Top News & Analysis
Cover Story
Underserved Education Market Beckons
Ignored by many private equity firms. Financing in abundance. Subscription-based revenue models on the rise. The education industry offers some extremely attractive attributes that should whet the appetite of any private equity pro.
Fund News
Denver Shop Eyes $350M For Fund III
Denver-based Platte River Ventures expects to start raising its third fund in the coming weeks, two sources told Buyouts.
Deal News
Sumeru’s New PortCo Seeks Tech-Enabled Health Care Services Cos.
MEDSEEK, a provider of online services for hospitals and patients that Silver Lake Sumeru has agreed to acquire, is already in preliminary deal conversations with potential acquisition targets and has a list of “dozens” of potential add-on deals, a source close to Sumeru told Buyouts.
Fresh Capital
For Fund IV, Vista Equity Views $3.5B Close
Part of a new breed of mega sector firms, Vista Equity Partners, a San Francisco-based technology buyout firm, closed its latest fund, Vista Equity Partners Fund IV LP, having raised $3.5 billion, the firm announced. The amount was $1 billion more than the fund’s initial $2.5 billion target, which Vista attributed to “exceptional LP demand.”
Market Intelligence
Market at a glance
U.S. buyout and mezzanine firms have secured $52.2 billion in commitments so far this year.
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