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StepStone Partner Adair Newhall will be joining Andrew Fink of Kirkland & Ellis for a fireside chat at the NVCA Strategic Operations & Policy Summit on October 15 in Washington, DC.

The summit offers a forum for senior venture leaders to exchange perspectives on policy, operations, and firm management. If you'll be at the summit, we invite you to join the session.

Gary Gipkhin, Managing Director at StepStone, will be speaking at LPGP Connect Private Debt Los Angeles on October 29 as part of the opening keynote panel, Private Debt in 2026 and Beyond: Navigating Rate Cycles, Capital Flows & Market Dislocations.

The discussion will explore how LPs and GPs are recalibrating private credit allocations, where investors are finding the most compelling risk-adjusted opportunities, and how growing capital inflows are reshaping competition, underwriting standards, and portfolio construction across the asset class.

StepStone will take the stage at SuperReturn Europe in Amsterdam, 3-6 November, with four team members joining discussions on the conditions shaping European private markets and the opportunities ahead. If you'll be attending, here's where you can find them:

- Srdjan Vlaski will join the panel Collateral catalysts: the growth of asset-backed lending in Europe on Tuesday, 3 November at 13:55, discussing the role of asset-backed lending in today's market environment and how emerging asset classes are shaping the opportunity set.

- Fabian Körzendörfer will speak on The evergreen era: assessing the impact of flexible fund models on Tuesday, 3 November at 15:45, exploring investor sentiment, liquidity management and the evolving design of evergreen fund structures.

- Philippe Ferneini will be a panelist on Secondaries in the spotlight: Europe's continuation vehicle revolution on Wednesday, 4 November at 15:45, examining how continuation vehicles and secondaries solutions are evolving to meet investors' liquidity needs.

- Bernard de Backer will join Machine learning, human gains: the usage of AI in PE processes on Thursday, 5 November at 11:10, sharing views on how firms are applying AI across sourcing, due diligence, portfolio management and risk assessment.

StepStone is excited to welcome the 2026 First Step cohort, the newest members of our full-time early careers program, as they embark on their professional journey with us.

Many of these talented individuals have already demonstrated exceptional capabilities during their time as interns, and we are excited to support their continued growth as they contribute to our ongoing success.

We look forward to seeing the impact they make across the firm and wish them a strong start as they begin this next chapter at StepStone!

StepStone and @PitchBook have launched SPI Deal Benchmarking, now generally available within the PitchBook platform.

As part of the partnership, StepStone’s deal-level benchmarks are accessible through both PitchBook and SPI by StepStone, helping investors analyze performance drivers with greater precision across private equity buyout, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure.

The combined offering brings together aggregated, anonymized data to support more consistent benchmarking, enhance transparency, and enable more robust analysis across private markets.

View the full press release here: bit.ly/4uLvVFU

Please join us in congratulating Greg Wallem and the other members of StepStone's 2026 partner class!

Greg joined StepStone in 2011 and is based in La Jolla. He is a member of the Venture Capital and Growth Equity Team.

Please join us in congratulating Carson Kvaternik and the other members of StepStone's 2026 partner class!

Carson joined StepStone in 2010 and is based in La Jolla. He is a
member of the Private Equity team.

Please join us in congratulating Aditya Fontana-Raina and the other members of StepStone's 2026 partner class!

Aditya joined StepStone in 2014 and is based in New York. He is a member of the Private Equity team.

Congratulations to StepStone Partner and Head of EMEA Real Estate Josh Cleveland on being named one of the “20 Most Influential in Real Estate 2026” by Private Equity News.

The annual list recognizes senior leaders shaping the direction of real estate investing across Europe through performance, innovation, and market impact. A key factor behind the recognition includes the successful close StepStone Real Estate’s fifth secondaries fund at $3.8b, with an additional $1.5bn in co-investments, together marking the largest real estate secondaries fundraise to date, and exemplifying Josh’s ability to deliver meaningful results and navigate an evolving market with discipline and insight.

Quick Takes: StepStone’s Geoff Dolan and Ariel Goldblatt discuss why co-investing remains an all-weather strategy, driven by relationships, speed and data.

We're excited to officially welcome our full-time analyst class, joining us through the 2025 First STEP Program, to StepStone offices across the US.

This talented group of early-career professionals is stepping into the world of private markets with curiosity, drive, and foundational skills built through academic and leadership experience. The First STEP Program provides hands-on exposure and structured development opportunities that set the stage for long-term success.

We're proud to invest in the next generation of professionals, and we can't wait to see what they'll accomplish.

