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As the education sector learns to embrace tech, Saar Pikar, managing director at OMERS Growth Equity, outlines edtech’s growing investment appeal.
With the crisis leaving European SMEs starved of capital, there will be significant opportunity for growth stage deals when the time is right, say ESO Capital’s Alex Schmid and Steve Edwards
Growth equity investments in sectors such as tech not only remained unscathed during the GFC, they could also benefit from the covid-induced new normal, says Dr Daniel Schmidt, CEO and founder of CEPRES.
Andrea Auerbach, global head of private investments at Cambridge Associates, writes that growth equity can complement LPs’ exposure to LBO strategies, particularly in turbulent periods.
A growing investment choice for LPs pre-covid-19, growth capital strategies could emerge as a heavyweight from the crisis.
There’s no shortage of growth equity in the world right now.
Headline risks and recession fears in the Asia-Pacific private equity markets have put a greater onus on managers to pursue growth levers.
Vianney de Leudeville of British Business Investments discusses why the development bank subsidiary is seeding fund of funds managers.
Managing director Jay Park and two other private equity partners executives launched the firm in July.
In this 11-slide presentation PEI breaks down the $91bn of capital raised for private equity last quarter by strategy, geography and the industry's biggest funds.