The 2026 Southern Europe Private Capital Breakdown examines the region’s PE and VC markets and analyzes recent events’ impacts on these spaces.

Our Global Markets Snapshot tracks monthly trends in equity, debt, and commodities markets as well as major private market deals, fundraising, IPO performance, lending volume, and unicorn creation.

The pipes that steer AI agents to models are sprouting up everywhere, but startups may struggle to turn them into lasting companies.

Our global unicorn tracker allows you to see all the billion-dollar companies formed since 2016. Explore trends in unicorn formation by filtering for geography or date.

Despite a sell-off in public markets, VC funding for semiconductor startups is poised to break records.

VCs are betting on elder care to transform the physical AI and robotics sector, but ethics loom large.

Debuts by Cerebras, Quantinuum and others have given back their first-day pops, even as 2026 exit value clears the 2021 boom.

Investors are likely to pivot from OpenAI and Anthropic to Stripe and Databricks.

The rise of AI and a washout across VC could make a few firms massive winners.

Fears of overheated AI spending and rising Chinese competition are making Wall Street wary.

This analyst note evaluates the US venture secondary market near its peak, examining AI-driven concentration, issuer trading restrictions, SPV risks, and the startups in line to become the market’s top names.

The top private capital managers across 29 strategic and geographic categories, ranked by historical performance.

The 2025 PitchBook Global Manager Performance Score League Tables identify the top fund families across 10 fund strategies.

Deal value is pacing about 40% above last year, outstripping the UK and France, as defense and deep tech attract capital.

The year’s largest transactions span across LLMs, chips, data centers and energy grids.

This analyst note uses PitchBook’s Return Barometers to model how private market strategies might have performed during past stagflation, oil shock, and bubble-deflation episodes.

Nineteen startups crossed the $10 billion valuation mark as AI mega-deals concentrate capital at the top.

The H1 2026 APAC Private Capital Breakdown examines the region’s PE and VC markets in Greater China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia & New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.