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Private market investment is a large and fast growing market with AUM crossing $ 9 trillion and growing at a 12% rate. The total number of VC firms, PE firms, investment banks have grown from ~26000 in 2015 to 58,000+
Now private companies information is not easily available.… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— sahil bhadviya (@sahilbhadviya)
5:01 AM • Jan 7, 2024

Valuing illiquid assets can be hard. GPs don’t always get it right. But just how concerned should regulators be about potential overvaluation? This is where fair value adjustment (FVA) data comes in.
 
Learn more: okt.to/JtNpmC

— Preqin (@Preqin)
4:00 PM • Jan 2, 2025

In a year of anticipation, movers got deals done. Despite persistent M&A headwinds for the third straight year, corporate deal values rose by 12%, and financial acquisitions jumped by 29%.

Explore the trends that shaped the M&A landscape in 2024 here: atbain.co/49w81VT

— Bain & Company (@BainandCompany)
12:56 PM • Dec 12, 2024

In virtually all countries, eight subsectors out of 24 drive more than 60% of the value of narrowing the productivity gap in manufacturing. mck.co/msme

— McKinsey Global Institute (@McKinsey_MGI)
12:10 AM • Dec 6, 2024

📉 Marketplace and Ecommerce startups have raised just 10% of global venture capital in 2024.

This is down from 42% in 2015 (Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Coupang).

Investors have turned their sights on Manufacturing (autonomous vehicles, spacetech, biotech), and (AI-driven) SaaS.

— Dealroom.co (@dealroomco)
9:20 AM • Nov 27, 2024

European AI is lagging far behind the US.

US startups have raised 3.3x the amount of European VC overall this year, but 5.5x the level of AI investment.

Even in a good year, with megarounds for @wayve_ai@HelsingAI@MistralAI@poolsideai@DeepLcom, Europe trails by a distance.

— Dealroom.co (@dealroomco)
1:58 PM • Nov 19, 2024

Private equity firms are selling more companies as they face pressure to return cash to LPs. pitchbook.com/news/articles/…

— PitchBook (@PitchBook)
5:50 PM • Nov 13, 2024

Rhe mid-market infrastructure segment offers transformative opportunities through development, acquisitions, and strategic management. Discover value creation insights from George Theodoropoulos, Managing Partner at Fengate Asset Management.

Read more: okt.to/WxDnuY

— Preqin (@Preqin)
1:00 PM • Nov 7, 2024

Globally, startups raised $72B in venture capital in Q3 2024.

This is the lowest quarterly total for VC raised by startups in over four years, since Q2 2020.

Full Q3 venture update👇
dealroom.co/reports/global…

— Dealroom.co (@dealroomco)
10:48 AM • Oct 24, 2024

Boom: Meet the 2024 Fintech 100, the most promising private fintech companies across the globe

This year’s winners are working on everything from deploying novel AI solutions to expanding access to financial services

See the 2024 cohort: cbi.team/4eTGi37

— CB Insights (@CBinsights)
1:10 PM • Oct 24, 2024