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APRIL 30, 2024

in June 2022, the current rate of 3.5% Private equity Have you ever read about a company that makes an interesting or compelling product only to learn that you can't invest because it's still private? Generally speaking, investing in private companies is off limits to most investors.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Rocket Lab was founded in New Zealand in 2006, and it became the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space with its launch of the Ātea-1 suborbital rocket in 2008. It launched six Electron missions in 2021, nine missions in 2022, and 10 missions in 2023. Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Blackstone Secured Lending Fund invests in underserved companies and sports a 11.2% dividend yield The Blackstone Secured Lending Fund is a business development corporation ( BDC ) that invests in private company debt to generate income for dividend-focused investors. According to S&P Global Capital IQ LCD, the U.S.

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JULY 11, 2024

However, it appeared caught off guard when the generative AI craze took off in late 2022. With 60% of funded generative AI start-ups and 90% of generative AI unicorns (private companies worth at least $1 billion) using its services, it has a strong foothold in this emerging market.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ispace and Hakuto Our next private company contender to duplicate Intuitive Machines' success is Japan's ispace (not to be confused with China's iSpace -- although I guarantee there will be confusion). In 2022, ispace attempted to land a Hakuto lander, but software glitches caused the lander to run out of fuel prematurely.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

In its first year as a public company, its shares had mostly traded above its $30 IPO price, but as with many companies over the past 12 months, Qualtrics has seen its market value plummet from a high of $28 billion in early 2021 to a low of around $5 billion at the tail-end of 2022, where it has roughly remained since.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

Well, it turns out that the Washington project, although owned and operated by Energy Northwest, would use SMRs manufactured by a private company called X-energy. We know this because, prior to the October investment, in 2023, X-energy's private market value was estimated at $1.05

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

This company is poised for success in the long run. Microsoft As mentioned earlier, the AI buzz started when ChatGPT was launched for consumers in November 2022. ChatGPT was developed by a private company called OpenAI, but tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a significant investor in OpenAI.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 26, 2023

One market analysis found that the cloud computing market is worth about $677 billion in 2023, up from $569 billion in 2022. Still, Google Cloud will likely see more elevated growth levels as it is smaller and is the cloud provider for around 70% of generative AI unicorns (private companies valued at more than $1 billion).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

government and its allies as a private company. Then a combination of a lofty valuation, unrealistic expectations, and gale-force macroeconomic headwinds conspired to knock Palantir down a peg or two in 2021 and 2022, ultimately shaving as much as 84% off the stock's value.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

from 1965 to 2022, smashing the S&P 500 's total return of 9.9%. During that time, American Express outpaced its larger competitors by market cap, Mastercard and Visa , in stock buybacks (those companies repurchased 9% and 8%, respectively). billion for the third quarter of 2023.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 30, 2023

Artemis reports the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) grew ILS investments 35% in 2022: Large Canadian institutional retirement fund, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), grew its allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments in 2022, with the asset class nearing 1% of its overall portfolio by the end of the year.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

It sank hundreds of early stage start-ups, and Netflix was still a private company, so it was incredibly hard for it to access funding. In 2022, Netflix delivered $4.5 The widespread adoption of the internet enabled customers to order online, so they no longer had to visit brick-and-mortar stores like Blockbuster.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Earlier this year, the company announced a sizable layoff of employees and sold its logistics business for a hefty loss (following the acquisition of Deliverr in 2022). From June 2022 to June 2023 (the end of Shopify's Q2), Global-e is back on the mend, while Affirm is still down. Shopify announced a $1.34 At least this $1.34

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JULY 23, 2023

The island nation of Tonga spent five weeks in early 2022 with virtually no internet after the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano broke the subsea cable connecting the country to the outside world. Cable-Tapping As impressive as undersea cables are, they're also pretty vulnerable.

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MARCH 17, 2024

Private credit Around 4% of high-net-worth families' portfolios are invested in private credit, according to the KKR survey. What is private credit? It's where investors loan money to private companies. Private credit is often less risky than private equity. Are luxury goods a good investment?

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up In 2022, 3D submitted proposals at two shareholder meetings, calling on Fuji Soft to appoint outside directors recommended by the fund. Last September, 3D proposed that Fuji Soft go private.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The past couple of years have been tough for companies looking to go public. However, headwinds emerged early in 2022 when the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates, and the Ukraine-Russia conflict was just getting started. IPOs plummeted 41% as companies put IPO plans on hold and waited for more favorable conditions.

