Private Equity Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

The report finds that 2024 was a challenging year for African startups, noting a 22% year-over-year (YoY) decline in deal value and 28% drop in deal volume. The 3% YoY increase in deal value and volume signals continued investor appetite for the asset class.

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Entrepreneur - VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

From music to skincare, learn the unconventional journey of Mike Einziger and Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 28, 2024

Beyond the basic business information, the application process required several more pieces of documentation: Financial worksheet: This detailed my business's financial status, including assets, liabilities, revenue streams, and other financial metrics that provide a snapshot of the business's health and potential for growth.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The main benefits of creating an LLC include: Liability protection: An LLC protects your personal assets by separating your business and personal assets. Check out the best small business loans for startups. For example, if your business is sued, your personal savings wouldn't be impacted. Ready to grow your small business?

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A Wealth of Common Sense

MARCH 27, 2023

On today’s show, we are joined by Brandon Arvanaghi, Founder and CEO of Meow, and Devon Drew, CEO and CIO of DFD Partners to discuss fintech solutions for small businesses and asset managers.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2024

This separation not only protects your personal assets from business liabilities, but can also offer potential tax benefits. Your journey from small startup to successful business is just beginning. If so, it doesn't have to break the bank. Unlike a sole proprietorship, an LLC draws a legal line between you and your business.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

Tim is a passionate serial entrepreneur who also owns a software startup, a consulting firm, and a portfolio of real estate. A successful small business , just like a nice house in a great location, is a valuable asset -- and seller financing lets you borrow against that value.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

History has shown that newly creates wealth shops the startup scene like a kid in a candy store. Before you start writing checks, just spend some time with startups. In fact, taking your own startup experience and assuming that all of your lessons learned apply to every startup is probably a really bad idea.

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FinSMEs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Backers included Black Edge Capital, CMS Holdings, Bitcoin Startup Lab, GBV, Cypher Capital, Trust Machines SPV, Samara Asset Group, Maple Block, Cogitent Ventures, and many more. Velar, a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based developer of a Decentralized Perpetual Derivatives Exchange (PerpDEX) on Bitcoin, secured $3.5M in seed funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

One of the underlying dynamics I see in the venture capital, tech, and startup world--and where some of its worst behavior comes from--relates to underlying assumptions about power and influence. I had one guy who was a managing director at a big asset manager write me like a full page and a half explaining why he wanted to meet.

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FinSMEs

JANUARY 15, 2025

For startups, these digital assets offer innovative ways to streamline operations, cut costs, and stay ahead of the competition. By leveraging blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, startups can optimize everything from payments to supply chain management, enabling faster growth and greater efficiency.

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FinSMEs

MAY 30, 2024

StructureFlow, a London, UK-based legal technology startup, raised $6M in Series A funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $15M, was led by FINTOP Capital, with follow-on investment from Venrex, part of Select Equity Group, a US asset management fund.

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FinSMEs

MARCH 9, 2024

Utila, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup provider of a platform that enables institutions to handle their crypto assets, raised an $11.5m in seed funding. in Seed Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 19, 2012

To me, there are a couple of basic reasons: 1) If nothing else, it's geographically closer to more startups than midtown firms like RRE, Greycroft, and Firstmark.so, *why not* put my office here? Eighty percent of Etsy's employees live in Brooklyn and I'd venture to say that half the startup community in general lives here.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2023

Have you ever worked with a startup before? Hiring someone who has worked in a startup in the past and who has an understanding of what it takes to succeed in a growing business can be a big benefit. If you succeed, your new employee may be an invaluable asset who plays a fundamentally important role in helping your business grow.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

But if interest rates come down more in the next six to 12 months, that could provide an accelerating boost to small businesses and startups. And if investors can no longer earn such an attractive return on their savings just by leaving their money in cash, it tends to make investors more willing to invest in riskier assets.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

So today, I will write about 2020 in the context of tech/startups/VC/crypto. Financial markets, flush with stimulus money that mostly found its way to brokerage accounts instead of the families that actually needed it, understood these changes quickly and we witnessed extraordinary gains in technology stocks and crypto assets.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

The asset could attract interest from private equity firms and strategic buyers, they said. Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up With a divestiture, L3Harris would join large aerospace and defence companies selling non-core assets. Raytheon Technologies Corp.

