companies you want.

  • Companies and their owners
  • Who else is looking
  • Transactions on the record
5,503 candidate companies with probable EBITDA of $3M or more
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GP, IR, placement agent
I raise a fund

The plans holding the fund before the one you are raising, who gates them, and the searches boards have opened.

  • Re-up prospects
  • Open searches
  • Commitments on the record
169 re-up prospects: a plan holding the prior fund while the next one raises
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Software, services and advisors with PE as a market
I sell to PE firms

Firms, their people and their portfolio companies, so a list is a market and not a guess.

  • Firms and people
  • Portfolio companies
  • Recent activity
7,929 firms
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Plans

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The methodology says what is measured, what is inferred, and what DFX does not claim.