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Private Equity Professional

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The “Magnificent Seven” refers to a group of seven high-performing and influential technology companies in the U.S. Private companies continued to face challenges throughout 2024. The percentage of companies demonstrating EBITDA growth fell to 58%, the lowest since Q3 2022. and 8.0%, respectively.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Meta stock fell 76% from peak to trough between 2021 and 2022 and then roared back to life with a 194% gain in 2023. 30), the company delivered a record amount of revenue, and its net income (profit) surged 163% year over year. It also wholly owns private companies like Dairy Queen, Duracell, and GEICO.

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JULY 29, 2023

From its 2004 IPO to 2021, the tech company grew its revenue and net profit by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44%. However, the long streak of solid growth performance ended in 2022, when it reported its first decline in annual revenue of 1%. As the dominant social networking company in China with over 1.3

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AUGUST 4, 2024

In its fiscal 2022 (which ended Jan. 31, 2022), Snowflake's revenue soared by 106% to $1.1 Snowflake's billing is usage-based, and macroeconomic conditions and fears put enough pressure on customer spending to drag the company's net revenue retention rate from 178% in fiscal 2022's Q4 to 128% in fiscal 2025's Q1.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Veritas analysts Kathleen Wong and Maggie Wang, who had previously estimated Neighbourly’s intrinsic value at $33 a share, lowered their valuation to $25.50 – the upper end of TD’s range – and said in a note to clients they believed shareholders would push for a higher go-private price than the $20.50 that PCP offered.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

The NB Global Private Equity Access Fund was launched in December 2022 for professional and institutional investors and provides direct exposure to private companies in a semi-liquid evergreen structure. The minimum investment required for most share classes is €25,000.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

The financial services business was the big winner in Q2 as it generated $98 million in revenue, which was more than triple Q2 2022. A deep dive in valuation When assessing the value of a company, looking at certain metrics such as price-to-sales (P/S) ratio, price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, and market capitalization can be important.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Put another way, over half of Berkshire Hathaway's value derives from private companies or businesses it owns outright. In its 2022 annual shareholder letter, Buffett said that the float grew from around $114 billion at the end of 2017 to approximately $164 billion at the end of 2022, helped by Berkshire's acquisition of Allegheny.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In late 2013, Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners took the company private for $25 billion. That seemed to mark the end of Dell as a public company. However, as a private company, it divested its weaker businesses and streamlined its core PC, server, and data-storage businesses. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Elon Musk's SpaceX is probably the most famous space company on Earth that almost no one knows anything for certain about, financially speaking. with 64 launches year to date, SpaceX remains a private company. Preparatory to that, the company disclosed limited information about the state of its finances. Take SpaceX's $4.6

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

For years, the company was privately held and bankrolled by prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists -- most notably, Peter Thiel. Unlike other start-ups, Palantir remained somewhat elusive during its time as a private company. After a brutal sell-off in 2022, the stock rebounded sharply last year, surging by 167%.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It's aiming to accomplish America's first soft landing on the moon in more than 50 years -- and the first-ever successful moon landing by a private company. It proceeded to fine-tune its course to the moon, begin charging its batteries, and establish communications with the company's mission control center in Houston.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

The dispute with 3D centres around the prominent role of Fuji Soft’s founding family in the company’s management. 3D has been urging the company to improve its capital efficiency, which its says lags competitors. Last September, 3D proposed that Fuji Soft go private.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

In September, Reuters reported that Switch was contemplating a deal that would value the company at $40 billion. A group of investors took the company private in 2022 for $11 billion. Switch appeals to companies that require massive amounts of energy-intensive data storage. Will IPO activity materialize?

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The publicly traded Viad conglomerate has been a great home to GES for decades, and we are excited to start a new chapter as a private company with Truelink, who believes in our ability to continue delivering industry leadership, innovation, and growth.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In late 2022 and early 2023, this wasn't a great business to be in, and Alphabet struggled. Additionally, cloud computing is a key part of artificial intelligence (AI), as it allows companies to gather and store data easily and then use Google's computing resources to create powerful AI models. billion, with an operating margin of 9%.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Therefore, the most successful SaaS businesses like to see NRR of over 100%, as that implies that the company is coming out ahead in its churn rate. 31, 2022, the company reported revenue of $473 million, up 63% year over year. In 2021 and 2022, the company burned a combined $79 million in FCF.

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Insight Partners

APRIL 1, 2025

The first decision you must make is your endpoint: an initial public offering (IPO), acquisition by a public company, acquisition by a private company, or a private equity takeover? Each requires you to make different decisions as your company grows. Choose your exit: IPO or acquisition?

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Selling an individual or family-owned private company used to be like hitting a golf ball. More complex valuation metrics Private company valuation has become both less and more complex. © 2024 Private Equity Professional | September 10, 2024 Today it’s more like swinging at a 98-mph, split-finger fastball.

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