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The Uber-Rich Have as Much Trouble Investing as You
Having trouble deciding where to put your money now that everything seems expensive? Well, that’s something you have in common with the uber-rich. New research out Thursday shows that so-called ‘family...
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These Two Universities Have Graduated the Most Venture Capital-Funded Female...
Two universities soar above the competition when it comes to producing venture capital-backed female founders. According to new data released Thursday from PitchBook, a venture capital and private...
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Thoma Bravo Co-Founder Talks Debt and That Giant New Fund
Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm focused on software and tech-enabled services companies, this week announced that it has closed its twelfth flagship fund with $7.6 billion in capital commitments. So...
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Exclusive: Helen Greiner Is No Longer CEO of CyPhyWorks
Robotics pioneer Helen Greiner is no longer CEO of CyPhyWorks, the drone company she founded back in 2008, Fortune has learned. She will move into a chief technical officer role, while the CEO spot...
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Britain’s SVG Capital Just Rejected A Hostile Bid From U.S. Rival HarbourVest
Britain’s SVG Capital rejected a hostile bid by U.S. rival HarbourVest on Friday, saying the $1.35 billion offer undervalued the listed private equity firm, and it was in talks with other potential...
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Exclusive: Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6 Billion
Network software and security company Infoblox Inc. has agreed to be acquired for around $1.6 billion by tech-focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, Fortune has learned. An announcement...
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Why the Most Significant Part of the JOBS Act Has Yet to Catch On
Like many small-business owners, Crista Freeman relied on personal savings when she first started her company, Phin and Phebe's Ice Cream. It was a small operation: from her Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment,...
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The Ghost in the VC Machine
Sienna Ventures is the latest fake VC firm. What’s happening, and who’s behind it? Beginning last month, mid-level technology and financial executives began receiving tantalizing emails from a venture...
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Exclusive: AppLovin to Be Acquired by Chinese Investor for $1.4 Billion
Unlike most advertising technology startups, San Francisco-based AppLovin never raised any traditional venture capital. Instead, it was bootstrapped, profitable by the end of its first month and backed...
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Silver Lake Explores Sale of Vantage Data Centers
Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners is exploring a sale of Vantage Data Centers that it hopes will value the U.S. company at well in excess of $1 billion, including debt, people familiar with the...
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Here’s the Most Likely Buyer of Twitter and What It Will Do
Not that long ago, Twitter’s share price was soaring, based on repeated rumors that everyone from Google to Disney might be interested in acquiring it. But the stock has come back to earth with a...
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This Company Is Trying to Raise the World’s Largest Private Equity Fund
The largest private equity fund ever raised was by The Blackstone Group in 2006, with $21.7 billion in capital commitments. Until last night, when SoftBank announced that it is in the process of...
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Private Equity’s Canadian Tax Imbalance
Canadian public pension funds have long been part of the private equity landscape, primarily as passive investors in third-party funds managed by large buyout firms. But over the past decade, certain...
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Supervalu to Sell Save-a-Lot to Canada’s Onex for $1.37 Billion
Supervalu Inc said it would sell its Save-A-Lot business to Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp for $1.37 billion, more than a year after making public plans to spin off the discount grocery chain....
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Smaller Deals in Focus as Big Private Equity Fades in Africa
A family-owned grocery chain selling lychees and almond milk would have been an unlikely target when giant private equity funds were spending big in Africa. But as times have got tougher for investors,...
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America’s Biggest Pension Fund Just Revealed What It Pays Its PE Money Managers
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System said on Monday it shared about 14% of the profit made on private equity investments in the past year with firms managing the money. The announcement...
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KKR Is in Talks to Sell This Drug Delivery Company for Over $5 Billion
Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Lonza Group on Monday confirmed it is in advanced talks with private equity firm KKR & Co to acquire Capsugel, a U.S. maker of capsule products and other drug...
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Apple May Join Softbank’s $100 Billion Fund Pitched to Trump
Softbank Group is looking for investing partners as it assembles the world’s largest private equity fund and may connect with Apple for a small portion of the $100 billion it is seeking. The Japanese...
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KKR Just Sold This Drug Delivery Company for $5.5 Billion
Lonza Group announced its biggest ever acquisition on Thursday with a deal to buy Capsugel, a U.S. maker of capsule products and other drug delivery systems, for $5.5 billion in cash to broaden its...
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The Limited Owner Almost Doubles Investment
Sun Capital Partners Inc, the private equity owner of Limited Stores LLC, disclosed on Friday it has almost doubled its investment in the troubled U.S. women’s apparel retailer, even as it announced...
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