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Women founders lose more when selling equity stakes

Growth Business

By Anna Jordan on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success Women founders who sell equity stakes have to give up a larger proportion of their shareholdings than male founders. per cent of their stake on average when a business sells a stake to raise money. per cent after raising equity compared to 29.1

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University spinout equity stake to be capped

Growth Business

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has accepted recommendations to cap the amount of equity a universities can hold in spinouts. billion and 2021 raised £2.7 For spinouts with limited intellectual property, this will be capped at 10 per cent or less.

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How the Growth of Private Credit is Impacting Private Equity

OfficeHours

In recent years, private credit has emerged as an important financing source for corporations of all kinds, especially for private equity-owned businesses with high financial leverage. Under this structure, banks typically provide committed financing to buyers (in this case, often private equity firms).

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Former Credit Suisse equities lead to take the helm as UBS global execution services head permanently

The TRADE

Hosie originally joined Credit Suisse in 2017 as its head of equities Asia Pacific, later assuming responsibility of the asset class for both Asia Pacific and EMEA and eventually taking up the role in a global capacity in 2023. He took up the role on an interim basis in March. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong.

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Investment into UK businesses beats pre-pandemic levels

Growth Business

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success Over £27.5bn of private equity and venture capital was invested into UK businesses in 2022 – 22 per cent more than 2019, a BVCA report says. UK venture capital investment contributed £2.3bn into 570 businesses.

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity.

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DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash

TechCrunch: M&A

DigitalOcean , the cloud hosting business, today announced that it’s agreed to acquire Paperspace , a New York-based cloud computing and AI development startup, for $111 million in cash. million, earnings per share, return on equity and net margin fell short of expectations.