Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 22, 2025

This fund invests in private companies that provide products and services to critical infrastructure owners. Furthermore, $150m was allocated to Francisco Partners FP VII NYSCRF Co-Investment Fund. In its real assets portfolio, NYSCRF earmarked $250m for Oaktree Capital Managements Power Opportunities Fund VII.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 27, 2025

Key transactions included the Swiss IPO of dermatology group Galderma, which raised SFr2.3bn ($2.53bn) and has since doubled in value, and the New York listing of healthcare technology company Waystar, which is up 77% post-IPO. Read more: [link] Neuberger Berman has unveiled the NB Private Equity Open Access Fund.

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 6, 2025

The acquisition of Team LINX highlights private equity’s growing focus on digital infrastructure as demand for data capacity surges. Guardian Capital Partners makes control investments in lower middle-market private companies primarily located in the United States.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

San Francisco-based fintech company Arc has unveiled Arc Intelligence, an AI-driven platform designed to streamline financial processes in the booming private credit market, which is projected to reach $2.8tn by 2028. The company plans a broader rollout in early 2025 and has opened a waitlist for new lenders.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

MAY 1, 2023

Let’s talk about stock options that private companies offer and go through the pros and cons of each. You join a great company with an even better culture. Early on in a company it is common for the company to award stock option grants to their employees. or “…what should I do with my pre-IPO RSUs?”.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2023

I think this is good news for the Dashers, is it good news for the company? If these run fast and break things models, get things out, don't worry too much about where the profits are right away, get a lot of customers and then figure out the profitability over time, both by the company and by the gig economy employees.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 24, 2024

citizen and the first-ever detection of avian flu in a human in Australia are spurring fears of an outbreak and thus a possible boon for companies that can quickly produce a bird flu vaccine. If used, the resulting shots would actually be a government vaccine, although the government would hire private companies to help manufacture the drug.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Private company SpaceX successfully launched and "caught" its 20-story Starship rocket as it returned to Earth, a key step in making its large rocket reusable and ready for human missions to the Moon and Mars. The company plans to carry upward of 100 people on interplanetary missions. An incredible feat happened last week.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

The past couple of years have been tough for companies looking to go public. IPOs plummeted 41% as companies put IPO plans on hold and waited for more favorable conditions. One company whose IPO has been on hold for several years is Stripe. Here's what you should know about the fintech company. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Some companies have stayed on the sidelines, waiting for volatility to subside and more stable conditions to emerge. Media reports suggest several artificial intelligence companies are already preparing to go public at massive valuations next year. Data center company Switch is another potential IPO candidate.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

For AI to even work properly, companies have to invest large sums of capital expenditures (capex) into data centers. But what if I told you I see another opportunity as the superior choice among data center investments and that it's not even a technology company? It's important to consider all options -- even the most tangential ones.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

Companies are only just beginning to understand the power of artificial intelligence (AI). A first step in that process was achieved last Friday, when the following seven companies came together in Washington, D.C., The companies will also share data with the government, civil society, and academia. Earning the public's trust.

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PE Hub

JANUARY 16, 2024

Brookfield Asset Management has committed to a structured equity investment of up to C$320 million in the privatized company. The post Persistence Capital to take Neighbourly private, Brookfield to invest appeared first on PE Hub.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2024

Two companies that can't seem to stay out of the same conversation are Snowflake and Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR). Following years operating as private companies bankrolled by some of Silicon Valley's most prominent investors, Palantir and Snowflake debuted on the public markets within days of each other in late 2020.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Net-asset-value (NAV) loans, which layer additional leverage onto private companies already burdened with significant debt, have come under scrutiny, particularly when buyout firms use them to fund distributions rather than growth.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Canoo was not a normal IPO Canoo came public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in late 2020. At the time, SPACs were a hot investment topic and companies were coming public at a rapid clip via this route. GOEV EPS Diluted (Quarterly) data by YCharts Companies can't lose money forever.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The tech sector giant's share price improved by more than 2% across the trading session thanks to that news, which came from a private company in which it's heavily invested. The right company for the right time Both OpenAI and Microsoft are impatient and vastly ambitious, so The Information's report is entirely plausible.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Companies that pay dividends display a commitment to shareholders and tend to have prudent capital management. Some companies offer consistent dividend payments year in and year out, but those payments offer modest yields of 2% or less. The company was a big beneficiary of the blistering investment activity seen in 2021.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2023

There is no firm subscription price for the business-class option, where the buyer is encouraged to contact OpenAI's sales department and work out a deal for their company's specific needs. Over 80% of Fortune 500 companies already have active ChatGPT Plus accounts, according to the company's analysis. Faster processing.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

JPMorgan Chase wants to save bankers the time, headaches and intern-wrangling it takes to get the lowdown on other companies. The financial institution is seeking to patent a system to " automatically discover and extract information " on public and private companies. Photo via the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2025

The company envisions a worldwide network supporting thousands of its aircraft operating as an air taxi service, with pricing that eventually becomes competitive with ground-based transportation. Department of Defense contracts, further expanding the company's market opportunity. Company financials are also unpredictable.

