Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Data shows that the number of private equity (PE) firms holding stakes in Indian IT services companies has doubled between 2019 and 2022, indicating a growing interest in the sector. These firms view IT services companies as safe investments due to their proven business models and profitability.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

Kenyan e-health startup MyDawa has raised $20 million from private equity investor Alta Semper Capital to expand its regional reach and product offerings with the aim of becoming an all-in-one health platform for users. the aerospace and defence company, is exploring a sale of its avionics.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

Tim is a passionate serial entrepreneur who also owns a software startup, a consulting firm, and a portfolio of real estate. We interviewed Tim about his experience buying a small business, and why acquiring existing companies could be a great strategy for other entrepreneurs.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 23, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Reliance Retail was recently valued at $92 billion to $96 billion by two global consultants, a move seen as signalling an eventual initial public offering of the company. Source: Reuetrs Can’t stop reading?

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JULY 16, 2012

Still, I contend that most companies have no idea how to hire, and in the last week, my theory got proved to me several times over. In February, I got contacted by a former management consultant who was now working in an operations role for a high profile startup. Both companies were impressed and one wanted to make an offer.

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Anzu Partners

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The founding venture firms include Anzu Partners , Hitachi Ventures , Myriad Venture Partners , SkyRiver Ventures , along with the real estate consulting firm The Steele Group. Deep tech startups often start at universities, get funded by venture capital, and scale through industry partnerships.

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Anzu Partners

APRIL 4, 2024

. & WASHINGTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Anzu Partners , an investment firm delivering capital and strategic support to breakthrough technology companies, today announced the promotion of Henk Both, Ph.D. to Principal.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. You're afraid of startups. You feel it when you print your resume, put on a suit, or sit down for a big company interview. They work at small, innovative companies like Foursquare , Tumblr , Meetup , and GroupMe.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

APRIL 27, 2023

Stock options are a common form of compensation for employees, particularly in startup companies. They give employees the option to purchase company stock at a predetermined price, allowing them to share in the company’s success as its value increases over time.

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FinSMEs

JUNE 15, 2023

Replique, a Mannheim, Germany-based digital manufacturing startup, raised an undisclosed amount in funding. The round was led by STS Ventures with participation from Chameleon GmbH and R3 consulting & investment GmbH. The company intends to use the funds to further build its business.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Valuations of most media companies have slipped due to the collapse of pay TV, rising interest rates and strikes by writers and actors. The Pinaults also control the auction house Christie’s and wineries via a holding company. All three are expected to remain with the company. Endeavor Group Holdings Inc.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If you read something here that makes you think you should take some tax-related action, please always consult your tax advisor. Let’s say you join a company that is very early stage and you are one of the first employees. Taxes are hard enough for the average startup employee to understand and comply with.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2023

now make up about 20% of employer companies and have close to 10 million workers. Better financial performance According to research, businesses that are run by women or people of color are more likely to hire diverse employees, and companies that prioritize racial and ethnic diversity have been found to have stronger financial returns.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Cloud security startup Laminar was founded in 2020 by four-time Google Capture the Flag champions – the Wimbledon of cybersecurity – and lifelong friends Amit Shaked and Oran Avraham. As COVID-19 emerged in 2020, companies needed to go digital overnight, migrating work to public clouds – and exposing themselves to new risks at the same time.

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Insight Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Asthana finished college and his internship at Yahoo and set up his first company, TeliportMe, which productized his earlier virtual tour idea and built it into a mobile app. I didn’t have too much money saved up, as the startup didn’t really have an exit point,” he says. We really got good at that.”

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MARCH 5, 2014

Another case in point, Spark Capital just hired Kate Bolin --someone that had been interviewed at a portfolio company of theirs that had made a good enough impression that they labeled her as someone to stay in touch with. And no, analyzing startups is not a portfolio company benefit. That''s a benefit to the VC firm.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 6, 2022

Her research into the Internet & Technology led to her becoming a consultant for HBO’s show Silicon Valley. Henry & Company, working with such legendary traders as John Henry and Paul Tudor Jones. The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell.

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Insight Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

Unsurprisingly, Exactitude Consultancy predicts the global microsegmentation market will grow from $2.63 About Insight Partners Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries.