#StepStoneFirstSTEP #StepStoneEarlyCareers #FutureLeaders

#STEPVC is proud to support @HypernativeLabs in their $40M Series B, co-led by @1011vc and Ballistic Ventures, alongside @Boldstartvc and IBI Tech Fund.

As a real-time security platform protecting $100B+ in Web3 assets, Hypernative is addressing one of the sector’s most urgent challenges: security. In 2024 alone, over $2.2B has already been lost to hacks and fraud — a clear signal that prevention must take priority.

This funding will accelerate Hypernative’s product innovation across fraud detection, AI model enhancement, and expert support — all toward building a comprehensive security layer for the Web3 ecosystem.

We're committed to backing visionary teams solving foundational problems. Congratulations to the Hypernative team on this milestone — we look forward to what’s ahead.

🔗 Axios coverage: buff.ly/EBfyOdD
🔗 Company blog: buff.ly/ZUvKsi7

We are pleased to share that we partnered with @McKinsey to provide data and insight for their Global Private Markets Report 2025. The report leverages SPI by StepStone’s data and custom analysis, as well as findings from our private equity co-investment GP survey.

📄 Check out McKinsey’s full report: mckinsey.com/industries/pri…

💡 Learn more about SPI by StepStone’s industry-leading data platform here: bit.ly/410K6JH

🔎 Read about our PE co-investment survey findings: bit.ly/3NeBedp

#SPIbyStepStone #PrivateEquity

Please join us in congratulating Stephen West and the other members of StepStone's 2025 class of partners and managing directors!

Stephen joined StepStone in 2021 and is based in Baltimore. He is a member of the Venture Capital and Growth Equity team.

#VCGrowth #Promotion | @Nasdaq

Please join us in congratulating Remo Kämpf and the other members of StepStone's 2025 class of partners and managing directors!

Remo joined StepStone in 2016 and is based in Zurich. He is a member of the Private Debt team.

#PrivateDebt #Promotion | @Nasdaq

Adair Newhall, Partner at #StepStone, is headed to Whistler, British Columbia for Solve FSHD’s flagship conference. He’ll be joining a fireside chat to discuss the opportunities and challenges of investing in innovative therapies for FSHD, highlighting how capital can help accelerate breakthroughs.

Learn more about Solve FSHD: solvefshd.com

We recently held our StepStone 2025 Venture and Growth Annual Meeting in Boca Raton, FL—an event that brought together our entire venture and growth ecosystem. We're incredibly grateful to our supportive investors, GPs, CEOs, and friends of the firm for their continued partnership. 🌴

This year's event featured engaging discussions on key industry trends, including a shift to deep tech and defense tech, the future of AI, advancements in defense technology, a futurist’s glimpse into tomorrow’s world, and how firms are evolving in a rapidly changing market. Special thanks to our guest speakers for their participation and for continuously making a meaningful impact on the VC ecosystem. 🙏

Brad Gerstner, @altcap
@AnjneyMidha, @a16z
@KTmBoyle, @a16z
Matt Markel, @epirus
Babak Siavoshy, @anduriltech
@MavrookasD, @Saronic
Leon Chen, The Column Group
Delian Asparouhov, @foundersfund
Drew Oetting, @8vc
@reidRMC, @CRV
@ttunguz, @Theoryvc
Barry Eggers, @lightspeedvp

#STEPVC #StepStoneVC #AGM #AnnualMeeting

Amazing work from our port. co. @KodiakRobotics! Delivering the first customer-owned driverless trucks to Atlas Energy Solutions is a monumental step for logistics innovation. Revenue-generating, scalable, and transformative. Here’s to changing the game, one truck at a time.

Thank you to everyone who joined us earlier this week in Singapore for the StepStone Luncheon: The Case for Investing in AI through Venture Capital.

We had an engaging discussion on the fundamentals of venture capital, the importance of VC allocation in a diversified investment portfolio, and the transformative investment opportunities in artificial intelligence that exist in the VC space.

A special thanks to our speakers and attendees for contributing to a dynamic conversation about investing in the future of technology.

#StepStoneVC #AI #VentureCapital #InvestmentOpportunities

We are honoured to share that StepStone Private Markets* fund (SPRIM Lux) has been selected as a finalist in the IPEM Wealth Awards for Best Private Market Product Award. SPRIM Lux seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation, spanning private equity, real assets and private debt. This global award recognises outstanding achievement, excellence and innovation across wealth management and private capital. The winner will be announced at an exclusive awards show on January 28-30 in Palais des Festivals, Cannes.

#IPEM #PrivateWealth #StepStonePrivateWealth

*StepStone (Luxembourg) SCA SICAV-RAIF – StepStone Private Markets