Japan’s Softbank Group Corp reached an agreement to invest 250 million reais ($48 million) in pet products online retailer Petlove, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. The investment will come from Softbank’s Latin America fund, adding to previous venture...
In the competition for a federal bailout, venture capital won the first round. Now, private equity is fighting back — and winning. The first round was the $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program, which provides forgivable loans of up to 2.5 times companies’ monthly...
Private equity firms won’t waste another crisis, EY predicts. If the pandemic pushes the economy into a recession, investment companies will put money to work a lot faster than they did during the last major downturn in 2008, according to a report published Wednesday...
Dealmakers are turning to drones to help complete transactions in the era of social distancing. Coty Inc. and the suitors for its professional beauty unit that could fetch as much as $8 billion are considering conducting due diligence by flying drones across...
Insight Partners announced this morning the final close of a massive $9.5 billion growth equity fund, dubbed Fund XI, its largest to date. The New York-based firm said it will use the money to continue to invest in “high potential software companies” in the form of... 