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Insight Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rattle’s intuitive business approach is rooted in cofounder and CEO Sahil Aggarwal’s decade-long journey before launching the company in 2020. After studying electrical engineering in India, Aggarwal began his professional career at the New Delhi-based pharmaceutical consulting firm ZS Associates in 2013.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Safal Niveshak ) • This Company Created a Return-to-Office Plan That Employees Actually Like : J.M. Whether the product was introduced by a shoestrings startup or percolated through the mid-level management of a conglomerate, at some point the guy with the idea has to meet with the guy who has the power to bring it to market. (

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MARCH 17, 2014

Here are two contrasting startup stories I''ve seen firsthand. With one company, a founder and his super inspirational, creative, and established buddy hatch a plan to build a very strong content brand that serves as a platform for a lot of diverse revenue streams--events, ecommerce, advertising. Nice, tight story that makes sense.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

New femtech startups are pushing boundaries as investors weigh the risks — and the potential rewards. These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days : The same pay for less time at work? 73 companies ran an experiemnt. Institutional Investor ). Businessweek ).

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 9, 2024

The business-to-business commerce software company plans to use this CDPQ investment to offer them more “innovative financing options.” CDPQ has been a supporter of AppDirect for years, leading the company’s nearly $250-million CAD financing in late 2020. Canadian asset manager CDPQ provided the capital.

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JUNE 27, 2011

There are so many risks you can’t account for in a startup—and in the first year especially, the entrepreneur is just trying to make sure the company doesn’t blow up above all else. Bad hires can crush a company, and that doesn’t just go for full time employees either.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Rohirrim , the cutting-edge technology company specializing in domain-aware generative AI for the enterprise, today announced the successful completion of its $15 million Series A round of funding less than a year since emerging from stealth and deploying its Rohan platform. RESTON, Va.–(

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Insight Partners

AUGUST 22, 2023

The idea for Fermyon, a startup that is defining the next wave of cloud computing, was born during a Microsoft offsite in British Columbia, after-hours and over maple-infused whisky. He and several colleagues joined Microsoft in 2017 when it acquired their company, Deis, which created popular tools for building Kubernetes apps.

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Insight Partners

MAY 22, 2024

in machine learning, was already a serial entrepreneur with two startups under his belt. He’d been working in the renewables sector for a decade, co-founding KPS, a wind energy company that was later acquired by Kitemill. Banks, big energy companies, even governments soon became customers. Furey, who has a Ph.D.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

In the first quarter, we also premiered instant consultations, a new way for clients to get expert advice within minutes from skilled professionals who are online and available to consult in real time, ultimately getting projects started and completed faster. So it's gonna be unique to Upwork for us to figure out how big this can be.

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Trivest Partners

MARCH 7, 2023

It all started when I left Deloitte to launch my own consulting firm to help businesses scale growth through digital channels. My firm worked with over 300+ clients, ranging from YC-backed startups to large publicly traded companies. We stand behind our offers and plan to manage only a small concentrated portfolio of companies.

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Insight Partners

APRIL 25, 2024

Founding Pentera in 2015 — formerly Pcysys — Arik Liberzon created the logic and wrote the code, and Arik Faingold began hunting for a CEO to take the startup forward. While most cyber companies offer week- or month-long trials for prospective customers to evaluate their software and see its value, Pentera requires just six hours.

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Fortune Financial

MAY 4, 2023

Why Invest In 3D Printing The 3D printing industry comprises companies providing products and services capable of manufacturing a range of products. Diversification By investing in companies at the forefront of 3D printing, you can potentially reap significant returns in the long run.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 19, 2023

19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Employer Direct Healthcare (EDH), a leading specialty healthcare network solution, today announced a $92 million secondary investment from global software investor Insight Partners, bringing the company’s valuation to $1 billion. DALLAS , Dec.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 21, 2020

” A management rights letter is a short agreement between a company and an investor to allow them certain “management rights.” While it is nice to have these “rights”, the need for this letter actually has very little to do with how venture capital firms want to work with a portfolio company.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2024

He leads the team that delivers OSAM strategies to advisors, consultants, wealth management firms, multi-family offices and private banks. Uh, so if you’re holding the S&P 500, There may not be losses to harvest, but what if you’re holding the 300 companies within that index?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. How would they know unless they surveyed a critical mass of startups all at the same stage now and then three years ago or so to compare? Not a bad close rate, I'd say--and a pretty great pay day.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

If you’re an great engineering manager in a startup city, changing jobs into a similar role is pretty easy. Do you just want to e-mail them a blurb about a working lunch that you offer to companies as an advisory exercise? That also requires a lot of patience—and it can often be made easier for both sides through consulting.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

JUNE 1, 2023

Originally used by Sean Ellis in 2010 to describe the experimental growth approach of startup companies, growth marketing is a data-driven strategy that focuses on achieving sustainable, scalable, and measurable growth for businesses. Schedule your free consultation today to explore how our expertise can accelerate your success.

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