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PE Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

For many private company owners, 'covid took the wind out of their sails and the fun out of running their businesses. They are ready to move on.' The post Dealflow is strong and getting stronger in lower-mid-market, says Sperry, Mitchell’s Beatrice Mitchell appeared first on PE Hub.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many of these investments are in small- and medium-sized businesses and unrated companies. Private credit provides a complementary source of funding to businesses that cannot secure sufficient funding from traditional lenders. Over the past decade, $126.2 billion has been raised by special situations lenders.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2024

I'm in that camp, but fortunately, plenty of AI companies are worth buying right now. Both companies' shares are trading at reasonable valuations, and both are always fantastic businesses. Generative AI has been a huge technology shift for both companies Alphabet is better known by its former name, Google.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Here are two high-quality companies that could pay you lucrative cash dividends for the rest of your life. Volume-based contracts and a largely fee-based business model help to insulate the company from the typical volatility in oil and gas prices. As the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ) in the U.S.,

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

Its graphics processing units (GPUs) are best-in-class for handling AI workloads, and many companies have purchased these GPUs by the thousands to set up their AI computing infrastructure. But when there's that big of a gold mine that one company is sitting on, challengers will surely arise to grab some of the market.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

It takes years to identify and buy strong companies at good prices. Taiwan Semiconductor Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM) could be the most important tech company on the planet. Its industry-leading semiconductor foundry makes chips for nearly every other big tech company out there: Nvidia , Apple , Alphabet , AMD , and more.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While many companies benefit from AI adoption, not all are great buys due to extreme optimism. How do these companies benefit from AI? This division is used by 70% of generative AI unicorns (private companies worth at least $1 billion) and saw revenue growth of 26% in the fourth quarter.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) , the creator of the Electron orbital rocket, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) three years ago. The combined company's stock started trading at $11.58, soared to an all-time high of $20.72 just two weeks later, but now trades at less than $7 a share.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It may not be as sexy as buying the hottest hyper-growth stocks or cutting-edge technology companies, but dividend stocks can be the tortoise that drives steady portfolio wealth when looking at a multi-decade period. This makes it easier -- all else equal -- for a company to keep growing its dividend per share. And it does take time.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What's more, this was the first successful moon landing ever by a private commercial company, arguably giving Intuitive Machines a pole position to win further contracts to put payloads on the moon. Now, some other space companies want a piece of this moon action. Now, some other space companies want a piece of this moon action.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

About 70% of generative AI unicorns (private companies worth more than $1 billion) utilize Google Cloud, which shows that it is the platform of choice for any company looking to create an AI model on the cloud. Company Forward P/E Microsoft 35.4 times forward earnings. Meta Platforms 25 Data source: YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) allow investors to buy shares in companies that own income-producing properties. Private equity funds often use a "2 and 20" fee structure -- a 2% management fee and a 20% cut of any profits. It's similar to private equity. Three-quarters got a helping hand with those millions.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2023

The aptly named company sells AI services to enterprises, but is highly unprofitable and trades at a steep valuation , with shares up 176% year to date even after falling in recent weeks. The company did not always have this focus. ai was a private company at the time. ai (NYSE: AI). If you own C3.ai, If you own C3.ai,

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The company has increased its annual dividend for 50 consecutive years. This information is valuable to almost any company, but especially for investment banks and money managers that need to be well informed when making decisions. The company provides corporate credit ratings for public and private companies.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 9, 2024

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is the only company besides SpaceX with re-entry capabilities for spacecraft. And yet, as we sit here today, its shares have a measly valuation of just $2 billion compared to SpaceX's reported $200 billion as a private company. Public market investors like profits.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

E-commerce, first and most obviously -- after all, Amazon is the world's biggest e-commerce company -- and then cloud computing. 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. of the goal. On the one hand, at $2.4

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