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Mogin Law LLP

Big Tech’s Decade of A.I. Shopping - updated 7.18.25

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Does anybody remember Napster? Launched in June 1999, the revolutionary peer-to-peer music sharing platform peaked at 80 million music lovers worldwide. It famously fell from greatness into bankruptcy three years later after...more

Fenwick & West LLP

AI Startups Outpace the Market Again - But for How Long?

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AI continues to be the standout in venture dealmaking, with Q1 2025 extending the sector’s winning streak. AI companies raised more capital and achieved significantly higher pre-money valuations than their non-AI...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Finding Alpha in Consumer

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As we move through 2025, the phrase “finding alpha” has become the mantra for private equity (PE) investors focused on the consumer sector. Confidence in the sector remains robust, but the narrative has shifted: it is no...more

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2025 Private Credit Technology Summit: Perspectives from the Industry

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Technology’s role in private credit is expanding, with digital tools, data management, and artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and reporting processes....more

MoFo Life Sciences

Key Developments in MedTech M&A: Momentum Despite Macroeconomic Uncertainty

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2024 was a challenging year for M&A activity in the medical technology (“MedTech”) industry. Although some sectors experienced a rebound in deal volume, MedTech dealmakers were disproportionately affected by a difficult...more

White & Case LLP

Minority report: Minority stakes spike in US and Europe for sponsors and strategics alike

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In an M&A market characterized by buyer caution and narrowing liquidity pathways for sellers, flexible minority stakes transactions are proving a valuable option for dealmakers in the US and Europe - In an M&A market that has...more

Ankura

Where's My MOIC? Come Along on the Innovation Journey if You Dare

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Let us cut to the chase: In the high-stakes world of middle-market enterprises, innovation is not a luxury—it is survival calculus. Your Multiple of Invested Capital (MOIC) is not just a number on a spreadsheet; it is the DNA...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 241

Food Venture Financing Trends - In Q1 2024, food tech startup funding fell by 50%, while AI startups captured 70% of venture capital investments....more

Ropes & Gray LLP

SuperReturn International 2025: Four Key Takeaways

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Ropes & Gray attended the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin last week, which attracted over 5,500 decision makers from the private markets industry who came together to share their outlook for 2025 and beyond....more

Fenwick & West LLP

Q1 2025 Venture Beacon: Key VC Market Trends

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In this edition of the J.P. Morgan Venture Beacon, we analyze venture deals from Series Seed through Series D+ to surface the real-time dynamics shaping today’s startup ecosystem. Produced in collaboration with J.P. Morgan |...more

White & Case LLP

Data with destiny: European AI M&A heats up as the race for dominance intensifies

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With industries embracing this evolving technology, Europe is determined not to be left behind, and dealmakers are paying close attention - Europe’s artificial intelligence industry is gaining traction but has struggled to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Paramount May Usher In a Big Change to Hollywood’s Ruling Class | Insights & Events

Family offices have long been part of Hollywood’s DNA, quietly shaping its most iconic moments and technological progress. Paramount Pictures was one of Hollywood’s first family-controlled studios under business titan Adolph...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

From Storage to AI Factories: Data Centre Investment Considerations for Private Capital Investors

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Data centres have become one of the most critical assets of the digital age and form one of the key pillars in modern infrastructure investment. Once viewed as passive storage units, today they power everything from streaming...more

Benesch

Dental/DSO Intelligence Monthly Report: April 2025

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DSOs have experienced several challenges amid the slowing private equity space in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of the private equity space, however, there are signs of a shift, with a number of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 232

First Water, a salmon farming startup, has raised $43 million in its latest funding round, facilitating its efforts to develop a system that supports seafood production while minimizing environmental impact. INTAKE, a B2C...more

Stoel Rives LLP

TrendWatch: Navigating a New Era in M&A

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There’s a kind of silence that happens before a deal falls apart. It’s not dramatic. No slammed phones, no hostile emails. Just a slow drip of delays, caveats, and quiet rejections. It’s a familiar sound to anyone navigating...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 231

Hershey announced that it plans on acquiring LesserEvil, a better-for-you popcorn brand, for approximately $750 million. GrubMarket, a San Francisco based food logistics company, has raised $50 million in funding to...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 230

Chef Robotics, an AI-Robotic systems for meal assembly in food manufacturing plants, announced that it raised $43.1 million in its Series A round....more

White & Case LLP

Buy the power: Data center deals on the rise in the US

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The breakneck pace of growth in artificial intelligence is powering investment in the red-hot data infrastructure subsector - Data center dealmaking is ramping up across the globe as the rapid development of AI pushes up...more

Woodruff Sawyer

If Gen AI Is a Bubble, Here's How Investment Managers Can Stay Protected

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In 2024, global venture investment in generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) grew to more than $56 billion, a 94% year-over-year increase from 2023. From 2023 to 2025, Nvidia’s market cap has grown from about $500...more

White & Case LLP

From personalization to supply chain optimization: How AI is shaping deals outside the tech arena

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Investors are ramping up AI-related M&A to secure cutting-edge capabilities and market-beating returns, but high valuations and open-source disruption are forcing a rethink on deal strategy - Global M&A saw a year-on-year...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blakes upRound™: February 2025

In this Edition - The venture debt market continues to expand and play a prominent role in the Canadian venture capital market....more

Mintz Edge

The State of the Funding Market for AI Companies: A 2024 - 2025 Outlook

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as an influential technology, driving notable investments across various industries in recent years. In 2024, venture capital (VC) funding for AI companies reached record levels,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: AI & Technology

Technology continued to be an industry of particular focus for private equity (PE) through 2024. Blackstone’s $16 billion acquisition of data center platform Airtrunk was the largest deal of Q3 2024, according to Ernst &...more

MoFo Tech

AI Trends for 2025 - Has AI Put Japan’s Startup Scene on the World Map?

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While Japan has a longstanding reputation for innovation, its startup market has not historically drawn the same degree of interest as those in the U.S. and other countries, despite a tenfold increase in ecosystem investment...more

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