AltAssets

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The post Germany’s Alstin eyes expanding European portfolio following €175m Fund III capital raising success appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News. Germany early-stage investor Alstin Capital has raised €175m for the final close of its third fund, well above its initial €100m target.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 6, 2023

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and Notion’s software portfolio has certainly been ‘eating’ a lot of the world. Read more Notion hits €300m for its fifth fund, but is unimpressed by big rounds into Generative AI startups When it first appeared on the scene around ten years ago, Notion Capital was poised to take.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

Morgan Private Bank 2024 Global Family Office Report found that rich families invest about 46% of their portfolios in "alternative assets," which the survey defines as hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, and venture capital (VC) funds. But many venture-backed startups fail.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Creating this community doesn’t only mean backing diverse founders, but also surrounding yourself with a community of other diverse professionals to help your portfolio. I feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by a diverse community of founders, in the most diverse tech and startup city in the world.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Who is actually building a portfolio whose founders reflect the diversity of the greater population? 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.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That’s what every VC is telling their portfolio companies these days. “Extend your runway.” The very important part they’re leaving out, however, is, “But keep growing at the same pace before the cuts.” Maybe the middle ground is not putting away your experiments.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

Bill Ackman, for example, manages a $10 billion stock portfolio for his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, and he doesn't own Nvidia at all. After all, Google acquired AI startup DeepMind way back in 2014. However, Google Cloud is the company's fastest-growing segment thanks to its growing portfolio of AI services.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Hersha and its team have built an impressive, curated portfolio of experiential luxury and lifestyle hotels and resorts in strategic markets,” said Marty Newburger, partner at KSL. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io It recently took a stake in Soneva Holdings , which owns three hotels in Asia.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005. if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, youd have $758,099 !*

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

CDs are truly passive investments I deal a lot in the Exciting World of Real Estate (™), where buying portfolios of rental properties is considered to be "passive income." CDs can balance your risk against, say, crypto or investments you've made in tech startups. CDs are almost entirely upside.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 21, 2020

A large number of those 871 open jobs are in a handful of larger USV portfolio companies that are leaning into this moment to build their teams. Many USV portfolio companies have frozen hiring or have tightened it significantly. And there have been reductions in force as well in some parts of our portfolio. But all is not bleak.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2024

Freelance writing If you have a knack for words, freelance writing can be a highly profitable business with minimal startup costs. You'll need a computer and internet access, along with a basic website or portfolio. Steps to start Create a portfolio showcasing your writing skills. to $1 per word. to $1 per word.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 3, 2024

Quadrant does have a track record in startups, including the online retailer Adore Beauty, founded by Kate Morris, and Kristy Chong’s Modibodi, which the private equity firm took a stake in in 2019 and was acquired by a Swedish company in 2022 for $140 million. Read more: Startup Daily Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Startups are racing to build disruptive products and business models, and incumbents are looking to respond," Huang said in a written statement. Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 24, 2021

I saw a statistic from one of our larger portfolio companies yesterday. We also see friends in the VC business and startup world working at our office from time to time and that has been fantastic. This chart says it all: We surveyed our portfolio companies last month on the topic of their work environment plans.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 9, 2023

Costs have come down, consumers are interested and buying, and every automaker from startup to legacy giant is putting serious money behind their EV ambitions. But I'm no selling, despite owning a painful 77% loss in my own portfolio. Electric vehicles (EVs) are changing the auto industry.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 9, 2023

a Tokyo, Japan-based mobile entertainment company, is to begin investment activities into startups in India. billion JPY) in startups developing 2C (to-consumer) services, mainly in the entertainment industry in India, to create synergies with portfolio companies. Mixi, Inc., Through its subsidiary, MIXI Global Investments, Inc.,

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Startups like OpenAI (the creator of ChatGPT) and Anthropic have led the way on generative AI, but it's spreading through the technology sector like wildfire, with some of the world's largest companies investing billions of dollars in development. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

