Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The funds will focus on buyout and later-stage growth equity investments in middle market companies across Shamrock’s target sectors, seeking to capture Shamrock’s proprietary middle-market deal flow, thematic approach, and expertise, and value creation capabilities by utilising the same strategy Shamrock has implemented since 2001.

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JUNE 20, 2024

When I wrote this post about trying to measure the fundability of your startup, I kicked it off with, “You can’t” and proceeded to share all the ways that getting your company funded feels a bit like a craps shoot, while still trying find a method somewhere within the madness. Are you raising a size-appropriate fund?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Below, I'll cover a number of catalysts that could spur even further growth for Palantir while also calling out some risks the company faces. Now that Palantir is part of the exclusive index, I would not be surprised to see the company receive more attention from large financial institutions.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2023

The REIT has two big catalysts ahead that should increase its deal flow and ability to finance new investment opportunities. These deals enable companies to unlock the value of their real estate while providing them with the capital they can use to repay debt, expand their operations, or fund cash returns to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In particular, I've been looking closely at business development companies ( BDCs ). What are business development companies? Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. BDCs are pretty interesting. Well, not exactly.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

As markets move higher, one company looks especially intriguing to me: Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR). Let's dig into how Palantir is disrupting the AI market and why the company looks well-suited to dominate over the long term. Indeed, big tech certainly has a strong pulse on the AI market. Image source: Getty Images.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

PARTNER CONTENT The landscape of venture capital deal sourcing has evolved significantly over the past few years. Gone are the days of rapid-fire deals and a “growth-at-all-costs” mentality. This shift means that the competition for high-quality deals is intense, while the urgency to deploy capital remains high.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 10, 2024

As liquidity constraints put pressure on the private equity industry, the secondaries market is expected to grow substantially over the next twelve months, with fundraising and deal flow set to expand, according to Investec’s latest Secondaries Report, Charting a Course for Further Growth.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Perhaps in part as a result, in recent years, those who follow the technology sector have put extra scrutiny on companies claiming that they're poised to benefit from opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI). For a while now, one particular company with aspirations in the AI space has been at the center of many bearish narratives.

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DECEMBER 13, 2015

No VC has a magical stream of only high quality deal flow. I know this because I used to vet VCs for a living and they all pitch to their Limited Partners how many deals they see and how few they do. Plus, direct screening can be useful to a VC's future deal flow. Maybe they'll remember it for their next company.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Every single topic about running a company has been written about ad nauseum, there are incubators, accelorators, mentoring programs, events, talks, etc. We''ve done a lot to make sure startups get all the help we can get--and it''s leading to higher companies getting off the ground. But what about investors?

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Progressio SGR, the Italian private equity firm, is raising a new fund, Progressio Investimenti III, in response to LP demand and a doubling of proprietary deal flow over the past five years. As with previous funds, the money will predominantly be spent on proprietary deals and primary buyouts.

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MAY 10, 2020

If deal flow is slow, a VC will take a meeting if you and your team seem mildly interesting even if your product isn’t. Fundraising is a sales process for shares in the company. VCs are notorious for kicking tires. VCs take a meeting just to learn about an area. Or, you could blame the leads.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are investors allowed to come into deals that the fund does side by side with the fund? This creates a source of deal flow for investors who aren’t out there full time creating opportunities. In fact, those deals are actually set up as mini-funds. Access to the partner.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Park Square has previously provided financing to companies such as Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd and Trescal, and Doumar expects deal flow to continue increasing. He pointed out that while pricing has tightened, this has led to an uptick in transaction activity.

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MAY 5, 2023

I think it’s important in this era of building audiences and living in public to acknowledge that no one actually needs to explain the reasons why they’re making career moves or leaving a company. You can stop making new investments, but it will take years to actually work through your active portfolio companies.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

One, it usually implies that you’re going to start going cash flow negative to accelerate growth. Any company that takes on venture capital dollars is going to increase the risk that they’re going to have nothing to show for all their effort. Well, if you add it to your startup, it does a few things. That adds risk.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

I went back and calculated the number of companies in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio who have at least one founder who is female, from an underrepresented minority group, or LGBT. A whopping 17 of the 32 companies (53%) have founders that fit into those groups. VCs have an inflated sense of the value of their own time.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

