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Deal sourcing guide for venture capital 2025: Best practices for today’s marketP

Private Equity Wire

With a 76% increase in the number of funds in operation from 2015 to 2023, the pressure to identify and close deals has never been higher. Below are three key best practices for deal sourcing in 2025: 1. However, as economic conditions improve and interest rates stabilize, 2025 is expected to be a strong year for dealmaking.

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Main Street Capital (MAIN) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

As part of these efforts, we are very pleased with our progress in exploring a potential listing of the shares of MSC Income Fund, a non-listed BDC advised by our External Investment Manager. We've also continued to produce positive results for our asset management business.

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The subtle complexity of best-practice pension management

Top 1000 Funds

Identifying best practice in pension management is not a straightforward task. As much as asset allocators may want there to be a definitive answer, differences in size, mandate and resources between different pension funds means an investment approach that works for one may not work for others.

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Rubicon Technology Partners Closes $1.7bn Fund IV, its Largest to Date

Private Equity Insights

Rubicon Technology Partners (“Rubicon”), a leading private equity firm focused on enterprise software investments, announced the successful closing of its latest fund, Rubicon Technology Partners IV (“Fund IV” or “the Fund”), at approximately $1.7bn.

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

Right on time, I’ve got a company from my first fund doing a roadshow right now that could net a big exit by the end of the year. I have two other companies in that first fund that, at one time, looked like they were sure winners that could return the fund. Turns out they have standard sized bets for funds of my size.

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The Problem with Startup Advice

This is going to be BIG.

Half the time, founders were pitching a completely different idea than what took off--so the VC who looks brilliant for funding the latest viral app really funded a B2B product that never took off. Try and figure out exactly what a startup had to show at the moment a VC chose to invest in them. Most startups fail.

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Alpine Investors Closes $3.4bn Deal to Support Apex Service Partners Growth

Private Equity Insights

With over 8,000 employees nationwide, Apex focuses on empowering its people to build a strong network of industry leaders who can share resources, best practices and expertise in order to deliver unparalleled service to customers. Fund IX invested $450m in Apex alongside the continuation fund.