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AltAssets

AUGUST 27, 2024

Alternative asset manager Magnetar has raised a $235m venture capital fund focused on generative AI startups. The post Magnetar joins gen AI revolution with $235m specialist fund close appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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Insight Partners

JANUARY 7, 2025

Startups may need to focus on niche innovations or partnerships to compete effectively. As economic power shifts around, some category-leading incumbents will quickly adapt, leveraging their distribution, data assets, trust, and loved products to incorporate the latest AI functionality.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I was out trying to save my startup by talking to as many investors as I could. While my company may not have lasted, and even though I swore to myself that I wouldn't do another startup--this recently launched new venture is moving forward with the help of some fantastic partners. It's the black box of the startup world.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Designed to better support large funds managing over $1bn in assets under management, this upgrade has strengthened our platforms speed, security, and scalability, and reinforced our position as a technology leader in the private equity space.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. With that macro view in mind, what would that mean for tech, startups, and web3? Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 1, 2013

On top of that, I am building a portfolio--and I plan to be a long term investor in the asset class. Right or wrong, I''ve got an instinct that comes from being in and around startups and venture investing for over twelve years. Few investors understand the cost that raising money from them imposes on startups.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

With the fund, we are positioning the Africa50 Group to play a lead role in helping to tap into the more than $98 trillion of global assets under management,”AfDB’s President Akinwumi Adesina said in a statement from Africa50. and 18 institutional investors on the continent, Africa50 said in response to emailed questions.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital markets and the startup and tech sector more broadly. When economies recover and interest rates rise, the air will come out of the asset price bubbles that have built up and the go go markets will hit the brakes. This is the first of these two posts. Well, it happened in 2022.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The new funding will take Aramco’s overall venture capital allocation to $7.5bn which also includes Wa’ed Ventures, a $500m venture capital fund that focuses on the startup ecosystem in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Other industry players and investment funds have shown preliminary interest in acquiring the asset, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. a Japanese software startup specializing in human resource management. billion for the maker of audio, video and car navigation equipment, the people said.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

billion) in assets under management according to its website, has been active in investing in energy transition assets in the last few years. The investment has been made by APG Asset Management on behalf of ABP, while OMERS Infrastructure is investing on behalf of OMERS. OMERS, which has C$124.2 billion ($93.67

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FinSMEs

JULY 26, 2023

based venture capital firm focused on investments in breakthrough scientific startups, raised $245m for its third early-stage fund (fourth overall fund). The fund brings the venture capital firm’s total assets under management to more than $1.2 Prime Movers Lab, a Jackson, Wyo.-based

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 11, 2023

Basys.ai, a Cambridge, MA-based healthtech startup, raised $2.4m The round was led by Nina Capital with participation from Eli Lilly’s Lilly Ventures, Mayo Clinic, Two Lanterns Venture Partners, Asset Management Ventures, and Chaac Ventures. in pre-seed funding.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Teh report cites an announcement by the UK government as confirming that the investment is expected to create 4,000 jobs at a new facility in Blyth, Northumberland, a site previously owned by battery startup Britishvolt, which had intended to produce electric vehicle batteries before its collapse.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How would they know unless they surveyed a critical mass of startups all at the same stage now and then three years ago or so to compare? David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. The tablet market has absolutely exploded.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. 25 people I've actually placed at companies as part of a message of how I help startups. At least startups have accelerators, incubators, etc.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 12, 2024

 This week, we speak with Cathy Marcus , co-chief executive officer and global chief operating officer of PGIM Real Estate , which manages over $200 billion in assets. She is also co-chair of the board of directors of RealAssetX , PGIM Real Estate’s innovation lab aimed at accelerating advancement in the real assets industry.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has raised $650m for a new fund – West Street Life Sciences I – that will make investments in startups related to the life sciences sector, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Big Picture

MAY 5, 2023

NPR ) • How Silicon Valley’s Troubles Are Reshaping Venture Capital : After unprecedented dominance of US startup funding in the 2010s, the region has lost some ground. The trend underscores the scale of the country’s affordable housing shortage and the ripple effects it has on the wider economy. ( But it’s still No.

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