In this week’s podcast Private Equity Wire sat down with Andrew Shannon, partner at Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm backing growth stage European SMEs in the ‘circular economy’, to talk about the symmetric relationship between investment and circularity, and what the green initiatives in Rishi Sunak’s 2021 budget could
In this week’s Private Equity Wire podcast Karin Wasteson interviews Joe Stringer, partner at Octopus Ventures, who shares his views on trends in the healthtech space during the past year, and some of the sector’s key challenges and opportunities moving forward.
Private Equity Wire talks to Ted Persson, partner at EQT Ventures – which recently closed a USD18 million series-A round into Stockholm-based AI-focused online learning platform Sana Labs, about the fact that around 1.3 billion adults will face a ‘skills mismatch’ for the jobs needed in the future, how the
According to newly released research by equity management platform Capdesk, 77 per cent of startup founders are saying that the Covid crisis has made them more likely to offer employee equity in their company. Capdesk is headquartered in London and works with European scale-ups including Secret Escapes, Curve, GoHenry, Privitar,
In this podcast, Private Equity Wire’s editor Karin Wasteson speaks to Makram Azar (pictured) and Scott Freidheim, CEO and chairman respectively, of Golden Falcon, a SPAC focused on tech, media, telecoms and fintech companies primarily headquartered in Europe, and chairman, on why SPACs are growing in popularity, and some interesting
The latest PEWire podcast features an interview with Stuart Veale, Chair of the VCTA and Vice Chair of the BVCA. Listen in to find out why he believes that strict EU state aid regulations are preventing VCTs from unlocking fresh capital to support UK growth businesses during the current economic climate,
This latest PEWire podcast features a conversation between Private Equity Wire editor Karin Wasteson and Mike Bego, founder and managing partner of US-based secondary private equity investment firm Kline Hill Partners. The interview centres around the current rise in credit defaults in the US as well as globally, key takeaways
Listen in to PEWire’s podcast with Emily Pollock (pictured), alternatives director at Schroders, to find out how consumption patterns will change in the “new normal”, as well as her view on the potential for “buy-and-build” strategies in Europe and why she believes European private equity is well positioned for some of
In part 2 of Episode 8, Nicholas d’Adhemar and Charlotte Henderson make predictions about the future of the legal profession. They share their thoughts on the long-term impact of the Covid-19 crisis on capital solutions, how the way in-house legal teams collaborate internally and externally will change over time, and
As anti-racism protests are spreading with force across the US and Europe, the business world has begun responding. Private Equity Wire sat down with Anand Prasanna, managing partner of Indian VC firm Iron Pillar, which recently partnered with Nitya Capital to invest in large outcome tech companies from India, to discuss if
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