Morgan Creek Digital has raised the primary $60.9 million tranche of its $250 million goal for its second enterprise capital fund.

Morgan Creek discovered only to CoinDesk that the identical establishments from the primary fund, together with two public pension off funds, have elevated their investments inside the second by greater than twofold.

Together, Fairfax County’s Virginia’s Police Officer’s Retirement System and Employees’ Retirement System are investment a mixed $50 million inside the second fund, up from $21 million in its first fund that besieged February.

Commitments from different institutional buyers together with Wakemed Health and Hospitals, an coverage firm and a college endowment make up the left $10 million of the tranche.

In an interview with CoinDesk, Morgan Creek Capital confederate Anthony Pompliano mentioned the choice was taken to separate the complete $250 million elevate into tranches, with no date but set for its shut.

“We hear folk expression institutions aren’t interested, but this first close on with the conversations we’re having with tens of other institutions, shows that there is no lack of interest.”

The second fund can be primarily targeted on seed investments in fairness, like the primary fund, which enclosed investments in what Pompliano referred to as “blockchain infrastructure” firms like Bitwise and BlockFi.

“When you see the quality of the LPs in that fund, it speaks to the work that these infrastructure companies have done over the last 18 to 24 months,” Pompliano mentioned.

For its first fund, Morgan Creek raised $40 million, with stronger-than-expected investor demand main the corporate to exceed its preliminary fundraising goal of $25 million.

Combined with the Digital Asset Index Fund, a crypto index fund managed by Bitwise Asset Management, Morgan Creek has greater than $100 million property underneath administration.

“We raised the first fund for specific investments,” Pompliano mentioned, whereas the $250 million fund is “more institutionally sized.”