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Ikigai, a UK fintech company which combines digital banking with wealth management, has received pre-seed funding of GBP4.1 million through an oversubscribed crowdfunding campaign.
GUEST ARTICLE
By Kyle Burrell, US FSO Assurance Partner, Ernst & Young LLP – Over the years, private equity fund managers have bolstered their firms’ reputations as the asset class of choice for investors, building strong value for their portfolio companies and fuelling job growth across a wide swath of industries.
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EQT Ventures has led a EUR5 million seed funding round into Vev – a visual editor for content creators to build and launch interactive websites.
NEWS
Frazier Healthcare Partners has closed Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout Fund X, its 10th healthcare private equity fund focused on the middle market, a vehicle which was oversubscribed and hit its USD1.4 billion hardcap.
The capital came in from new as well as existing limited partners, including public pension funds, financial institutions, foundations and endowments, family offices, corporate pensions and sovereign wealth funds from investors based in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
“Our three decades of focusing on the healthcare industry, breadth and depth of our ecosystem and team resonated with both new and existing investors,” comments Ben Magnano,
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By Melanie Pittas, partner and co-head of financial services & Karen Allan, director, haysmacintyre – The private equity industry faced a number of challenges during the pandemic, with the majority of these arising from one underlying issue: uncertainty. These challenges included valuations, investor pessimism and a downturn in investment activity.
PODCAST
In this week’s podcast, Private Equity Wire chats to former Slack Chief Product Officer April Underwood (pictured), whose ‘local retail’ ecommerce platform Nearby recently raised USD21 million in a Series A funding round, about the process of raising money in today’s virtual environment, her experience of conducting meetings and building relationships virtually, and why she decided to raise money now.
RESEARCH
EY’s 2021 Global Private Equity Divestment Study, which was released last week, found that the pandemic has accelerated changes in attitudes to factors that are now affecting the valuation of businesses – in particular digitalisation and ESG metrics.
The report looked at how private equity is refining exit strategies for stronger valuations in a survey of more than 100 private equity executives globally. It revealed that 72 per cent of private equity executives say they expect to capture an ESG premium in businesses they are considering exiting, while 51 per cent of private equity firms regard AI as a critical value
SPECIAL REPORT
By A Paris – As the investment industry continues to face a low interest rate environment and the appetite for private capital persists, the Hong Kong asset management industry is well-placed to benefit from the drive to diversify and broaden allocations across Asia. And although some industry commentators point to further progress needed, the legislative changes and supportive environment being fostered represent a huge leap ahead in the jurisdiction’s competitiveness.
Last year saw Hong Kong introduce a number of legislative reforms, namely the introduction of the Limited Partnership Fund (LPF) regime, amendments to the existing Open-Ended Fund Company (OFC) regime and reforms
PRIVATE DEBT
In light of the recent scandals resulting from mispriced assets, and the broader impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, the need for accurate financial and valuation reporting in private markets – where the underlying assets are largely illiquid and hard to value – is a germane issue for investors.
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By Gopi Krishnan, VP & managing partner, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd and Siddharth Raghuvanshi, manager of strategy, alliances & partnership, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd – Historically, private equity firms have always shown interest in retail. For instance, in the US itself, private equity firms have invested in over 80 major retailers in the past decade.
Private equity firms have been behind the buyouts of some of the most well-known names in the retail sector and invested huge sums of money to buy a retailer, take it private, turnaround the business only to
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