Tim is a passionate serial entrepreneur who also owns a software startup, a consulting firm, and a portfolio of real estate. Tim Delaney is the owner of Elma Wine & Liquor, which sells online (elmaliquor.com) and in-person from its brick-and-mortar location in Elma, New York.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

If these surveys are any indication, the future still looks bright for this startup EV maker. Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 22, 2021

In the ten months that have passed since I wrote that I am pleased to say that we have seen a noticeable increase in board diversity in our portfolio. But I can also tell you that the state of diversity in startup/growth company boards and our portfolio is still awful. A number of my partners have done the same.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

That's in spite of Intel's having a similar product portfolio to AMD, a nascent accelerator business it hopes will challenge Nvidia, and an early-stage foundry business it hopes to take on TSMC. Moreover, Intel has its own new GPU accelerator portfolio showing early signs of momentum.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. With that macro view in mind, what would that mean for tech, startups, and web3? Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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Anzu Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This venture fund will be built on a powerful partnership, leveraging Anzu Partners’ technical diligence experience and extensive portfolio support system for early-stage companies, with J.A. I look forward to supporting the growth of promising startups that can help strengthen our industrial base.”

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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.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 15, 2025

Despite recent acquisitions, including properties in Milan and New York, Kering insists its real estate investments are aimed at supporting its labels rather than building a portfolio. The properties in the deal include the historic Boucheron building, renovated in 2018, and flagship stores for Balenciaga and Valentino.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Unlike other startup events, the dynamic wasn't set up for me. There's less competition in these spaces and where there is great talent, it's my job as a "first check" investor and part time recruiter for my portfolio to be where other investors might not be. It wasn't anything that anyone else did. It was all in my head.

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JUNE 15, 2015

I was chatting with a friend about going to work for startup companies, and told her that career development really came down to two simple things: 1. Maybe it's a lunchtime seminar for the portfolio companies of a VC. Do you know what you do? You've just got to figure out what kind of free help is manageable at scale.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 18, 2021

In early June, I wrote this post explaining that I and we need to do more to reduce the inequality issues for Black people in tech, venture capital, and startups. I think MLK day is a good time to talk about what has happened since that post.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

BlackBerry first said in May it would consider strategic options for its portfolio of businesses that could include the possible separation of one or more of its businesses. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io Source: Privatequitywire Can’t stop reading?

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JUNE 11, 2018

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. Give them access to this person's account or maybe a version of their name, like first letter at startup dot com.

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MAY 13, 2019

There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup. Not only that, we have other portfolio companies to worry about. What if the kind of portfolio diversity, became a sought out feature that LPs look for and not just a nice to have—not just from diverse managers, but from everyone?

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JULY 16, 2014

Fourth , I am highly incentivized to provide assistance to my portfolio companies in any way that I can--whether it means connections to talent, PR, other capital, customers, etc. If I can provide helpful context about some of the seed stage startup best practices, great, but they know their company best.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 25, 2020

This is a topic of great importance and one that we in the tech/startup sector have not done a good job with. Most startup boards are made up of a few founders and a few VCs. I am working on this in my portfolio and USV is working on this in our broader portfolio. While that is better than nothing, it is not good enough.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 6, 2023

Beach Point Portfolio Manager and head of High Yield and Leveraged Loan strategies Sinjin Bowron said, “We were very pleased with the strong interest in the firm from investors and are excited about the opportunities ahead for our growing CLO platform. Beach Point’s second Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO).

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Insight Partners

OCTOBER 24, 2023

the accuracy of a diagnosis outputted by an ML model trained on medical images, such as for our portfolio companies Overjet , Iterative Health , or ScreenPoint Medical ). Many of these companies have been launched in the last 12 months, while others, such as our portfolio companies, Weights & Biases , Fiddler , etc.,

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Going back to startup equity, I believe that we will continue to see more and more secondary liquidity for startup equity. Our portfolio company Carta has recently launched a market for exactly that called CartaX and I believe it will be an important source of secondary liquidity for founders, employees, and investors in startups.

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