DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Barings
Barings
Corporate venture · probableLondonbarings.comSEC venture capital fund adviserone firm, 4 filing advisers
This firm files as 4 advisers on barings.com: Baring International Fund Managers (ireland) Limited, Barings (U.K.) Limited, Barings Australia Pty Ltd. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
corporate parent: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Importance
43
elevated
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
44
elevated
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
12
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdomadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 20 OLD BAILEY, London, EC4M 7BFadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 0044 0207 76286000adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://WWW.BARINGS.COM
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 26, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 3 (0 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $738Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Owners on Schedule A
- Barings Guernsey Limited (Sole Shareholder), E; Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (Sole Member), E; Barings Europe Limited (Sole Shareholder), E; Babson Capital Management LLC (Sole Shareholder), E; MM Asset Management Holding LLC (Sole Member), E; Massmutual Holding LLC (Sole Member), E
- business phone
- 0044 0207 76286000adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
no observed deals yet
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors: no observed deals yet
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 0
Funds and vehicles
2 reported, 2 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babson Capital Global Umbrella Fund Plc | Fund · ADV: Other Private Fund | 2011 form d first sale | Fundraising | $10B Mar 27, 2024 | 442 | $16B | Feb 10, 2026 |
| Babson Capital Global Investment Funds Plc | Fund · ADV: Other Private Fund | 2010 form d first sale | Fundraising | $12B Mar 27, 2024 | 200 | $27B | Jan 14, 2026 |
| Barings Investment Umbrella Fund | SPV or co-invest vehicle · ADV: Other Private Fund | 2022 adv first reported | Wound down | $59.0M May 8, 2020 | 89 | unknown | unknown |
| Targeted Return Fund Ap | SPV or co-invest vehicle · ADV: Other Private Fund | 2020 adv first reported | Wound down | $81.7M May 19, 2021 | 55 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
6 current, 11 departed
Rhian Williams
Platform and operationsSecretary · since May 1, 2022
Alex Sutherland
PrincipalDirector · since May 1, 2018
Jill Elyse Dinerman
PrincipalDirector · since May 1, 2021
Katherine Kemp
PrincipalDirector · since Jul 1, 2023
Martin Horne
PrincipalDirector · since Jul 1, 2023
Nicole Parker
PrincipalDirector · since Jul 1, 2023
11 departed (kept with end dates)
- AMY Callow · Secretary · Jan 1, 2021 to Mar 30, 2022 Inference
- Christopher Gerald Biggins · Chief Compliance Officer · Dec 1, 2007 to Mar 29, 2019 Inference
- Emma Louise Browning · Chief Compliance Officer · Jan 1, 2019 to Mar 30, 2020 Inference
- Nicholas Emrys Evans · Secretary · Dec 1, 2021 to Mar 30, 2023 Inference
- Elizabeth Ward Chicares · Director · Dec 1, 2012 to Mar 30, 2020 Inference
- Julian T Swayne · Director · May 1, 1996 to Aug 28, 2023 Inference
- Patrick Louis Hoefling · Director · Jan 1, 2020 to Aug 28, 2023 Inference
- Paul John Thompson · Chairman And Director · Sep 1, 2016 to Mar 30, 2020 Inference
- Richard John Kent · Director · Oct 1, 2017 to May 19, 2021 Inference
- Sheldon Maurice Francis · Director · Sep 1, 2019 to Aug 28, 2023 Inference
- Thomas Michael Finke · Director · Jul 1, 2016 to Mar 30, 2020 Inference
Investments on record
0 edges, 0 companies, 0 partner-attributed
No investment on record yet. Edges arrive from the firm’s portfolio page, financing announcements, and Form D board seats.
Co-investors
0 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
No co-investor relationship yet: these are derived only from rounds and portfolio listings the graph has seen both investors on.
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
25 dated events
- Aug 28, 2023Julian T Swayne (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Aug 28, 2023Sheldon Maurice Francis (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Aug 28, 2023Patrick Louis Hoefling (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Jul 1, 2023Nicole Parker joined Schedule A of Barings as Director
- Jul 1, 2023Martin Horne joined Schedule A of Barings as Director
- Jul 1, 2023Katherine Kemp joined Schedule A of Barings as Director
- Mar 30, 2023Nicholas Emrys Evans (Secretary) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- May 1, 2022Rhian Williams joined Schedule A of Barings as Secretary
- Mar 30, 2022Targeted Return Fund Ap no longer reported on Form ADV by BaringsFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceTargeted Return Fund ApSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2022Barings Investment Umbrella Fund first reported on Form ADV by Barings (Other Private Fund), GAV $82,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactBarings Investment Umbrella FundSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2022AMY Callow (Secretary) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Dec 1, 2021Nicholas Emrys Evans joined Schedule A of Barings as Secretary
- May 19, 2021Richard John Kent (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- May 1, 2021Jill Elyse Dinerman joined Schedule A of Barings as Director
- Jan 1, 2021AMY Callow joined Schedule A of Barings as Secretary
- Mar 30, 2020Elizabeth Ward Chicares (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Mar 30, 2020Targeted Return Fund Ap first reported on Form ADV by Barings (Other Private Fund), GAV $86,493,441Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactTargeted Return Fund ApSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2020Thomas Michael Finke (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Mar 30, 2020Emma Louise Browning (Chief Compliance Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Mar 30, 2020Paul John Thompson (Chairman And Director) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Jan 1, 2020Patrick Louis Hoefling joined Schedule A of Barings as Chief Financial Officer
- Sep 1, 2019Sheldon Maurice Francis joined Schedule A of Barings as Director
- Mar 29, 2019Christopher Gerald Biggins (Chief Compliance Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Barings
- Jan 1, 2019Emma Louise Browning joined Schedule A of Barings as Chief Compliance Officer
- Oct 5, 2018Barings first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Corporate venture (probable, 80%, cls-1)corporate parent: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Evidence
33 observations from 2 sources