Insights into Private Equity Careers and Venture Capital Careers

Private equity, the darling sector of the financial world, is affected by lots of things.  Among the many important factors that influence private equity is one very critical factor – interest rates. There are two things central banks around the world are doing that paint a rosy next two years for the private equity business […]

In the venture capital and private equity universe, valuations are what matter.  Valuations determine, at least on paper, whether fund managers are doing their job and thereby whether their performance justifies further investments.  Given that 2019 has seen a fair share of massive valuation increases, the question here is as simple as possible – Which […]

Venture capital (VC) investment is booming.  After a record year in 2018, many analysts thought 2019 would be a letdown.  There would be no way that VC could even come close to the massive 2018 investing.  Well, that view has changed.  A look at the state of VC activity in the U.S. follows. VC Pulls […]

When one thinks of a firm involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), the idea of a startup generally does not come to mind.  Rather, when most people think of M&A, they likely think of large, multi-national corporations acquiring a company that has been through multiple rounds of funding and has proven successful at its craft. […]