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You wouldn’t buy a house without looking around it, or a car without test driving it. Consumer tech such as apps are often free to download. With software being such a vital part of any financial organisation’s infrastructure, Jamie Nascimento, co-founder at alternative asset management platform LemonTree Software, asks why it should be any different.
Buying business software is all about solving problems. When a vendor offers you a trial of their software, you get to see if it does indeed solve a problem and importantly, how it is solved. You can use personalised potential scenarios, positive, negative or unique,
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By Joanna Kirby, Managing Director, Time Partners – Private equity relies heavily on manager skill (alpha) with a large divergence between the strongest and weakest performers in a cohort. Studies have shown that it is possible for some investors to effectively navigate this disparate market and consistently add value, through careful fund selection. Robust due diligence processes, both investment and operational, are a critical part of successful fund/manager selection, but how has this changed during the pandemic?
The most obvious impact is from travel restrictions preventing on-site, in-person due diligence meetings. Investors are aware that reviewing track records and strategy
DIVERSITY
Industry organisation Black Women in Asset Management (BWAM) has written an open letter to the asset management industry calling on investment firms to promote racial equity.
BWAM’s letter encourages senior leaders to set out actions which are aimed at leading to progress and give black women a greater voice in shaping investment decisions, by urging the investment community to go beyond the earlier solidarity statements issued during this year’s global reckoning on racism.
“Continued incidents of police brutality have sparked a global awakening for many of our colleagues in the industry. This summer you saw many firms issuing solidarity statements
DEALS
Early-stage Israeli proptech investor BuiltUp Ventures has invested in Trusstor and StructShare, two Israeli construction tech (contech) startups.
Other proptech companies BuiltUp Ventures has invested in over the last two years include data analytics tool MyTower, asset tokenisation platform SolidBlock, virtual marketing company Augmind, AI-based platform Innovesta, and Everflow.
“With Covid-19 continuing to impact the real estate market, technology solutions are becoming more essential to building owners, developers, and managers than ever before,” said Oded Eliashiv, principal and founding managing partner of BuiltUp Ventures.
BuiltUp Ventures is a Tel Aviv- and New York-based venture capital firm, with a focus on
INTERVIEW
The second quarter of this year saw two potentially worrying trends in US corporate credit: the number of public filers carrying debt of more than 7x going into Q3 had risen to 35 per cent (compared to 14 per cent in Q4 2018), while the percentage of leveraged loan defaults rose sharply from 2 per cent at the start of the year to north of 4 per cent, by March.
Those numbers, recently conveyed by S&P Global Market Intelligence and based on the S&P/LSTA Loan Index, were symptomatic of the early stages of the lockdown. It is perhaps unsurprising to
NEWS
The world’s largest online angel investment platform, the Angel Investment Network, has supported the raise of more than GBP1 million in UK-based disease screening and diagnosis startup Occuity.
Launched in London by childhood friends James Badgett and Mike Lebus, Angel Investment Network (AIN) is an online platform connecting startups with a global network of angel investors.
“Healthcare is one of the areas of biggest interest to our investor database. In the year of a global pandemic this is perhaps no surprise – but this business really did tick all the boxes for our investors,” explained Ed Stephens, global head of
THE NEW NORMAL
Kris Ring, debt finance equity partner at Goodwin Procter in Santa Monica, on the relationship between PE firms and direct lenders during the pandemic, the ways this downturn has been different to previous downturns, how the upcoming election will impact business in the US, and what a potentially contested election result could mean for market volatility.
PODCAST
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 the shifts in the current environment.
WOMEN IN VC
To mark Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), PEWire is publishing a mini-series of three Q&A interviews with women working in venture capital. Third up is Itxaso del Palacio, Partner at London-based Notion vc, which invests in enterprise technology and B2B SaaS companies at Series A stage across Europe.
WOMEN IN VC
To mark Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), PEWire is publishing a mini-series of three Q&A interviews with women working in venture capital. Second up is Christine Hockley, director of investments at British Patient Capital which makes long-term investments in innovative companies across the UK.
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