This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2015

I have a draft deck put together for a next Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund. What *is* really important for a venture fund? Does the firm have access to quality deal flow? I pretty much hate it. Don't get me wrong--the numbers look great. That's not it. It just doesn't really get at what's really important.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

After closing SAETF in 2023 at $120m, the fund was reopened in 2024 based on strong deal flow and demand from LPs. To date, the fund has invested in projects in Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia. With a presence in Singapore since 2019, SUSI has been an early mover in the Southeast Asian energy transition.

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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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Private Equity Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Secondary managers bullish on deal flow, says Investec survey Submitted 19/07/2023 - 10:56am Managers of private equity secondary funds are bullish on deal flow for the remainder of 2023 and have continued appetite for debt, despite soaring interest rates, according to a new research conducted by banking and wealth management group Investec.

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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.

Private Equity Firms 245

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Pantheon, a leading global private markets investor, is pleased to announce the successful closing of Pantheon Global Secondaries Fund VII and associated vehicles (PGSF VII), its latest flagship global private equity secondaries offering, with commitments totalling $3.25bn. Source: Businesswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Fund attracted commitments from a variety of limited partners, ranging from endowments, foundations, public and private pension plans, consultants, OCIOs, and family offices. “We We are excited to continue to allocate the Fund’s capital on behalf of our investors to drive returns.”

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

At their core, they're capital providers to early-stage businesses looking for funding to get their operations off the ground. It specializes in venture debt, making high-yield loans to companies that have previously raised outside funding from venture capital or private equity. What are business development companies?

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Park Square Capital, a European private credit specialist, has successfully raised €3.4bn ($3.8bn) for its latest direct-lending fund, European Loan Partners II, which will lend to private equity-owned mid-market businesses across Europe, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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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. Since inception, New Mountain’s net lease strategy has completed $1.9

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High Net Worth Individuals Capital Funds Private Equity Firms 130

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. So what’s the point?

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lexington Partners (“ Lexington “), a leading manager of secondary acquisition funds, today announced the completion of fundraising for Lexington Capital Partners X, L.P. (“LCP X”) with $22.7 billion of total capital commitments. per share, private equity firm Sycamore Partners.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

Benefit Street Partners (BSP), a credit-focused alternative asset manager with approximately $75bn in AUM and a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments, has closed its fifth flagship direct lending vehicle, BSP Debt Fund V, with $4.7bn of capital.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Partners Group, a Swiss-based global private equity firm with $147bn in assets under management, is targeting $12bn for another private equity secondary strategy fund that will focus on deals in the Asia Pacific region, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Moreover, I also think that more hedge funds may begin taking positions in Palantir. I think the deals with Microsoft and Oracle bode well for Palantir's chances to continue partnering with the tech sector's largest businesses. More Partnerships: Earlier this year, Palantir signed two notable strategic partnerships.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While most of the money that goes into VC funds comes from institutions that are highly experienced in the asset class, some family offices and high net worth individuals also invest in VC. They’re trying to get exposure and diversification at the same time, while potentially seeing co-investment deal flow.

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High Net Worth Individuals Accredited Investors Pension Funds Funds 106

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

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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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

According to data from Pitchbook and Affinity’s annual predictions survey, more than a third of nearly 300 respondents identified due diligence criteria as a major factor impacting deal flow. 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.

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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.

High Net Worth Individuals 98

High Net Worth Individuals Deal Flow Buyout Assets 98

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MARCH 24, 2014

Not every VC used to get pitched by VC funds for a living and has seen hundreds and hundreds of VC pitch decks. Aggregating these types of fund investors would make fundraising a lot easier. Maybe the program could even have a funding basket--they''ll get you your first million bucks in your first $7mm fund.

Startups 148

Startups Venture Capital Deal Flow Leveraging 148

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DECEMBER 13, 2015

Most of the deals you fund have already been funded by someone else, so you're most likely going to see a deal through a seed investor you probably know. No VC has a magical stream of only high quality deal flow. Plus, direct screening can be useful to a VC's future deal flow.

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MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. No new investments.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 21, 2024

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Leveraging 130

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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. Some later stage funds will take a meeting long before they ever plan on writing a check with the promise of “opportunistic” seed investments (to the guy or girl they went to grad school with).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

On the positive side, funding happens so rarely, that you’re inevitably going to be asked how you did it—and it’s just human nature to think that it’s something you did, versus the inherent awesomeness of the idea, the team’s relevance to the challenge, etc. It’s not me, it’s them. What counts as a rabbit?

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Venture Capital Startups Deal Flow Capital 180

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

So, while my fund might be 100% run by one white guy, I'm sure I'd fare pretty well on The Information's list if they added actual funding data. There's no social impact clause in the fund's mandate and the background and status of the founders arent criteria. I've even tried to diversify the investor base of my fund.

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Venture Capital Capital Portfolios Startups 148

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MARCH 18, 2019

Very little time and effort is spent helping professional, full time investors raise capital for venture funds. Everyone is excited when a new company gets funded in their ecosystem, but no one spends much time thinking about where the money comes from to fund that deal. Raising for a seed fund is exceptionally difficult.

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Startups High Net Worth Individuals Deal Flow Education 137

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. Investors can access this through IAIM via funds, mandates, and co-investment opportunities. Forry has been with Investec for almost seven years.

Deal Flow 98

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

JP Morgan Asset Management is expecting investors to exit their investments in private credit funds at a record pace this year as they look for liquidity, boosting the nascent secondary market in the process, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Debt 98

Debt Deal Flow Asset Management Stakes 98

Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Oak Hill Advisors (“OHA”) served as a Lead Arranger for the unitranche financing to fund Bain Capital Private Equity’s (“Bain Capital”) acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics (“Harrington”) from Nautic Partners.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2025, we anticipate Topgolf will self-fund at least four refreshes at EPR Properties. million to fund experiential projects, which have closed but are not yet open, bringing the total in 2024 to $263.9 We're issuing investment spending guidance for funds to be deployed in 2025 in the range of $200 million to $300 million.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Some 56 new issuers across a range of industries were added to PGI Private Capital’s portfolio, and 79 existing borrower companies returned for further funding. PGIM Private Capital also launched its first European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) in H1 2024 to support its direct lending strategy.

Debt 98

Debt Capital Deal Flow Financing 98

Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Richard Hansford, Head of Business Development for Fund Services at Ocorian, acknowledged the cautious optimism in the market: “The easing of interest rates is a welcome development, though inflationary pressures and debt challenges remain.

Professional Services 97

Professional Services Deal Flow Debt Financing 97

Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

Direct lenders meanwhile, doubled their activity over the same period, funding $20.6bn in buyout financing in the first half of the year. Technology firms led M&A activity, with deals amounting to $64bn.

Buyout 96

Buyout Deal Flow Leveraging Stakes 96

Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Venture capital and private equity firms meanwhile, will increasingly elect to move their portfolio companies to exits due to funding needs, pressure to return capital and improving business fundamentals.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Deal Flow Venture Capital 105

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JULY 28, 2016

I'm excited to work with Ron Shah on this company and it's a testament to the kind of long term relationships that have building the deal flow pipeline at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. He was an investor at his own firm at the time--a fund that had a lot of international LPs.

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Investing Deal Flow Funds Investors 113

Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

Etroy also remarked that investors have become pickier, a situation that is leading to private equity firms undertaking more exits via continuation funds (which allow them to transfer assets to a new vehicle) or with a co-control or structured equity type of deal. He added: “Some of our investors are starting to see inflows again.

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Buyout Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Deal Flow 98