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Speculation about mega-sized AI IPOs has growing numbers of VC-backed companies also queueing up to go public, while increasing demand for scale and strategic growth is expected to be a key factor in M&A activity.

Emerging managers outperformed established peers across all the important acronyms – IRR, TVPI, RVPI and DPI, according to new research.

Analysis by the Colibrí Institute of nearly 2,500 VC funds raised between 2000 and 2024 found that emerging managers outperformed established managers in DPI, IRR and TVPI.

'What is happening in the public markets lets us know the competitive landscape in the private market,' says Umesh Padval, who leads Seligman's new venture business.

Pricing on VC secondaries is less attractive now, says Schroders Capital venture chief Steven Yang. He is also warier on certain segments of AI tech.

Encouraged by Google’s launch of a new agentic commerce protocol, some VCs are on the lookout for start-ups developing technology that would streamline consumer shopping with minimal human intervention.

Known LPs in the firm's previous funds include Princeton University's endowment and South Korean investment company SK Networks.

The firm’s limited partners come from a network almost 1,000 industrial owner-operators in the Midwest, including construction company Shiel Sexton.

AI is driving a fundamental shift in how software companies build applications that deliver measurable productivity gains, a new report says.

Zack Ellison of Applied Real Intelligence examines how the features that make venture debt a powerful growth catalyst can also pose serious risk to borrowers when it is misunderstood, mismanaged or misaligned with the underlying business.