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ESG is as important to growth-stage entrepreneurs as it is to potential buyers, says Gaia Capital Partners’ founding partner, Alice Albizzati.
From scale-up investments to virtual operating models, growth-oriented investors are adjusting their value creation plans to suit today’s environment, says Will Bundy, managing director, AlixPartners.
Strong returns and accelerated digital transformation are among the factors giving weight to growth strategies.
A lot of capital is swirling around growth equity, a sign of the strategy’s growing appeal beyond buyouts and venture capital.
Buoyed by strong tailwinds from digital disruption and the entrance of new fund managers, the growth equity space offers a compelling proposition for investors, say Moonfare’s Steffen Pauls and Winson Ng.
The firm raised $4.5bn for its debut growth fund, which has invested in oat milk producer Oatly and music-to-internet company Epidemic Sound.
A list of the biggest growth equity funds to have closed so far, including the alternatives giant's $4.5bn vehicle which closed this month.
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.
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