CalSTRS
Public pension plan Still adding venture funds
CalSTRS reports 44 venture funds, $3.6B in all.
Holdings are from its report as of June 30, 2025. That is more than a year ago: it may have added or sold funds since. “Still adding venture funds”: its newest venture fund is a 2025 vintage, within 3 years of 2025.
The numbers
| Vintage | Venture funds |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 |
Updates from CalSTRS
Largest venture holdings
From its report as of June 30, 2025.
| Fund, as reported | Manager | Vintage | Commitment |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Enterprise Associates 16, LP | New Enterprise Associates | 2017 | $300M |
| New Enterprise Associates 17, L.P. | New Enterprise Associates | 2019 | $225M |
| New Enterprise Associates 10, L.P. | New Enterprise Associates | 2000 | $200M |
| TCV VII, L.P. | TCV | 2008 | $200M |
| TCV XI, L.P. | TCV | 2021 | $200M |
In the app: 39 more venture funds. Open CalSTRS in LP Intelligence for every fund it holds and how to reach it, or find the LPs that back firms like yours.
How it invests
Long-term capital: it backs its managers again at least as often as the median LP that reports fund by fund, and stays with them longer. It backed 80% of its managers again when they raised a later fund (128 chances), and stays with a manager 6.8 years on average.
From its own report and published commitments. How it invests in LP Intelligence: whether it kept committing through 2022–23, how much goes to managers on Fund I–III, and what it committed to lately.
Recent commitments
| Date | Fund, as published | Manager | Commitment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | Apollo Fund XI | — | $400M | Document |
| June 2026 | ICG Europe IX | — | $115M | Document |
| May 2026 | Blackstone Energy V | — | $300M | Document |
| May 2026 | Pinegrove SIF XII - Early | — | $50M | Document |
| May 2026 | Pinegrove SIF XII - Scale | — | $50M | Document |
| April 2026 | CapVest VI | — | $205M | Document |
| April 2026 | Emerging Venture Managers VII Follow-on (FKA Sapphire) | — | $125M | Document |
| April 2026 | Permira IX | — | $350M | Document |
| April 2026 | Lone Star XIII | — | $400M | Document |
| April 2026 | Tiger Global PIP XVII | Tiger Global Management | $100M | Document |
| April 2026 | Spark Capital IX | Spark Capital | $30M | Document |
| April 2026 | Spark Capital Growth VI | Spark Capital | $70M | Document |
The latest 12 of 23 commitments from the last 24 months to private equity and venture funds, as CalSTRS published them. Dates are the month only: the plan gives no day. Amounts are commitments as the plan reports them. What this plan publishes · every plan’s recent commitments.
LPs nearby
Within 100 miles, by city: a trip to one can take in the others.
- CalPERS
- Kelly Foundation
- Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association (CCCERA)
- The David & Janyce Hoyt Family Foundation
- Travers Family Foundation
- T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation
- Simpson PSB Fund
- General Service Foundation
106 LPs within 100 miles in all: see them on the map.
How to submit
Emerging-manager program: Private Equity Emerging Manager Program, run by Sapphire Partners (CalSTRS New and Next Generation Manager Fund); HarbourVest Partners (Lower Middle Market program); Muller & Monroe Asset Management. It considers First, second, or third institutional fund.
In its words: “To qualify as a private equity emerging manager a firm must be a legally structured entity, have a private placement memorandum in place, be raising a first, second or third institutional fund, and not exceed certain fund size limits; CalSTRS defines a private equity emerging manager as one with AUM of $1.5 billion or less. Its private equity emerging manager investments are made largely through separately managed accounts run by fund-of-funds managers.”
Read from its own pages on October 19, 2026: calstrs.com/diversity-in-the-management-of-investments, calstrs.com/files/45fdc0353/DiversityInTheManagementOfInv…. Programs change; its site is the record.
About this data
Holdings as this LP reports them, fund by fund. Amounts are its commitment to each fund. Fund performance it reports is on each firm’s page. As of June 30, 2025. Source: CalSTRS Private Equity Portfolio Performance. Funds are linked to a manager by name; a match can be wrong, and the original filing is the record. How Hottub reads its sources.
Since-inception IRR as calculated by CalSTRS from its own cash flows with each partnership; CalSTRS does not label it net or gross; because it is computed from CalSTRS's own contributions and distributions, it is after the partnership's fees and carried interest. CalSTRS says IRRs in a partnership's first three years are not meaningful. CalSTRS reports no multiple: TVPI = (distributed + market value) / contributed and DPI = distributed / contributed are computed. IRR is blank for commitments with no capital contributed.