YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2020

Zain Jaffer is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures , an investment firm that invests globally in start-ups, real estate, stocks, fixed income, hedge funds, and private equity. Vungle’s remarkable success attracted The Blackstone Group, which acquired the business in 2019 for a lofty $780 million. .

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. As a result, we were considering relationships with a number of different large-scale investors including private equity firms. They’ve just been fantastic and incredibly helpful.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2021

Most private equity firms fail to focus on the sales team of their target company. The post Are You Missing This Huge Opportunity In Your Private Equity Due Diligence? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Find a private equity firm or friendly individual. According to recent National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 20% of venture-backed startups now use this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

And while “ Startup Rising ” does touch on the thorny issue of religion, it’s more to help the reader understand and appreciate how religion have shaped the Middle Eastern perspective towards entrepreneurship and business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

“Increasingly, attention is shifting from established Western markets to our part of the world, and we believe Asia will increasingly drive venture capital and private equity activities in the future,” says Eugene Wong, chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital Association (SVCA). Ongoing Challenges.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Similarly, private equity giant Blackstone has reaffirmed its commitment to AI infrastructure, investing heavily in data centers and storage companies essential for AI growth. If completed, this round would value OpenAI at $340 billion, nearly doubling its valuation from October.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

I like the work just published by Bob Rice in “ The Alternative Answer ,” which does a great job of summarizing the investment universe, starting with the “conventional” stocks, bonds, and real estate, but moving on through more esoteric alternatives, including hedge funds, private equity, real assets, managed futures, and finally venture funding.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

A few selections: Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, and Private Equity : Similarities in compensation structure for hedge funds, venture capital firms, and private equity investors. Khan Academy. Khan Academy has a huge range of free educational videos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Find a private equity firm or friendly individual. According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

When you accept outside money, particularly a private equity (PE) investment, however, that changes. In this article, I’ll provide some personal stories of how investors have navigated the balance between raising private equity capital and not losing control of their startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2011

In this case, a private equity firm engaged me to assist in the purchase of a German software supplier. This is a hard and painful process for everyone, but it’s usually better than the alternative of liquidating or losing the assets and antagonizing many customers.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Th book explores the various fund-raising stages that a startup is likely to go through, and covers various financial models such as private equity, debt funding, public funding, incubation or accelerator programs that may all seem a little overwhelming to the new technopreneur (but which is all-so-important).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. Many firms didn’t even return LPs their original money let along a profit. VC will shrink. Oh yes it will. The top quartile funds have performed well.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

HBSAANY is comprised of New York City tri-state area Harvard alumni who are venture capitalists and other accredited investors investing in early-stage, private companies around the United States. The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is the trade association representing women and diverse private equity and venture firms.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Global Sources, once listed in Bermuda and now owned by the private equity giant Blackstone, has been active in Hong Kong since the 1970s and focuses on trade in and out of the former British colony. Asia Trade Hub, based in India, Tradekey, based in Saudi Arabia, and EC21, based in South Korea, are the only pan-Asia marketplaces.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Jeffrey Kadlic is the co-founder and managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners LLC, a small business private equity fund investing growth equity nationwide in Second Stage Companies. Focusing on the 2 or 3 big levers to grow your business will return many fold the investment made in passionate and capable people.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

Mid-sized VC firms are increasingly being squeezed by large corporations and private equity firms that are following VCs’ timeless example and starting to take increasing risk. VC investors were once billed as the mavericks, the risk takers that no one else would follow in pumping money into unknown businesses and industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This came in part due to the huge influx of money into VC but also because hedge funds and private equity shops with no VC experience wanted part of the action. As we all know the VC industry is now set to contract dramatically as profiled in this seminal Paul Kedrosky presentation predicting a 50% contraction.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2019

Previously, he was a senior executive and managing partner in private equity and corporate finance for 15 years and directly involved in the deployment and management of billions of dollars of debt and equity investments in various industries. Christopher founded two companies, Crestridge Investments and Third Wave Partners.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2019

Previously, he was a senior executive and managing partner in private equity and corporate finance for 15 years and directly involved in the deployment and management of billions of dollars of debt and equity investments in various industries. Christopher founded two companies, Crestridge Investments and Third Wave Partners.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

jamescaan : James Caan is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of the Hamilton Bradshaw private equity firm. @davidrutkauskas : The CEO of Beautiful Brands discusses how your great idea can be branded into greatness. CEO_INGDIRECT : Peter Aceto, CEO of ING Direct Canada offers insight on finance, business, and even learning online.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations. When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies and consulting firms. Every year they fund several teams as they launch companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2023

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. The allocation of this capital is a significant step in reorganizing the structure of the healthcare sector as a whole.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Most private equity firms fail to focus on the sales team of their target company. To assess sales force potential—take three steps.

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David Teten

JULY 24, 2019

If you’re looking for a job in venture capital (or private equity), here is a list of compensation benchmarks, plus all the recruiters I’m aware of who do searches for roles inside venture capital firms, Analyst through Partner. Heidrick: PRIVATE EQUITY COMPENSATION TRENDS IN NORTH AMERICA: 2018. Compensation Benchmarks.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

As senior partner in Libreum Capital Management , JP James helps set the strategic direction in the diverse set of financial companies including alternative investments, private equity, risk management, investment banking focused on multiple verticals including medical, wellness, fracking tech, entertainment tech, and others.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Prior to that, Aditya was a Leader in Bain’s Digital Practice where he focused on digital transformations, innovation and automation, serving clients in CPG, Financial Services, Real Estate and Private Equity.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Invested Interests debt financing private equity funds startup VCs venture capital firms' And if you are still at the startup stage, how do already have global operations in a dozen countries? original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. In 2018, the 8,000 active private equity funds globally had a 15 to 16 percent annual performance differential between top and bottom quartile funds. Fundraising hacks for VC and private equity funds.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2025

Since I’m always interested in startup outcomes – especially those where there’s a private equity-like exit , Joe was kind enough to share the backstory with me, and here with you! I ran into Joe Hyrkin after his company Issuu (where he’d been CEO) was been purchased by Bending Spoons.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Alison founded Obok Consulting in 2020 after two years in private equity where she was responsible for getting businesses ready for purchasing and helping them through the acquisition process. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here !

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2019

by Adam Coffey, author of “ The Private Equity Playbook ” . You speak to trusted friends and personal advisors about how you should go about doing this (perhaps your lawyer or accountant), and before you know it, you stumble upon an important player in the private equity game: the investment banker.

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