Ex-seeding Expectations
$2B funding, soaring to a $10B valuation before launching a product…
Toodle PIP
Steered with grace. And expertise. Pantheon International (PIP) partner Helen Steers MBE, is set to retire at the end of 2025. The news was announced by the board of PIP, which Helen co-leads alongside Charlotte Morris. Charlotte is a partner in Pantheon’s global secondaries team and a member of the firm’s secondaries investment committee.
Oversubscribed. Overachieving. Unstoppable.
Cue round of applause. Software investor extraordinaire, Thoma Bravo, has raised in excess of $34.4 billion for its buyout funds, with Thoma Bravo Fund XVI closing with $24.3 billion; an extraordinary achievement for the US private equity group, whose portfolio of 75 companies generate approximately $30 billion of annual revenue and employ over 93,000 staff globally.
IPEM Paris 2025: The Patience Premium
While the era of cheap capital and high leverage might be over, there are significant tailwinds for GPs to harness and ride the next wave of innovation, seeking out creative ways to do deals and accelerate performance.
Digitization and other mega trends offer huge potential for GPs to consider how to build companies, invest in large-scale projects, and find new ways to transfer the economics of value creation over an extended timeframe.
The private wealth industry is looking closely, seeking more and more ways to partner with best-in-class managers to develop novel, ‘evergreen’ fund vehicles and put capital to work that can transform the interests of Europe for decades to come.
Swift Business, Smart Exit
Well that was swift. Five years after LA-based Shamrock Capital acquired Taylor Swift’s ownership rights to her first six albums for $360 million, the pop megastar has been able to re-acquire them. “I will forever be grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to offer this to me,” she wrote on her website.