Hongru Sun

Cooley advised The House Fund, a pre-seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on University of California, Berkeley, startups, on its $115 million Fund III.

Cooley advised private equity firm Industrial Growth Partners (IGP) on the closing of its sixth fund, Industrial Growth Partners Fund VI, with aggregate capital commitments of $1.2 billion. Lawyers Jordan Silber, Bobby Bao, Wyatt Christiansen and Hongru Sun led the Cooley team advising IGP. 

Cooley advised venture capital firm Upfront Ventures on its fundraise of more than $650 million to be deployed across three unique funds focused on various stages of the startup life cycle – the firm’s seventh early-stage fund, Upfront VII, which closed with $280 million in capital commitments; its third growth-stage fund, Upfront Growth III, with $200 million; and its Continuation Fund, with more than $175 million. Lawyers John Dado and Will Newsom led the Cooley team advising Upfront Ventures.