David Bogoslaw
SVB's innovation economy outlook for H2 2025 shows that while a greater focus on efficiency is making more companies profitable, AI funding may be changing the calculus for how many winners a fund needs.
New legislation that sets clearer rules for the sector is helping drive increased investment and adoption by mainstream financial institutions.
Ninety-three out of 100 mid-market North American private equity and VC execs expect to attract capital from new geographic regions over the next two to five years, fund administrator Ocorian reports.
The giant asset manager's Private Equity Solutions platform will make about 20-25 investments in a mix of early-stage funds and co-investments in later-stage companies.
Using his tech sales experience, Justin Wexler works with WndrCo co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg to help portfolio companies seal deals with Fortune 500 companies.
Continuation funds aren’t the only strategy firms are using to generate liquidity for LPs. Others include strip sales, preferred equity deals and tender offers.
Investors seem to be directing more capital to support existing portfolio companies instead of pursuing new investments, while earlier timing for mega-deals suggests a push to accelerate development to beat competitors.
With extensive experience in enterprise-ready technology, the firm will invest in 25-30 companies across various funding stages that are developing financial service and supply chain products and services.
AI tools are helping consumer-focused fintech start-ups underwrite customer risk, sometimes in the absence of traditional banking or credit data.
VCs and corporate backers own shares currently worth nearly $10bn for VC-backed companies that have gone public this year – minus the holdings for outliers Circle and CoreWeave, which are valued at $35bn.