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Private equity ‘a shot in the arm’ for middle market businesses

In a recent snap poll by audit, tax and consulting firm RSM, almost three quarters (74 per cent) of private equity backed middle market businesses said that their investor has had a positive effect on their firm’s future prospects. Nearly seven in 10 (69 per cent) believed their private equity

Europe’s venture capital market booming in 2021

The last 16 months have provided every aspect of society with an unprecedented challenge, yet Europe’s venture capitalists are fuelling a red-hot market that looks to be anything but challenged.  While the startup market is booming globally, Europe’s scene of private startup investment deserves close attention for the particularly astounding

Nalin Patel, Pitchbook

European VC funding could hit EUR100bn in 2021 – Pitchbook

We’ve already surpassed the EUR45.1 billion that was invested into European-based startups in 2020 – with only half the year gone VC deal value is currently standing at a whopping EUR47.1 billion, according to Pitchbook’s Q2 VC report, released today (Monday, 26 July). “Deal value in the first six months

Private markets evolving to meet market demands, finds SEI survey

SEI has announced the results of a survey and report that explores the private markets’ evolution and perspectives on inherent opportunities. “Private Market Liquidity: Illogical or Inspired?” is the result of SEI’s strategic partnership with Preqin and ANZU Research to survey more than 400 managers (general partners or GPs) and

UK innovators attract record levels of VC investment

Global Venture Capital (VC) investors continue to deploy record amounts of money into UK scaleups with nearly GBP17 billion raised in the first half of 2021. This already surpasses the total sum raised in the whole of last year according to Venture Pulse – a quarterly report published by KPMG

Dominik Mondesir, Pitchbook

Q2 deal activity “propelled to unseen levels”, says Pitchbook

Although private equity deal activity slowed down a bit in Q2 from the first quarter of 2021, the speed at which PE deals closed continued, leading to a massive uptick in deal value, according to Pitchbook’s latest European PE Breakdown report. In the second quarter of 2021, around 1,800 deals

Spanish VC beats all-time record highs

According to the first estimates obtained by the Spanish Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (ASCRI), through the European platform EDC, the volume of investment in Spain reached EUR2,056.8 million in the first half of the year in a total of 394 investments, 27 per cent more than in the

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