SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

If I am doing my job right the first time in “picking winners”, at least for a few subsequent rounds, our best deal flow should come from our existing portfolio. There were approximately 15k total deals completed representing $170 billion invested (see chart 1 below). since 2019.

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Startups Due Diligence Angel Investors Deal Flow 69

Insight Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Financing led by RA Capital Management with participation from Insight Partners, NVentures, Catalio Capital Management, Eli Lilly and Company, Gaingels, and Cooley LLP Funds to support clinical development of lead programs and expansion of small molecule pipeline focused on high-value GPCR targets BOSTON, Sept.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

This will bring about intense competition among firms for the best deals and may lead to a seller’s market. Fewer Large Leveraged Buyouts Tighter monetary policy and a more uncertain macroeconomic outlook make large lenders more hesitant to finance large leveraged buyouts.

Leveraged Buyouts 52

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Buyout 52

SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our own data over the past two quarters has also shown new deals priced more reasonably, both for follow-on investments in our top performers, and for new companies as well. ” Per a Wall Street Journal article from November 2, 2022 : “Venture has outperformed other asset classes in prior down cycles. Thanks for reading!

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Venture Capital Financing Finance Law Firms 52

Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Technology ranked 4th in deal flow but had the highest average pursuit rate, 8.76%, of all sectors. See below for the full Q3 deal activity overview on the Axial platform, and for a more detailed breakdown by industry, check out The SMB M&A Pipeline: Q3 2023. .” Clark, Mr. Fay, Ms.

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Investment Banks Investment Banking Banks Mergers and Acquisitions 52

SuperAngel.Fund

JULY 14, 2023

Similarly, for General Partners (GPs) like me who manage venture capital funds, we are no different and I believe in practicing what you preach. If executed properly, Secondaries can be an extremely effective and lucrative way to acquire stakes in high-growth companies that are not actively raising capital.

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Venture Capital Capital Funds Deal Flow 52

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s the first full fiscal year since CalPERS ramped up its private equity investments with a $25-billion bet while increasing the use of leverage and allocations to private debt. The gain left CalPERS holding $462.8 billion, enough to cover 72% of its future obligations, unchanged from a year earlier. The results were mixed.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg News also reports Ontario Teachers’ makes bond bet as economic clouds gather: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is making a bigger bet on bonds and credit and is adding leverage to pay for it. The fund’s leverage soared during the first half, with funding for investments rising 47 per cent, to $145 billion.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And you can go long, you can go short, you can have leverage, you could have higher exposure levels, but the securities are in the liquid public markets versus private equity, which are in illiquid private markets. 00:45:53 [Speaker Changed] So where does your deal flow come from? Are, are the parallels there at all?

Hedge Funds 64

Hedge Funds Mutual Funds Funds Due Diligence 64

Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth. Is this possible?

Leveraged Buyouts 59

Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Pension Funds Mergers and Acquisitions 59

The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And you know, it’s funny, when I was on the road in the early days, you know, talk about even post GFC, you’d meet with large scale institutions and you talk about senior secured loans, private lending, covenants, reasonable leverage, et cetera, et cetera. So well capitalized, conservative structures, covenants.

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financing Finance 59

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

At its core, Salesforce is a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) -- a tool that allows sales leaders to track deal flow, pipeline trends, marketing campaigns, and more in a data-centric, efficient way. But over the last several years, Salesforce has diversified its platform through several high-profile acquisitions.

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Deal Flow Venture Capital Leveraging Prospects 130

Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Indias private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) sectors are positioning themselves for a surge in dealmaking activity as subdued stock market conditions push businesses away from IPOs and towards private funding, according to a report by Reuters.

Deal Flow 61

Deal Flow Venture Capital Stakes Leveraging 61

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Q3 performance benefited from our maniacal focus on these customer segments and deal flow remained strong during the quarter as we grew commitments from new and existing customers across all of our solutions. In 2024, we released our attack discovery solution, leveraging large language models to automate threat discovery.

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Financing Finance Leveraging 239

Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

There is also now only one global credit group which manages any style of credit including investment grade, leveraged finance, high yield, private credit, external private credit and structured credit. The credit market has not seen a lot of primary supply, and we have not seen a lot of deals. I think we have gone through the worst.

Buyout 52

Buyout Pension Funds Investing Assets 52

The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. The next step from there was that Social Leverage. And I think you will also. Pretty nice.

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Hedge Funds Leveraging Venture Capital Financing 116

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And having gone into biotech early and then tech enabled, you know, software using, you know, leveraging the internet in healthcare early, I just felt like payments and FinTech, I wanted to be early. How does this affect the deal flow you see in the companies you look at, do you have your own space and and that’s what you drill into?

Banks 52

Banks Startups Boutique Investment Banks Companies 52