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Retail

Sycamore to take Walgreens private in $23.7B deal amid restructuring

March 7, 2025

PE firm Sycamore Partners is acquiring Walgreens for $23.7 billion as the retailer restructures and adapts to rising competition.

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Featured

Valor’s add-on the latest in PE’s roofing deal spree

March 6, 2025

Private equity firms closed an all-time high number of investments targeting roofing companies in 2024.

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Asia

Consumer deals help fuel Japan’s PE boom

March 6, 2025

IT and healthcare are underweighted since 2018

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IPO

Why the sheen is coming off Shein’s upcoming London IPO

February 10, 2025

The retailer is said to be cutting its IPO target after getting hit by tax rule revisions.

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B2C

TikTok Shop rival Whatnot nears $5B valuation mark in under 6 years

January 8, 2025

Whatnot has launched a $72M tender offer as more growth startups shy away from an IPO.

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Startups

Crime safety app Citizen targets $42M in fundraising push

January 6, 2025

The once-buzzy startup hasn’t raised capital since 2021.

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Public-to-Private

Nordstrom goes private for $6.25B as B2C M&A recovers

December 23, 2024

The Nordstrom family and Mexican retailer El Puerto de Liverpool team up as business-to-consumer M&A activity rebounds, despite sector challenges.

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Weekend Analysis

Where are all the consumer AI startups—and why aren’t VCs funding them?

December 6, 2024

VC funding for consumer AI startups is less than half that of enterprise.

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Retail

Buyout deals pick up in Europe’s consumer goods sector

November 6, 2024

Deal count however remains at a five-year low

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PE Exits

PE sees potential resurgence in beauty deals

April 5, 2024

Recent deals in the beauty industry may lead private equity owners to consider exiting mature portfolio companies in the sector.

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Southeast Asia

VCs target Southeast Asia’s B2C startups

March 20, 2024

B2C startups grabbed the largest share of VC deal value in Southeast Asia last year.

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IPO

Casper takes a big IPO haircut, but earlier investors double down

February 4, 2020

Investor skepticism toward fast-growing, unprofitable startups has claimed a new victim.

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Big Things

9 big things: The world’s youngest billionaire’s big exit

November 23, 2019

Kylie Jenner’s $1.2 billion deal joins PayPal’s record acquisition, PE’s big day in DC, WeWork’s layoffs and more in our recap of the week.

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Information Technology

For the fifth straight year, PE’s appetite for IT continues to grow

July 28, 2019

For more than a decade, the B2B and B2C spaces were where the majority of US PE investments occurred. Not anymore.

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Venture Capital

The rental economy is booming—is furniture next?

May 21, 2019

We spoke with Jay Reno, founder and CEO of home furnishing rental startup Feather, about the changing American dream and how renting furniture can help save the planet.

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B2C

The science and data behind the subscription box craze

February 5, 2019

Subscription boxes appeared out of nowhere in the early 2010s. What’s the secret sauce that makes venture capital firms commit hundreds of millions of dollars to this relatively new industry?

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Venture Capital

Female founders are having a very good week

July 24, 2018

The RealReal and ClassPass, two prominent female-founded companies, announced major rounds on Wednesday. We took a look at the percentage of VC in the US that’s gone to women so far in 3Q 2018.

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Private Equity

Opinion: Bain Capital, KKR should pay up for Toys R Us letdown

June 28, 2018

Toys R Us closed the last of its remaining US locations on Friday. Bain Capital and KKR should respond by paying off the roughly $70 million in severance owed to the 33,000 employees that lost jobs.

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