Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2023

This initiative is centered around the dynamic startup sector, and it builds upon Hedonova’s proven history of delivering impressive returns. With a proven track record of delivering impressive returns, Hedonova’s latest co-investment venture seeks to capitalize on the evolving landscape of startup investments.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 15, 2025

IFM Investors has acquired a 49% stake in Splend, a $200m startup providing vehicle financing solutions for rideshare drivers. Read more IFM Investors acquires 49% stake in Splend to drive rideshare growth IFM Investors has acquired a 49% stake in Splend, a $200m startup providing vehicle financing.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 29, 2024

Amazon is spending billions more to back an artificial intelligence startup as it looks for an edge in the new technology arms race. billion backing Anthropic , a San Francisco-based startup that’s widely viewed as a front-runner in generative artificial intelligence. It would spend another $2.75 billion check.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 15, 2025

Kering, the luxury group behind Gucci and Saint Laurent, has sold 60% of its stakes in three prime Paris properties to French private equity firm Ardian for 837m. read more IFM Investors acquires 49% stake in Splend to drive rideshare growth IFM Investors has acquired a 49% stake in Splend, a $200m startup providing vehicle financing.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

BENGALURU (Reuters) – SoftBank Vision Fund on Wednesday sold a 1.17% stake in Indian food delivery firm Zomato in a deal valued at 9.47bn rupees ($114.7m), exchange data showed. SoftBank, an investor in Blinkit, got Zomato shares as a part of the Indian food delivery firm’s acquisition of quick grocery-delivery startup last year.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 23, 2023

Qatar Investment Authority will invest $1bn for a 1% stake in India’s Reliance Retail Ventures, the retail arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RELI.NS), nearly doubling its valuation to $100bn from its last funding round in 2020. Source: Reuetrs Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

It recently took a stake in Soneva Holdings , which owns three hotels in Asia. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io KSL has focused on travel and leisure businesses, deploying about $21bn of capital across its equity, credit, and tactical opportunities funds since 2005.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Buyout firm L Catterton, backed by luxury conglomerate LVMH, is to acquire a majority stake in the pilates studio operator Solidcore from VMG Partners, Peterson Partners, and Kohlberg & Company in a deal that values the fitness chain at $700m, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Early Seeded Resentment: YC says more than 24,000 start-ups applied to its latest class, which comes with standardized terms of a $500,000 investment -- $125,000 at a 7% stake, plus $375,000 upfront that will eventually translate into equity at the most favorable terms given to an investor in the next round of funding.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 3, 2023

FIS is reportedly considering selling a majority stake in Worldpay to private equity groups. Last month saw the news that FIS had acquired embedded finance startup Bond Financial Technologies, a move that, as PYMNTS wrote, adds experienced banking-as-a-service (BaaS) and embedded finance talent.

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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. Here's why investors should consider buying stakes in both of them right now.

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FinSMEs

APRIL 19, 2024

Centrifuge, an onchain finance startup, raised $15m in Series A funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Despite the attempts at seeding things way downtown, Flatiron and Soho is where tech startups grew, just like today. These are people whose business it is to support startups. They don't have a stake in it--and by not actively putting themselves out there as a source of capital, they're not in the information flow.

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Africa Capital Digest

AUGUST 27, 2023

The post HAVAÍC expands its stake in US-based SafeTech startup first appeared on Africa Capital Digest. To read this article, you must be a paid subscription member. Current members login here) [.]

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FinSMEs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE), a Paris, France-based multi-energy company, acquired three startups that have benefited from its TotalEnergies On acceleration program based at STATION F in Paris.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. It’s male founder friendly.

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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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JULY 21, 2014

It''s table stakes. Plus, the startup world is littered with companies that grew exponentially without becoming successful--Fab, Turntable, Dailybooth, etc. On top of that, there''s another problem that startups have more trouble figuring out than marketing--scaling. You spend some dollars to get more dollars out.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 26, 2024

Since its inception, it has invested in over 40 companies, including Your Kaya, a startup that created eco-friendly feminine hygiene products, Tidio, an all-in-one customer service tool, and has made 14 exits. bValue was founded in 2016 by Maciej Balsewicz as early-stage tech and tech-enabled CEE businesses backer.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

