Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Founded by Rolf Thung in 2004, the Dutch startup provides a SaaS whistleblowing solution for employees and third parties to report anonymously. Other startups include: Van Roey (BE) ; Symbio (DE) ; Addactis (FR/BE) The VC has already realised one early exit. Source: Silicon Canals Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Private equity-owned companies HealthComp and Virgin Pulse are planning to merge in a $3bn transaction in a bid to create a comprehensive employer health benefits platform. based Virgin Pulse’s tech platform includes digital health integrations like wearables in a bid to help health plan sponsors control costs. Providence, R.I.-based

Mergers and Acquisitions 130

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

Read More: Startup Shares Trading at 61% Discount Lure Venture Capital BCI, which invests the retirement savings of British Columbia’s public sector workers, returned 3.5% for the year ended March 31, compared to a 0.3% increase generated by its own internal benchmark, the fund said in the statement Tuesday. read more H.I.G.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A computer scientist and tech innovator, Gupta led the machine learning team for Google’s Smart Ads Bidding and Optimisation for six years, launching multiple products and models for boosting ad effectiveness and revenue.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 3, 2023

According to the report, which cites a number of unnamed sources, buyout firm Advent, part of the group that once owned Worldpay, is considering a bid. It develops strategies underpinned by technical expertise and implemented across the world. PYMNTS has reached out to FIS and GTCR for comment but has not yet received a reply.

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Stakes Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Hedge Funds 130

Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

The firm helps middle-market companies and startups navigate the opportunities for international expansion and sustainable transformation. read more Arcline tops KKR’s offer for Circor as bidding war intensifies Private equity firm Arcline Investment Management proposed to buy Circor International (CIR.N)

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So now whether you have other options and relatively safe options, and given the entire churn in the startup ecosystem in India with funding winter setting in, what is it that investors are looking for? The so-called ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Phenomena) is well and truly history.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2011

That's why, after taking a lot of meetings lately with business development and corporate development types looking to meet with startups, I find it so surprising that the efforts of these departments within big companies are so hidden.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

You don't want the "average" fund, because average funds don't do well--just like you don't want to model the average startup, because you might as well draw a big flaming hole in the ground. And no, the numbers don't exactly add up--but they're more than close enough for venture capital. It's also not the "average fund".

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Axial

OCTOBER 1, 2024

To find a comparable company, you’ll look at industry, size, growth, geography, capital structure (how much debt a business has), and a business’s lifecycle stage (whether the business is a startup, in its growth phase, or has reached maturity). However, for small businesses, conducting a comparable company analysis can be complicated.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Last year, its venture capital arm pulled out of Europe after setting up a $332 million fund in 2019 to focus on startups there. We have seen attractive opportunities over the last couple of years that would have been heavily bid had it not been for the market conditions,” she said. Omers had net assets totaling C$133.6

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: It was a very, very lucky landing for Tumblr, because Yahoo really was the only bidder and they were bidding against themselves, but they didn’t really know that. WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. Why is that?

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

Despite the challenges buyouts firms are facing, some investors are increasing their bets on the asset class in a bid to profit from cheaper valuations. “Our processes are quite sound . . . we we have those done by outside entities.” Indeed, you're not going to get anywhere near 6.8%

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

At the end of last year, we acquired AI Startup Headroom and deepened our bench of technical talent and leadership in this area. Additionally, Uma will improve its capabilities and extend its customer emphasis impact as it is released across more experiences on our platform.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 2, 2022

And, you know, I have bids out on …. RITHOLTZ: … Cars & Bids …. RITHOLTZ: That’s always — so the — I stopped even commenting on Cars & Bids or — or Bring a Trailer about this, but every time I see a favorite car come up with like 100 miles …. ELLIOTT: OK. ELLIOTT: Sure. ELLIOTT: Sure. ELLIOTT: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Matt Levine : 00:21:48 Like there are fascinating stories about like, this is not in public companies, this is not the problem at all, but like ride sharing startups like SoftBank was fi financing all these ride sharing startups, right? And it’s like, well yeah, they’re like subsidiaries of SoftBank, right?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I remember once, one of my colleagues says that a friend, one of the French Lazard Frerers partners was asked by a sort of junior, “How much should we tell our client to bid?” I sort of — I felt they were sort of ruthless, cynical, always looking for a deal. And the French partner said, “The price is right which hurts our client.”

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. I write a business plan for it. 00:06:52 [Speaker Changed] Like a legitimate, like it, like it’s a freestanding entity. Like, 00:06:56 [Speaker Changed] Like, you know, it’s a business.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

We spent weeks, night and day, studying it, decided it wasn’t a good deal, decided not to bid, which I’m fine with. And then when we decided not to bid at 90, it eventually went up to, you know, 111 or something like that. And you know, so we looked at it very hard, decided not to bid.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

That was like, during the pandemic, I bought them, one for home and one for the office through a Kickstarter startup. And that doesn’t happen when mortgage rates double, right? MILLER: Yeah, I got the camera that hangs down in the center of the screen, It’s very small so it doesn’t block anything.

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Insight Partners

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Companies like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Nutanix, and CDW-G rely on Govly to identify opportunities to sell to the government and to collaborate with their channel partners to prepare and submit bids. Over 200 companies use Govly to network with partners, identify opportunities and collaborate on submitting bids.

Companies 52

Companies Bidding Funds Startups 52

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2025

As the artificial intelligence races heated up, big tech companies and start-ups alike rushed to buy or rent as many of Nvidia's high-performance GPUs as they could in a bid to create better and better models. First, some are skeptical that the Chinese startup is being totally forthright in its cost estimates.

Hedge Funds 245

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This year, we saw significant experimentation on the economic model for AI applications, as the ecosystem worked on addressing some major questions: How do you correlate the economic value generated or costs saved with pricing strategies for incumbents and startups?

Investors 52

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In its bid to reassure financiers, Northvolt nixed a planned expansion of its main plant in Skelleftea in northern Sweden and, in October, replaced the factory’s manager. In this latest funding round, VW basically told us that they are not able to continue to capitalize us,” Carlsson said on Friday.

Pension Funds 59

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

He launches Wallstrip in the early 2000s and before you know it, he’s in the middle of a bidding war with a bunch of different people, theStreet.com and CBS wanting to buy it. I guess there’s a competitive bidding going on. RITHOLTZ: Fred says hit the bid. Howard has had like really this shockingly blessed career.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

What are the advantages to being an individual making single decision investments into a startup? How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? 00:19:00 [Speaker Changed] I mean, that’s a well established mature, if you could say mature startup region, correct.

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