Whenever someone says, name the ‘top’ or ‘best’ private equity firms, I feel the only way to truly measure the success of a firm is via its ability to generate consistent returns for investors. This means delivering a list based on IRRs.
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The 2 Best Podcasts Focused on M&A and Private Equity
If you’re into podcasts and follow the venture/start-up community – as you know, there’s a number of useful shows. Whether you’re interested in funded tech and news (This Week in Startups), VC interviews (The Twenty Minute VC), or bootstrapping Saas strategies (Startups for the Rest of Us), there’s no shortage of listening … Continue reading “The 2 Best Podcasts Focused on M&A and Private Equity”
Read MoreHewlett Packard Enterprise Makes 3rd Acquisition of 2017, 4th Overall
Yesterday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the acquisition of behavior analytics start-up Niara. Niara will be folded into Aruba, which the original HP acquired in 2015 for $2.7B.
Read MoreProduct Update – Enhanced Company Search Results and Portfolio Level M&A
With the end goal of getting more ‘complete picture’ data in front of users (less clicking), we’re slowly going through each search interface and profile on Mergr and updating how info is delivered. Update #1 If you haven’t already checked it out – the result table on the Company Search page has … Continue reading “Product Update – Enhanced Company Search Results and Portfolio Level M&A”
Read MoreNetflix Has Not Made 1 Acquisition
Netflix is no stranger to acquiring – content at least (although it did acquire the domain DVD.com in 2012 as well), however in terms of M&A, Netflix has yet to do what nearly every one of its large, well-known neighbors in Silicon Valley does with such precision on a regular basis … Continue reading “Netflix Has Not Made 1 Acquisition”
Read MoreThe Best Private Equity Newsletters
When it comes to private equity email newsletters, might as well cut to the chase and let you know that there are really only 4 daily newsletters focused on PE worth subscribing to. In no particular order they are,
Read MorePitchbook Alternative Mergr – The Simple and Easy-to-Use PE/M&A Database
Pitchbook is an awesome piece of PE and M&A database software. It offers a comprehensive view into the world of alternative assets and gets better at what it does everyday. However, not everyone needs the level of granularity that Pitchbook does so well – data of course which you have to … Continue reading “Pitchbook Alternative Mergr – The Simple and Easy-to-Use PE/M&A Database”
Read MoreWhether legal or financial, easily search M&A advisors by the deals they’ve done
We’ve recently made an update to our M&A Advisor search interface that makes identifying advisors by their historical deal activity super simple. This is particularly useful if your interest isn’t so much who the advisor is or where it’s located, but the actual work they’ve done. Here’s the new advisor search component … Continue reading “Whether legal or financial, easily search M&A advisors by the deals they’ve done”
Read MoreMergr + Photos, a better and more unique user experience and product
While our primary focus when it comes to companies in the Mergr db will always be to capture M&A activity – just to do something a bit different then other dbs out there, one of the side projects we’re slowly working on is adding photos of the companies we track as … Continue reading “Mergr + Photos, a better and more unique user experience and product”
Read MorePrivate Equity Backed Companies, How to Easily Build Lists of Companies Owned by PE Groups
The goal of everything we do at Mergr is to make getting the data users need as dead simple as possible – and one of the frequent types of searches users look to build are lists of private equity backed companies.
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