AI

Cyber risk, the need for proprietary data and the rush to finance AI are top of mind for Carlyle Group CEO Harvey Schwartz.

O2 Investment Partners invests in Vertical Aerospace through portfolio company First Class Air; talking with Allen Rickard, principal on Ara Partners’s infrastructure team, to learn about the firm’s value creation plans for Pacific Ag; a look at how private equity managers can best utilize AI tools to gain an edge.

In September, ArchiMed announced the final closing of its fourth small-cap healthcare buyout fund, MED IV, exceeding its original target of €1.2 billion.

We asked this year’s Women of Influence which trends are catching their eye – and how those trends might develop.

SingleSpoke plans to apply AI to traditional mom-and-pop businesses, starting tech-forward platform companies and using M&A to add on legacy players.

Costs and concerns related to cybersecurity risk have increased in the wake of AI.

With more VC-backed start-ups choosing to stay private longer, liquidity to fuel recruitment and retention is in short supply. A new partnership between NewView Capital and Carta aims to make company-sponsored tenders easier to execute.