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The London-headquartered firm’s investment thesis centres on finding companies that are 'ideally AI winners, and at best, AI-neutral', partner Salim Nathoo tells PEI.

In today's edition, Secondaries is on the up, though friction points remain; What's driving evergreen outperformance; Defence sees a deal deluge.

After a surge in interest around the covid-19 pandemic, it has been a mixed picture for life sciences and biotech-focused PE fundraising and capital deployment.

EQT Private Capital Asia returned $14bn to investors in 2025 alone, deputy co-head of private capital Asia Hari Gopalakrishnan tells PEI.

Buyouts reported several items of good news in its Q1 report on private equity fundraising in North America that could portend important consequences for the industry down the line.

Software funds from the likes of Vista, Insight and PSG are largely outperforming or matching their vintage cohorts, despite concerns over returns in this sector.

The software giant will run off its Growth Fund and will not raise another vehicle for the strategy, with the two co-heads of its growth business having left the firm, PEI has learned.

Buyout, growth equity, secondaries, venture capital and other PE funds had raised a total of $152bn as of March 31, up 14% from the $133bn secured a year earlier, according to PEI Group data.