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Nimble data systems can help managers keep pace with regulatory, tech and operational developments while they focus on growing their portfolios, says IHS Markit’s Dalen Chow.

From deal origination to portfolio construction to investor reporting, technology is poised to revolutionise private markets fund management, says Arnab Mazumdar, managing director and chief digital officer at BlackRock Alternative Investors.

Growing expectations around data analytics, transparency and process automation are giving rise to a greater role for tech in private equity fund services, say Apex Group’s Elaine Chim, Kartik Shah and Gareth Smith

The amount raised so far already makes Fund V larger than its predecessor, which closed in 2017 at just over $1bn.

In a competitive US healthcare deal market, Accelmed's strategy puts it “below the radar of the big guns,” managing partner Uri Geiger told Buyouts.

Bramalea appears to have done at least one pre-fund deal, investing in Loadsmart, a digital freight brokerage and technology business.

Technology is opening up new opportunities for emerging markets investors in sectors such as healthcare, say Gulf Capital’s Dr Karim El Solh, Hazem Abu Khalaf and Alvaro Abella.

Fund VI was “very significantly oversubscribed,” president and CEO Pascal Tremblay told Buyouts, with Novacap “more than doubling” the size of its investor base.

Feel-good corporate slogans and good intentions are no longer cutting it when it comes to diversity and inclusion in the world of private equity. LPs are pressuring GPs to effect change.