The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

There are some venture capital funds that are available to the public that own some shares of SpaceX in their portfolios. But unless you're a high-profile venture investor, it has been difficult to buy shares of SpaceX whenever you want. This fund is open to all SoFi brokerage clients, but it isn't a pure play on SpaceX.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Like its predecessor funds, CASF V is dedicated to acquiring primarily mature private equity assets in North America, Europe and emerging countries in the small and mid‑sized segments of the private equity secondary market.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Private market investment data has always been opaque in nature but venture capital as a data-rich industry has always leant itself to evaluation. Index Ventures takes second place in EMEA, while Accel has backed the most EMEA startups at Series A stage (26).

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

He has previously represented private equity funds, independent sponsors, public and private companies, search funds, family offices, founders and entrepreneurs in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations, debt and equity financings, venture capital transactions and joint ventures.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2023

The company has not yet entered the public stock market with an initial public offering (IPO), and co-founder Sam Altman says he has no plans of taking that route to Wall Street. However, the company has a long history of venture capital funding , raising more than $11 billion over seven years.

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FinSMEs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Nasdaq Private Market, a NYC- and San Francisco, CA-based provider of liquidity solutions to private companies, their employees, and investors, raised $62.4M The round was led by Nasdaq with participation from current investors including Allen & Company, Citi, and Goldman Sachs. in Series B funding.

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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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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Completed a US$250 million anchor investment in the Antares Private Credit Fund, which holds Antares-originated loans to private companies in the U.S. Accel is a leading global venture capital firm with early- and growth-stage funds across the U.S., based software company servicing the education-end market.

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Axial

JANUARY 30, 2024

VERCOR Investment Banking Serves Business Owners Who Are Interested In: Selling all or part of their business Private equity recapitalization Management Buyouts.” Advisor to: Investment managers in the alternative-asset classes, including venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

There were some established venture capital firms in Boston, matrix, Charles River, Graylock, high Highlands, et cetera, Bain. And they wanted to start a venture firm. And so we knew we had to put together a launch deal in order to launch this venture capital firm. I help ’em put together that launch deal.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

For example, our strategic partnership with Moody's meaningfully expand the reach of our sustainability content among banks, insurance companies and corporates. It would also help us broaden our private company ESG coverage and expand our capabilities within private credit. So that's what we're going after.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Generally, venture capital is I think the best performing asset class in the US history, they venture private tech companies, and historically individuals have no access to it. You get a lot more information from a private company when you're investing in them. Are they feeling that pressure?

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

VC Activity ⬇️ According to PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, 2023 saw the lowest level of venture investment activity in the U.S. This is roughly half of the amount invested in 2021 and highlights the reduced risk appetite for early stage private companies. since 2019.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, some schemes said the higher costs of investing in unlisted companies could push up their own fees and deter investors. Nest, the UK government-backed workplace pension fund, said it preferred proven business models to early-stage venture capital.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

.” Visit DPC’s Profile “OCEANM19 LLC (“OM19”) is a Chicagoland-based, single-family investment office that has concentrated allocations to direct private equity investments, hedge funds, venture capital and real estate. Lead Lap was founded by operating executive David F.

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Zajac Group

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If you’re a business owner, partner, or investor in a private company, however, your paperwork might include a Schedule K-1 form (or just K-1, as it’s sometimes called).

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

 At The Money: Finding Overlooked Private Investments , with Soraya Darabi, TMV (October 02, 2024) The Efficient Market Hypothesis informs us that stock markets reflect all of the information known about any company. But is that also true for start-ups and venture-funded private companies?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

If you were to sit back as a private company and say, how would you value this, you'd probably take a whole different set of comps across the board. Raul Fernandez -- President and Chief Executive Officer Yeah. I think the offerings all make sense. I think they all have different comps. I'm only here 40 days.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Really interesting. Correct.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So if you’re an institution investing $100 billion today, or $50 billion, or $10 billion, private markets is already a big part of your portfolio. But for individuals, historically, there have not been great options to invest into private companies. It’s been one of the best performing asset classes for decades.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2023

The company went public through an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004 after years of steadily growing its student loan book. But then, the Obama administration decided to ban private companies from originating student loans, taking the process in-house for the federal government.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

I'm like wait, isn't that just venture capital? There's a space in between the normal marketplace of venture capital, and then what we would ask of our governments. Venture capital can go anywhere, but tends to concentrate in certain places understandably. Isn't there an entire industry?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Venture capital, private equity, just were not recruiting for those spaces. RITHOLTZ: Alternatives being venture capital, private equity, anything else? You often speak to groups of smart college kids, and you ask them, hey, what do you guys know about private equity, or credit, or venture capital?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Who knows, but it's pretty clear these companies are not going anywhere.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Mary Long: Tim B, you opened up talking about Stripe private company. We've seen in past recent weeks, I feel like some stories haven't made the news as prominently as other news stories, but there's been a number of private companies that have filed for bankruptcy that previously were just flush with cash. How about 125?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

In this podcast, they join Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey for a conversation on the changing defense landscape and what it's like to bring a venture capital mindset to bureaucrats. You're not like a private company in Silicon Valley able to be as agile. Chris Kirchhoff and Raj Shah built that unit.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

The amount of energy being put into going back to the moon by private companies, non-governmental is so exciting. But we provide the real estate, the utilities, and in some cases will provide additional venture capital. It was great to see Intuitive Machines landing again, ispace almost.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. And of course, GE Capital had a lending business very similar.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

00:05:21 [Speaker Changed] No income taxes for the company and, and 00:05:23 [Speaker Changed] Then Koch Industries, I I, I don’t think a lot of people realize one of the largest private companies in the United States and maybe even the largest, they’re, they’re giant energy powerhouse.

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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. You wanna, you, you wanna have an aligned model where we all make money together by accessing the best things and private markets, especially venture capital. Eight vc, a venture capital firm.

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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. No other VC asked questions like this.” Absolutely.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

While government efforts have so far focused on bolstering enforcement to prevent the destruction, a series of private companies are working on reforestation. Mombak initially received venture capital funding before securing a $100mn investment from Bain Capital and others and intends to generate revenue by selling the credits.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2025

Matt Frankel: We've talked about private equity a lot, it's important to point out as a totally different thing. Private equity is when you're buying shares in private companies, essentially. Why are banks so excited about it?

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American Investment Council

APRIL 3, 2025

Most companies in America are private, and private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) firms invest about $5 trillion of growth capital to support them. Together, PE and VC firms back nearly 70,000 (mostly small) companies, employing about 15 million workers.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It sits on the fax machine somewhere on for hours 00:23:56 [Speaker Changed] Until someone, anybody can see it, you know, the sanitation worker that night can, you know, like see the whole thing’s crazy so much for privacy and somehow, you know, your private email is not private enough. So, 00:24:07 [Speaker Changed] Yeah.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Teddie Wardi: “For M&A, well see more acquisitions where private companies are acquiring smaller series A/B companies. I also think we will see founders who increasingly scale their companies independently, delaying the need for venture capital until achieving significant growth.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: Well, these are private companies, not the firms themselves. But when they buy a company and put it into a fund, it’s a private company. And so, how they mark the value of that company is, there’s leeway there, Barry. Tell us a little bit about how performance numbers are ginned up.

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