Growth Deals

A tougher lending market and AI uncertainty are pushing software investors toward add-ons and growth equity deals.

The fund will make non-control investments in founder-led and sponsor-backed companies.

The private equity firms achieve strong returns after a 2021 LBO and 2024 growth equity investment as corporates look to strengthen their building products supply

General Atlantic led the $500M Series E round for Istanbul-based Insider.

Several significant growth fund closes in recent months has pushed growth investing in Europe into the spotlight.

Women-led Athena Capital is in the market for its inaugural growth equity fund

Some PE investors are losing billions on bankrupt physician staffing companies. Meanwhile, other firms are making new bets in the sector.

Thoma Bravo’s investment in healthcare analytics company Bluesight is another example of PE firms forgoing LBOs in favor of add-on and growth transactions in 2023.

Europe has seen a mixed bag of venture valuations as the downturn continues to put pressure on median price tags.

Who was the most active PE investor in the world last year? How about in Europe? To find those answers and more, we sliced and diced PitchBook Platform data in more than a dozen different ways.

KKR has raised about $688 million for its first Next Generation Technology Growth Fund, including parallel vehicles and contributions from the firm’s affiliates, according to an SEC filing.

We recently released our inaugural PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor as a comprehensive resource on all matters venture capital. You can download the full 20-page report for free, but if you’d like to fast forward to the highlights, we’ve collated the top charts here.

Is there any growth in the pace of US growth investments? No. But compared to private equity investments of all types, minority investments are proving more resilient to 2016’s overall decline in deal flow than PE investments as a whole.

Minority PE deals are on the rise in North America, particularly the U.S.; in Europe, however, minority deals aren’t as popular due to a different environment.

As part of the PitchBook Knowledge Center, we have defined and explained some of the characteristics of growth deals in private equity.

In the larger scheme of private equity investing, growth equity generally takes a back seat to buyouts, particularly larger ones, which receive most of the press and generally set the tone for how the industry is covered in the news media.