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📷 Our latest Global Markets Snapshot breaks down a month of trends in the equity, debt and commodities markets, tracking returns across various indexes and sectors. It also features private market activity, including major deals, fundraising, IPO performance, lending volume and unicorn creation. Get the snapshot.
💰 Sovereign wealth funds played a major role in some of the biggest deals in the private markets in 2024. We ranked 10 of the largest PE deals backed by the likes of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Singapore's GIC. Read more.
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• Market conditions for private credit are just right.
• Our Emerging Tech Indicator suggests AI hype is far from over. | | | | | |
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| The private-wealth lifeline for emerging VCs | |  | | (PBNJ Productions/Getty Images) | | | Doctors, lawyers and other members of the private wealth set are dangling a lifeline to emerging VC managers that often struggle to ink commitments from large limited partners like pensions and endowments.
In recent years, high-net-worth individuals and even retail investors have flocked to emerging funds with smaller investment minimums, a shift that has helped dull the blow of a pullback from other LPs. | | | | | | | |
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| Early-stage dealmaking is still all about AI | | It's no surprise that AI and machine learning companies are dominating the early-stage VC funding landscape. For just angel, seed and early-stage VC deals in Q3 2024, AI specialists raised $2 billion across 42 pacts, according to our recent Emerging Tech Indicator report, suggesting continued investor confidence in the sector.
Since Q4 2023, early VC funding for the space has steadily increased—exemplified by a greater number of high deal values—and the trend remains even though total deal value declined in Q3 due to an oversized $6 billion deal in Q2. | | | | | | | | | 2025 to be a 'Goldilocks year' for private credit | |  | | (Pakin Songmor/Getty Images) | | | A more relaxed regulatory environment and lower interest rates could spark more M&A transactions and drive dealmaking in private credit in 2025.
That optimism, though, is tempered by concerns that increased competition may tighten spreads, loosen covenants and compress returns on deals. | | | | | | | |
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| | Since yesterday, the PitchBook Platform added: | | 82 Deals | 314 People | 113 Companies | 29 Funds | | | | | | |
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The Daily Benchmark:
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| Permira agreed to acquire Westbridge, a energy and sustainability advisory firm based in Germany. | | | | | |
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Mantra Investment Partners is targeting €250 million for Mantra Secondary Opportunities IV, Secondaries Investor reported.
Austin-based VC firm Tacora Capital raised $268.7 million for its latest fund, Tacora Capital II, according to SEC filings.
Reciprocal Ventures, a New York-based VC firm investing in fintech and crypto companies, launched its third fund targeted at $100 million. | | | | | |
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President Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel's $14.1 billion takeover of US Steel, citing US security and supply chain risks.
Licensed photo and visual asset companies Getty Images and Shutterstock are exploring a potential merger. | | | | | |
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