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  Corporates

  Tech giants close AI gap with big buys

  June 16, 2026

  Salesforce just acquired AI customer service startup Fin for $3.6 billion, and SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billion.

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  Corporates

  40% of executives thought AI could save up to 20%. It didn’t deliver.

  June 1, 2026

  The gap between AI spending and productivity gains “should be making executives uncomfortable,” a Bain report found.

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  AI & ML

  The AI race to IPO passes through PE portfolios

  May 4, 2026

  Both Anthropic and OpenAI are betting big on a fast track to greater enterprise adoption.

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  Venture Ecosystem

  The wheels could be coming off the circular computing deal train

  April 28, 2026

  OpenAI’s missed targets could test tech giant’s generous investments in AI labs that come with added expectations.

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  AI & ML

  OpenAI loosens Microsoft’s grip ahead of IPO push

  April 27, 2026

  OpenAI is gradually shedding one of its key early partners as it looks to its next big thing: going public.

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  Data Visualization

  Map: Big Tech corporates keep circling LLM makers

  April 21, 2026

  Amazon’s fresh investment and compute deal with Anthropic is the latest corporate move revealing that AI winners are still to be determined.

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  Private Equity

  Big-ticket deals push M&A value to all-time high

  January 30, 2026

  Volume reached nearly $5 trillion last year, with about 57% from mega-deals—the highest share in a decade.

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  Defense Tech

  Corporate capital floods into defense tech startups

  January 21, 2026

  As geopolitical risks grow, larger companies are entering the vertical earlier to accelerate innovation.

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  Private Equity

  Lee Equity Partners exits Solaris Health in $1.9B sale to Cardinal Health

  August 12, 2025

  Deal underscores steady momentum in healthcare services exits, as Cardinal expands specialty therapeutics footprint beyond oncology.

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  Weekend Analysis

  Tech M&A bankers are dragging through their slowest winter in a decade

  March 14, 2025

  Founders have all but stopped hoping for a sale to Meta, Google or the like, say bankers.

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  PE Exits

  Strategic buyers pay up for PE assets

  August 8, 2024

  Strategic buyers are paying a premium for PE assets, multiple bodies of evidence show.

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  Weekend Analysis

  Corporate buyers make preemptive bids to snag PE assets

  July 26, 2024

  Advisers say they see more strategic buyers making direct offers to take PE-owned assets off market.

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  Private Equity

  Corporate buyers lead the way on software deals

  April 26, 2024

  Five of the 10 largest software acquisitions in Q1 were completed by corporate buyers

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  Top Investor

  The 10 most active CVC investors in European startups

  March 28, 2024

  CVC participation in European VC deals has been on the decline but an anticipated rebound could increase their appetite for startups.

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  Venture Capital

  VC-backed M&A spoils predictions, falling to decade low

  January 24, 2024

  VCs and market participants have been predicting an uptick in M&A activity, but fewer startups were bought in 2023 than in any year over the past decade.

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  Private Equity

  M&A advisers share checklist for 2024 rebound

  November 1, 2023

  Dealmakers hope an end to the interest rate hikes, a narrowing valuation gap and more stable geopolitical conditions will bolster deal activity next year.

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