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PitchBook Indexes

February 20, 2025

Combining PitchBook’s expertise in private markets with Morningstar’s public equity data, we have constructed multiple indexes that track private to public company performance.

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SPAC

Cazoo hits the end of the road in the latest SPAC wreckage

May 10, 2024

Just three years after a blockbuster SPAC merger, used car dealer Cazoo is facing insolvency.

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Regulation

SEC votes to ramp up SPAC regulation

January 24, 2024

An SEC vote to increase SPAC-related disclosures spurs debate over the future of blank-check companies.

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PE Exits

Apollo SPAC liquidates in continued exit freeze

November 13, 2023

Apollo Global Management’s decision to liquidate and dissolve a SPAC is the latest byproduct of a frozen exit environment and declining valuations.

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SPAC

SPACs face liquidation as deal deadlines loom

February 22, 2023

Two years after the SPAC peak, many blank-check companies are facing a make-or-break year for finding acquisitions.

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Podcast

On the podcast: A new life for downside protection

October 31, 2022

G Squared’s Larry Aschebrook joins the podcast to discuss venture investing as the markets turn south.

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Weekend Analysis

It’s not just Twitter—deal regret is suddenly everywhere

July 14, 2022

Elon Musk’s imperiled deal for Twitter is emblematic of this moment. In fact, of a moment in every business cycle when euphoria gives way to regret and dealmakers everywhere scramble for an escape hatch.

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Mobility Tech

Nearly every mobility tech SPAC is trading below its IPO price

June 16, 2022

After a wipeout of tech stocks, mobility tech SPACs are worth about $100 billion less than their blank-check deals implied.

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SPAC

Scores of newly public companies worth less than they raised from VCs

June 15, 2022

The IPO and SPAC boom of recent years was a once-in-a-decade opportunity for investors in tech startups to cash out.

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United Kingdom

London weighs scrapping two-segment listing regime to woo tech companies

May 25, 2022

The UK’s finance watchdog could replace the London Stock Exchange’s two-segment listing regime in the country’s latest maneuver to lure more tech companies and startups.

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Weekend Analysis

This skeptic exposed flaws in SPACs. The SEC listened.

March 31, 2022

A dismal outlook for SPACs recently got much worse following the SEC’s proposed rules. We spoke to Michael Klausner, a Stanford Law School professor and prominent critic of SPACs about blank-check companies’ future.

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SPAC

Proposed SEC rules would upend SPACs’ special status

March 29, 2022

Under Chairman Gary Gensler, the SEC has begun to crack down on SPACs believed to be using misleading practices.

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Secondaries

As IPOs and SPACs freeze, secondary deals seen heating up

February 8, 2022

Secondary deals have gained prominence as companies stay private for longer. Now they may become more important than ever as exit alternatives are dwindling in the IPO market and the blank-check craze has frozen over.

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Mobility Tech

Factorial nabs $200M as automakers debate future of EV batteries

January 19, 2022

The question of how to power the coming wave of electric vehicles continues to divide automakers, who have spread their bets from lithium-ion batteries to yet-unproven solid-state technology.

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SPAC

Smart home startup Tado to go public via German-listed SPAC

January 16, 2022

Munich-based Tado is set to go public in Europe’s first SPAC deal of the year.

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IPO

Six charts that put the IPO market into perspective

December 15, 2021

The IPO market is known for boom-bust cycles, but the past year represents a break with that pattern in many ways.

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SPAC

SEC’s SPAC scrutiny ensnares marquee deals

December 5, 2021

A pair of high-profile blank-check deals are being investigated by the SEC as part of an ongoing push to increase investor protections related to SPACs.

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SPAC

SPAC IPOs and business combinations are seeing a rebound

November 9, 2021

Investor demand for SPAC IPOs and stocks of companies that went public by combining with blank-check companies may have dropped significantly since earlier in 2021, but this route to the public markets is far from dead.

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