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

Mergers and Inquisitions

This style is about purchasing minority stakes in cash-flow-negative-but-high-growth companies that want to scale and eventually go public or sell (think: Uber or Airbnb before their IPOs). In the 2010s, startups began to postpone their IPOs, but they still needed funding. There’s usually a long list of previous VC investors as well.

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The Full Guide to Healthcare Private Equity, from Careers to Contradictions

Mergers and Inquisitions

Pharmacies are closer to retail companies; nursing facilities are like REITs or real estate; small physicians’ practices are like consulting firms; and HCIT companies could be more like software or IT services firms. Interview Guide : There’s a DCF case study based on Attendo AB, a healthcare facility company in Sweden.

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Growth Equity Interview Questions: Full List, Answers, and Differences vs. Venture Capital and Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

If you haven’t worked with high-growth companies in banking or consulting, think of other cases where you had to do a deep dive into a company’s operations or economics to build a model or make a recommendation and use this to support your interest. You could still use a DCF , but it would have to go far into the future (e.g.,