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What trends are emerging in the field of data analytics? What are the various ways that managers are actively using analytical tools, as part of their day-to-day fund management activities? And what are the some of the best practices GPs need to consider, as they look to introduce more analytical firepower into their respective firms? These questions, and more will be discussed in an upcoming webinar in collaboration with AssetMetrix on 30 June.
GUEST ARTICLE
By David Holden-White, co-founder & managing director of techspert.io – Investors have long sought data from primary research to get an edge in their decision-making. Whether gathered through surveys, focus groups, panels or qualitative interviews, insights from individuals with lived experience of the relevant problems, markets, technologies and services, are hugely valuable. They offer a way of uncovering the intangibles, those moments that can’t be quantified solely on data. They augment and extend an investor’s own knowledge and experiences.
They also provide companies with a real competitive advantage. Most investors will have access to the same pool of data, whether
FUND LAUNCHES
Blisce, a B Corp certified transatlantic growth VC fund that has previously backed ventures including Spotify, Pinterest and Headspace, has launched the new fund Blisce Fund II, with a final target of USD350 million.
Blisce Fund II, which held its first close today at USD150 million, will make investments ranging from USD10 million to USD35 million, in American and European companies on the forefront of new consumer trends. The fund will specifically look for high growth, high impact sectors including anti-food waste providers, and companies who deal with the future of health, micro-mobility, trusted financial services and access to education.
NEWS
The Alternative Credit Council, the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association, has launched its Investor Manager Committee, a new initiative which aims to strengthen the ACC’s work on key areas where private credit market practice is still evolving, and foster better engagement between investors and asset managers in this burgeoning asset class.
Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
PODCAST
In this week’s podcast, Priya Karkar, investor relations representative at secondaries-focused firm Kline Hill Partners, talks about fundraising in the ‘new business normal’ and how LP sentiment regarding committing to private funds has evolved since the onset of the global pandemic more than a year ago.
New Normal Q&A
In the latest addition to PEWire’s ‘New Normal’ Q&A series Dave Tayeh (pictured), head of private equity, North America, at Investcorp shares his views on the current deal environment, the role of the private equity industry in the recovery as well as its timeline, how the low interest rates are affecting company valuations at the moment, and how the large amounts of dry powder might be deployed in years to come.
PODCAST
In this week’s podcast, Anu Balasubramanian, partner at international law firm Paul Hastings, shares her views on whether US/European cross border M&A deal making will continue its upward trajectory, her outlook on the US economic recovery and what that will mean for European PE.
GUEST ARTICLE
By Sam Gilbert-Ward, Business Analyst, Pollen Street Capital – With governments, businesses and people looking towards the ‘new normal’ post Covid-19 we begin to see the areas where the pandemic has been a catalyst for change. Across the globe businesses are galvanised to consider what ESG really means for them. The refocusing of priorities has given many the opportunity to re-assess their ESG framework and ensure that the strategy put in place creates real impact.
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Venture capital and growth equity firm Endeavour Vision has a 20-year history of investing in growth-stage medtech and digital health companies in Europe and the US. Here Private Equity Wire asks Bernard Vogel, co-founder and managing partner, and Meret Gaugler (pictured, above-right, with Vogel), head of investment strategy, for their thoughts on the innovations and key drivers that are shaping the sector’s future.
RESEARCH
European private equity deal activity value and volume increased to quarterly records spurred by increasing middle-market and micro-cap activity, respectively, according to PitchBook’s newly released Q1 2021 European Private Equity Breakdown report.
Deal value and volume both accelerated to quarterly records supported by increased middle-market activity (deals sized between EUR100 million and EUR500 million) and rising micro-cap transactions – deals sized under EUR25 million.
The report showed that 1,936 transactions closed in the first quarter for a total of EUR158.8 billion, which represents a year-on-year increase of 79.9 per cent and 28.5 per cent, respectively.
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