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Startup shutdowns, fire sales and hard pivots are under way in the face of a downturn in the venture market. Startup shutdowns, fire sales and hard pivots are under way in the face of a downturn in the venture market. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If…

Bed Bath & Beyond is in talks to keep its Buybuy Baby chain open through a possible sale to the private-equity owner of children’s apparel retailer Janey and Jack, according to people familiar with the matter. Bed Bath & Beyond is in talks to keep its Buybuy Baby chain open through a possible sale to the private-equity owner of children’s apparel retailer Janey and Jack, according to people familiar with the matter. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno…

A traditional emphasis on business school credentials is waning as costs rise and private-equity firms seek more diverse recruits. A traditional emphasis on business school credentials is waning as costs rise and private-equity firms seek more diverse recruits. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

Slumping valuations for technology companies are making managers at emerging-markets startups direct their attention to capital discipline after years of booming investments and rising valuations that shunted aside cash concerns, according to venture-capital fund managers from areas such as Africa, Asia and Latin America. “In the last five years, the environment that basically has trained or educated on the ground was not the right environment,” said Kuo-Yi Lim, a co-founder and managing partner at…

Private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LP is tapping its newest and largest fund to date as it plans to take Coupa Software Inc. private in an all-cash acquisition with an enterprise value of $8 billion. The cloud-based business-spend management platform said Monday that its shareholders will be paid $81 a share, which represents a 77% premium to Coupa’s closing price Nov. 22, the last full trading day before media reports of a potential takeover surfaced. Private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LP is…

Apollo Global Management Inc. agreed to sell wireless tower company Parallel Infrastructure to a buyer backed by Palistar Capital, which plans to invest more than $1 billion to expand the business. The deal would create one of the largest cellphone infrastructure companies in the U.S., with more than 2,000 sites either operating or under construction across 41 states, once Parallel is combined with developer Harmoni Towers LLC, New York-based Palistar said. Palistar acquired Harmoni in June 2020. The...…