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is a busy bloke. He may have as Alphabet鈥檚 executive chairperson at the end of 2017, but, among other things, he continues to chair the U.S. Department of Defense鈥檚 , runs in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, and invests in startups both and through his venture capital fund, , for which he鈥檚 the cofounder and anchor LP.

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The firm, founded in 2010, has invested in the likes of , , , , and (which Crunchbase News recently covered). And Innovation Endeavors will have some fresh capital to commit to startups as the firm comes out of a period of transition.

Yesterday, Innovation Endeavors for its third fund, which is imaginatively named “Innovation Endeavors III LP,” a $333.5 million investment vehicle with 69 limited partners that first started raising in late October 2017. The fund appears to be oversubscribed, considering that its (dated November 14, 2017) stated a target fund size of $300 million.

Fund III also appears to be the firm鈥檚 largest to date. According to the firm鈥檚 most with the SEC, last updated in late March 2018, its second fund (“INNOVATION ENDEAVORS PARTNERS II, LLC”) had $236 million in gross asset value, and its first fund (鈥淚NNOVATION ENDEAVORS, LLC鈥�) had roughly $107.5 million in gross asset value at the time of filing.

All this comes during a time of transition for Innovation Endeavors, which in August 2017. As part of the merger, Marker (and its funds) would be renamed Innovation Endeavors. According to Crunchbase data, , closed in May 2015, was $207.7 million. The size of its first fund wasn鈥檛 available through Crunchbase or public disclosures.

According to a now-deleted blog post announcing the merger, Crunchbase News聽retrieved from the Internet Archive, Marker鈥檚 co-founding partners and , as well as Marker partners and , would join extant Innovation Endeavors GPs and to collectively manage the firm. As part of the merger, the blog post said, “Eric Schmidt will be a co-founder, a non-managing member and the anchor LP.”

According to Israeli business journalist Yasmin Yablonko, publishing in Globes Online, for a closed-door meeting on May 19th, two days prior to the signing date for Fund III鈥檚 paperwork, associated with his fundraising activities. As an aside, the “14 leading personalities” attending the meeting would include Israel Innovation Authority CEO Aharon Aharon, Professor Dan Ariely, and Microsoft Israel CEO Assaf Rappaport, among others.

On May 18th, though, Israeli tech publication 颁罢别肠丑听revealed that . Kop is the third person from Marker鈥檚 investment team to leave Innovation Endeavors since the merger. Both Yuval Schachar and Liat Aaronson , two months after the merger and just before the first LP check was signed for Fund III. These sorts of departures aren鈥檛 uncommon during fund mergers and restructuring.

Rick Scanlon is the only remaining member of Marker鈥檚 investment team listed on the paperwork for the third fund.

It鈥檚 no secret that Israel is home to strikingly talented engineering and business executive talent, so Innovation Endeavors鈥� merger with Marker could be seen as a great strategic move. With a third of a billion dollars to deploy in the US, Israel, and elsewhere, it will be interesting to see how the merged fund positions itself in the market and just how much influence Schmidt, an ostensibly non-managing member, exerts on the fund going forward.

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