Insight Partners

APRIL 1, 2025

startups founded in 2018 that used Carta for cap table management: 49% have shut down, 5% were acquired, and just 0.2% only four made it to a public listing. At Insight, weve found that successful companies plan for every stage of their journey, all the way through to exit. Consider the 3,067 U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 21, 2019

If that were the case, every idea, every startup, every person would be able to get the capital they need/want. But it is true that for some things, some companies, some ideas, there is effectively unlimited capital. I don’t think there is unlimited capital. And I see proof every day that is not the case.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

But is that also true for start-ups and venture-funded private companies? She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startups like Gimlett and Lightwell, that were later acquired by Spotify and Twitter. Were these companies from the traditional IVs?

Startups 72

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SuperAngel.Fund

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The startup is acquired outright by another company (M&A). Shareholders receive cash or a mix of cash and equity in the acquiring company. The startup sells partial ownership to another company or investor (M&A). The startup organizes a Tender Offer. -

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

More often, it is easier for a company to gain additional support from its existing investor base as compared to net new investors. In doing so, startups are often willing to maintain their previous valuation creating a favorable situation for both parties. Everyone is familiar with that stat "9 out of 10 startups go bankrupt".

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Sanmeet Deo: Well one of the companies that you haven't mentioned is Figure, which is a private company, and they are working also with Open AI. We have some of the big companies like Tesla getting involved with it. Startups have raised about 1.6 But those are for the private investors. I don't know of many.

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Alternative Investment Opportunity: Private Equity. Private equity is made up of nine investment strategies. At its core, private equity is capital that is invested in private companies that are not listed on the major U.S. Today, private equity firms are more focused on aligning the interests of all stakeholders.

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Trivest Partners

MARCH 7, 2023

My firm worked with over 300+ clients, ranging from YC-backed startups to large publicly traded companies. Along the way I started to invest, both my own and my family’s money, across different asset classes, building a portfolio of real estate, public equities and private companies (including investments in my consulting clients).

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 15, 2024

And so today, if you’re not accessing private markets, you’re gonna get left way behind your returns. And unfortunately our DOD is not as competent as it used to be, but our private companies are the best in the world. But, but no, yes, we have to do lots of small ships if we wanna stay ahead of them.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Matt Levine : 00:21:48 Like there are fascinating stories about like, this is not in public companies, this is not the problem at all, but like ride sharing startups like SoftBank was fi financing all these ride sharing startups, right? Whereas in a public company merger, like it doesn’t really work that way.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region. The Canadian fund will also invest $500,000 in Mombak.

Startups 52

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

CPP Investments invests in private equity in two ways. The first is via direct investments, where it holds ownership stakes that vary from passive, minority positions, up to 100% control of private companies. The second is through private equity funds run by private equity firms, such as KKR and Blackstone.

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Clearlake Capital Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In addition to delivering significant and certain cash value to our stockholders, this transaction will provide increased working capital and industry expertise, and the flexibility as a private company. Insight Partners has invested in more than 800 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 45

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. They invest primarily in private and public companies. Pete Legal, had built an RV company called Cobra, sold it or partnered with private equity, had a bad experience, left that, and said, I’m gonna do it over again. What can I say? Once again?

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This year, we saw significant experimentation on the economic model for AI applications, as the ecosystem worked on addressing some major questions: How do you correlate the economic value generated or costs saved with pricing strategies for incumbents and startups?

Investors 52

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

They had raised nearly $2 million of venture capital money to hire an army of workers whose job it was to mindlessly stare at images all day and no one asked about working conditions or if the existence of this company and others like it had costly societal consequences. I was both horrified and yet not surprised at all. Absolutely.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 27, 2025

But it did have a good, a fortunate opportunity to go really work at a startup hedge fund. And our data on private companies and others, data on private companies is very, very valuable to help inform investment decisions and inform business decisions. It was m and m partners at the time. It was relatively small.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

00:11:30 [Speaker Changed] So that flipping of, of the power dynamics from the capital to the entrepreneur, does that have anything to do with companies now staying private for so much longer? That seems like there’s endless amounts of money around and, and no shortage of people willing to, to fund startups.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This is the most important shipment in the history of this startup company based in Mississippi called Glow run by a guy named Hagan Walker. So if you’re a, if you are a private company, why are you asking me the taxpayer Sure. And this is his first order that’s big enough to fill a 40 foot shipping container.

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