In the landscape of private equity and entrepreneurship, search funds have emerged as an innovative asset class. Originally conceptualized at the Harvard Business School in 1984 and further developed ...

Private equity has been largely the province of ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That may be changing.

Ares Management Corp. has taken over control of three funds previously managed by Indonesian private equity firm Northstar Group despite the latter’s investments in failed startup eFishery ...

Imagine, for example, a private equity fund that paid $1 million ($500,000 each) for two companies. In this case, ... high-risk, high-reward startups.

Froendt is one of a growing number of young people looking to test their entrepreneurial mettle through the world of so-called search funds. Sometimes described as mini-private equity or ...

Maryland-based private equity firm Mauloa has announced the launch of the Mauloa SMB Accelerator, a new program aimed at supporting mature, family-owned businesses within 100 miles of D.C.

Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

As firms shift toward long-term ownership and private equity-style operations, they are encountering the same issue the traditional VC model faced: how to generate returns in a world where IPOs ...

Unlike with public equity, the empirical research has found that private equity is one asset class where there has been evidence of persistence in performance among both the top and bottom performers.

Euna is backed by San Francisco private equity firm GI Partners, which acquired Euna in April 2022. Since then, Euna has completed four acquisitions, including AmpliFund. The other roll-ups comprise ...