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There is an oversupply of first-time VC funds with a 2022 vintage. As they struggle, managers that deployed their first funds during the recent boom will face scrutiny from their LPs…
Venture capital has traditionally been a more accessible route for emerging managers seeking to launch a new private equity fund.
Entrepreneurial specialists, particularly in early-stage VC, can often pitch investment opportunities not usually on the radar of LPs, with fund sizes typically much lower than most new buyout funds and a higher valuation multiplier effect over the long-term.
“Venture, by its nature, is venture. This is not an asset
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 data, and the level is broadly similar in 2022.
As LP allocations to private equity tighten in H2, established GPs coming back to market more quickly are being prioritised over commitments to new funds.
“If you’re getting a solid return from a brand name firm, why take on the risk
Veteran dealmakers are increasingly spinning out from the large private equity houses to raise multi-billion-dollar funds. Will a more recessionary mood force some to reconsider?
ESG has gone from a ‘nice to have’ to a fundamental differentiator in a crowded fundraising market, according to a new survey.
Ensign Natural Resources, an exploration and production company operating in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, formed in 2017 in partnership with Warburg Pincus, is selling its assets to Marathon Oil, for a total cash consideration of $3.0 billion, including closing adjustments.
An affiliate of private investment firm Sun Capital Partners is to sell Allied Glass to Verallia Group, the third largest producer of glass packaging for beverages and food products globally, headquartered in France, for a total enterprise value of £315 million.
Higher fees and growth in its retirement-services business helped the boost earnings at Apollo Global Management by 6.4% in the third quarter of 2022, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites a statement issued by the New York-based alternative asset manager on Wednesday as revealing that adjusted net income was $800.5 million, or $1.33 a share, in excess of the $1.23 average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Fee-related earnings grew 13.9% from a year earlier to a quarterly record of $364.6 million, driven by management revenue in its credit business as well as a rise in
An affiliate of global alternative investment firm HIG Capital has completed a growth investment in ThoughtFocus, Inc, a global provider of digital services and technology enabled digital operations focused primarily on the financial services end market.
Mozilla has launched a new venture capital fund which will focus on investments in companies developing ‘responsible technology’.
The fund will target early-stage (seed to series A) startups whose products or technologies advance one or more of the values in the Mozilla Manifesto, like privacy, inclusion, transparency, and human dignity. The fund will seek companies and founders who embody these values, and investors who are aligned with them.
To start, Mozilla will invest an initial $35 million in internet companies that protect privacy, decentralise digital power and build more trustworthy AI — and that also have big potential for
SDAX, a private markets investment and trading platform based in Singapore, has partnered with Ownera, provider of a global inter-trading network, to distribute digital securities over the Ownera open-source FinP2P protocol network.
SDAX works with companies and institutions to raise funds in a fast, secure and cost-effective way through blockchain technology, in the process making these private market investment opportunities accessible to investors via fractionalized ownership.
Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, SDAX focuses on institutional-grade real estate and environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related investments. SDAX is backed by strategic shareholders such as ESR (APAC’s largest real asset manager),
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