In addition, the trend of fund sponsors seeking liquidity solutions for their limited partners through organized transactions is expected to continue to contribute to significant secondary deal flow. Source: PR Newswire Can’t stop reading? Source: PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to a press release, the fund seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing primarily in privately originated, floating rate, senior secured loans, and will target private equity sponsored and non-sponsored middle market companies in North America.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

retail net lease sector is large, it isn't big enough to supply Realty Income with all the deal flow it needs. That's why the company generates nearly 30% of its rents from "other" assets, including industrial properties and some large one-off transactions, such as casinos and vineyards. That's where the problem arises.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The release is currently available on the Investors section of the company's website. Therefore, these statements should not be relied upon as representing the company's views as of any subsequent date. It offers life science companies the ability to leverage Nanox.AI Then you’ll want to hear this.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2024

Yet despite the company's impressive growth, shares of C3.ai It's pretty clear the company has enjoyed steady momentum since AI became a focal point for the business world around the beginning of last year. This partner network has proven to be a good source of lead generation , as evidenced by the company's rising deal flow.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

IAIM aims to leverage the origination and proprietary deal flow capabilities of Investec’s direct lending team to deliver private market investment solutions for investors. In her previous role within Investec, she led cross-sector ESG research on UK listed companies. Forry has been with Investec for almost seven years.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The commercial business is just ramping up For years, one the biggest criticisms of Palantir was that the company was too reliant on government business and did not have enough of a presence in the private sector. The company can use these profits for further investments in research and development ( R&D ) and new product initiatives.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 17, 2024

PGIM Private Capital, the private capital arm of Prudential Financial $1.34tn global investment business PGIM, provided $7.5bn of senior debt and junior capital to more than 130 middle-market companies and projects globally in H1 2024. The first half of 2024 has been more stable for issuance than the same period last year.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The report cites Kevin Lu, a Partner at the firm and Chairman of Asia as confirming the launch of the new fund amid continuing growth in the secondaries market, which allows investors in private equity funds and private companies to make early exits to free their capital.

Private Equity Firms 98

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

They were willing to take on more complex transactions, from larger ticket sizes to multi-billion dollar listed company acquisitions. The latest deal flow shows how buyouts are evolving in this landscape, with direct lending acting as a significant feature of the market dynamics.”

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Investors in the Fund, which were a mix of numerous new investors as well as existing New Mountain Net Lease investors, include pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The company you work at could run into financial trouble and your budget could get cut. It’s very easy to get caught up in processing your day to day deal flow without leaving enough time to come up for air and do some research. Our resumes are sometimes out of our control.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Union Square Advisors, a technology-focused investment bank, is expecting to see an increase in technology sector deal-making in 2024, with recent positive momentum continuing over the course of the year. The report also notes that there is significant capital on the sidelines today that is available to be deployed.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 21, 2024

However, currently deal flow for alternative investment funds remains challenging due to different pricing expectations between buyers and sellers as well as geopolitical factors which also play a significant role.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

That isn't a huge deal, since it's normal for acquisitions to be lumpy. And the company has $2.6 billion in liquidity available to fund new deals, so closing acquisitions won't be an issue of investment capacity. But the company is not operating from a position of weakness and is, in fact, operating from a position of strength.

Deal Flow 130

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The combination of BMO’s broad investment banking platform and OHA’s private credit expertise has delivered enhanced deal flow and financing flexibility while adding value for borrowers and private equity sponsors. Harrington will continue to operate as a standalone company and be led by its current management team.

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MARCH 18, 2019

They’re building campuses, districts, buildings, spaces, as well as running new educational efforts and contests—basically anything they can think of to foster the growth of new and innovative companies. This isn’t the kind of thing your average high net worth individual who occasionally does a deal would know about.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

Thill's primary thesis was that there are better investment opportunities among big tech companies than Palantir, despite its progress in its market. Some short-sellers view Palantir as a glorified government contractor, given its heavy reliance on public sector deal flow. military and the governments of its Western allies.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The company's actual financial condition and the results of operations may vary materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Additionally, this call will contain references to certain non-GAAP measures, which we believe are useful in evaluating the company's performance. Then youll want to hear this.

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