TA Associates took a majority stake in Procare in May 2015. It sold a part of its stake in the company to Warburg Pincus in 2018. Under its private equity owners, Procare has primarily grown through acquisitions of child-care software startups such as Cirrus Group LLC, KidReports, Kinderlime Inc, and SchoolLeader.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Just two months after its introduction, ChatGPT, the brainchild of startup OpenAI, became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, attracting an estimated 100 million users. There's a strong argument that 2023 was the year artificial intelligence (AI) came of age. Since that auspicious debut, generative AI has spread like wildfire.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 11, 2021

She was born 10 weeks early, on Labor Day, and like startups never are, has performed up and to the right nearly every single day that she’s been alive. Never before have I had such a deeply personal stake in someone’s long term future—and it comes at a time where we face some seriously uncertain outcomes for society.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Indian conglomerate Tata Group-owned Tata Consumer Products is reportedly in talks to acquire stakes in snack maker Haldiram’s. According to a Reuters report, Tata Consumer Products wants to acquire at least a 51% stake in the brand. Source: Indian Startup News Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The estimated value of the Chinese company has more than tripled since SK’s stake purchase. SK is the second-largest shareholder in Londian Wason, after it invested a total of 380bn won into the special purpose company between 2019 and 2020 to secure a 30% stake. The stake sale is expected to reduce SK Inc.’s

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Data shows that the number of private equity (PE) firms holding stakes in Indian IT services companies has doubled between 2019 and 2022, indicating a growing interest in the sector. These firms view IT services companies as safe investments due to their proven business models and profitability.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI tool ChatGPT, is in advanced talks to secure several billion dollars in a new funding round led by Thrive Capital with an investment of around $1bn, that could value the startup at over $100bn, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2023

read more Hedonova announces $50m new co-investment opportunity in the startup space Connecticut – Hedonova, a leading hedge fund renowned for its unwavering commitment to identifying. Read more Archimed takes over software firm Instem for £203m Health tech software company Instem has agreed to a £203m takeover by a US private equity firm in.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It’s also buying a majority stake in HRBrain Inc., a Japanese software startup specializing in human resource management. Source: BNN Bloomberg Can’t stop reading? Read more Apollo-Owned Aspen Insurance Files for IPO in US Private equity firm Apollo-owned Aspen Insurance on Wednesday filed its paperwork for an initial.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault is close to a $7bn deal to buy a majority stake in Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood talent giant that’s home to actor Brad Pitt and basketball’s Chris Paul, according to people familiar with the matter. TPG first invested in CAA back in 2010 and acquired a majority stake in 2014.

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Insight Partners

JANUARY 7, 2025

Startups may need to focus on niche innovations or partnerships to compete effectively. Others will get displaced by more agile, AI-native startups. ” He also stressed the importance of embracing these tools strategically: “Generative AI is not just a competitive advantage its becoming table stakes.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the aftermath of a rejected offer for EY’s consulting business, US private equity firm TPG has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Crowe’s healthcare consulting unit. Crowe will retain a minority stake. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io Source: Consulting.us

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

They absolutely seemed like the kind of people I'd want to work with and who could create a great culture at a startup. Anyone who has done a startup has asked on Twitter or a listserv for an employment agreement, NDA, software license agreement, etc. Reach out to me and I'll be happy to make an intro.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Blackstone and JP Morgan Chase’s healthcare investment arm Morgan Health will take minority stakes. Morgan Health’s employer-sponsored care portfolio includes companies like plan administrator Centivo , value-based care company Vera , fertility startup Kindbody and analytics company Embold Health. The 2023 MM+M.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Stone Point Capital, which took a majority stake in Focus in 2017 before taking it public along with PE firm KKR in the summer of 2018, will retain a stake in the firm. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io KKR has exited its position in Focus. The firm now oversees some $350bn in AUM.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The National Bank of Canada, which bought a 10% stake in EquiLend from JPMorgan in 2019, also declined comment. News of the sale comes just months after several of the firms that own EquiLend settled a class-action lawsuit that accused them of boycotting startups that could modernize the stock lending market.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 27, 2025

In November, OTPP was reportedly considering selling its stakes in five European airports. OTPP's ownership stakes range from 25 percent to 70 percent, making its share potentially worth over 3.5bn. He remarked, Im a great believer in going to hunt where the others dont want to tread. DeepSeek claims it spent only $5.6

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 31, 2023

Walmart pays $1.4bn for Tiger Global’s Flipkart stake Submitted 31/07/2023 - 12:14pm Walmart has paid $1.4bn to acquire Tiger Global Management’s remaining stake in Flipkart, in a deal that values the Indian e-commerce giant at $35bn, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing a letter sent by Tiger Global to investors.

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