PE Tech Report

Insight

Emerging Managers brace for tough ride

In a tightening fundraising environment, LPs are favouring emerging managers with an ESG angle and negotiating harder on terms… Even in a buoyant fundraising environment, emerging managers have it tough. Last year, they accounted for only 11.7% of private equity capital raised globally, a 15- year low, according to PitchBook

Oil pipeline

PE funds ramp up oil and gas moves in Europe

Private equity funds have accelerated the acquisition of European oil and gas assets, with 16 deals worth a combined £12 billion announced in the 12-month period ended 31 July 2022, according to data from global law firm Mayer Brown.

M&A beckons as frothy fintech valuations cut

Data is yet to capture the full extent of the ‘valuation reset’ across late-stage VC, while lower valued early-stage start-ups could face consolidation… Late-stage VC has been hit hardest by the reset in valuations, with the number of high-profile examples snowballing through 2022.  At one point last year, payments start-up

Europe’s VC ecosystem blooms

Billion-dollar start-ups are spreading across Europe at a rapid rate. US VC firms have taken notice. But do hubs in London and Paris really have an advantage over Silicon Valley?  Once considered a frontier market by VCs in Silicon Valley, Europe has developed a network which currently leads the industry

The next tech cycle turns

Dry powder now exceeds $500 billion but VC funds are more likely to be cautious and counter-cyclical in the current market… Global start-up funding is slowing but still exceeds pre-pandemic levels, both by deal number and total deal value. Q2 saw the largest quarterly drop in investment in nearly a decade

VC fundraising party starts to thin

Historically high levels of venture capital are still being raised by fund managers, but the number of them doing so is starting to fall… Despite the valuation bubble bursting in parts of the venture capital market, the amount of capital raised by funds during the first half of 2022 has

Slowing Investments

Private capital AUM growth will slow

The annual rate of AUM growth across all private capital asset classes will slow to 11.9% between 2021 and 2027, from 14.9% between 2015 and 2021, according to a latest report by Preqin.

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