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Live and direct. As consumer demand rises for live entertainment experiences – just look at the crowds at Taylor Swift’s Eras tour – KKR has just announced the acquisition of…

While tech giants focus their AI strategy on content generation, AI-generated visual media is on the rise, with a 90% VC funding increase. It seems fitting that we generated our…

PE firms are tapping in to billionaire family wealth to help get buyout deals over the line, in a sign that family offices are becoming even more important co-investors. Bloomberg…

That old expression ‘Streets paved with gold’ is well known to many but Goldman Sachs Asset Management has put a new spin on it. Why? Their latest direct lending fund…

It might be known as the City of Lights but Paris hopes to illuminate Europe another way; by leading the charge on artificial intelligence and making it the City of…

CoreWeave, a fast-growing AI cloud computing firm backed by Nvidia, will be popping the champagne this week, following news that they have secured a record $7.5 billion in debt financing.…

Happy Birthday. Two years old today. Bring out the party hats and ice cream! 🥳 Two years ago the IPEM Team decided to launch a weekly newsletter to take a…

A new report by PitchBook forecasts that private markets could grow to $20 trillion by 2028, potentially even reaching $23.7 billion in a good case scenario. Private markets already control…

Cambridge-based Darktrace, a leading cybersecurity and AI company, has agreed a $5.3 billion sale to Thoma Bravo. The company’s decision to leave the FTSE250 and go private is a blow…

We hear you but we’re not quite ready. That seems to be the message coming from Norway’s government, who have decided to not yet allow the country’s Oil Fund –…