Roblox, which saw its business boom last year amid the pandemic, is now one of the most valuable VC-backed private companies in the world—but it won’t be staying private for long. And that’s one of 10 things you need to know from the first week of 2021: 1....
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Co. is overhauling its structure and deploying capital to double in size to nearly half a trillion dollars in the next decade, a plan that will vault it into the top ranks of the world’s sovereign wealth funds. With stakes in businesses...
Arctos Sports Partners, a private equity firm co-led by former Madison Square Garden CEO Doc O’Connor, is seeking permission to build a portfolio of minority stakes in NBA teams, according to people familiar with the matter. Madison Square Garden is the parent company...
The ongoing impact of the Covid-19 crisis and geopolitical tensions are seen as the key risks for deal-making in Asia Pacific. But private equity (PE) investors still regard the region as an attractive market, offering a huge opportunity for the PE industry, according...
Brazilian online home goods platform MadeiraMadeira has raised $190 million in a new funding round that valued it above $1 billion, the company said on Thursday. Existing investor Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Dynamo led this fifth funding round, which also included... 