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UK Startup Funding 2025: A Guide for Early-Stage Founders

Equidam

Virgin StartUp’s Empower 100 program provides fully-funded acceleration for diverse founders, and Google’s Black Founders Fund and 1000 Black Voices offer non-equity support. Alternative funding sources provide viable equity alternatives Beyond traditional VC, UK startups have access to diverse non-equity funding options.

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Professional Insights: Christine Sawchuk

IVSC

During this time, I started teaching courses for CBV Institute’s Program of Studies, and also volunteered for several Institute committees. It will be necessary to supplement foundational valuation principles with newer and more up-to-date valuation metrics. I would highly, highly recommend it!

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Divestitures & Carve-Outs: Top 4 Real-World Truths

M&A Leadership Council

The result: divestitures are often “fire sales,” where companies wait too long to divest and end up leaving money on the table. And as more companies embrace the “portfolio-managed enterprise” model, divestitures will play a more central role in these value-driven organizations, much as they do in today’s private equity firms.

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The Full Guide to Pre-MBA Internships: Are They Worth It?

Brian DeChesare

But then recruiting moved up, the MBA process became more structured, and now we have 4-year-olds aiming for “Target Kindergartens” so they can eventually get into investment banking ~15 years in the future. I’ll answer these questions, but, as usual, we need to start with some descriptions: Table Of Contents What is a Pre-MBA Internship?

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The Innovators 2024—Best Financial Innovation Labs

Global Finance

Other technological innovations from these labs address everything from improving anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and easing underwriting processes to speeding up customer onboarding and improving cash management for small and midsize enterprise (SME) clients. In exchange, BTG Pactual received 3% equity.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Mergers and Acquisitions–2022 and 2023

Reynolds Holding

billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware and Adobe’s $20 billion acquisition of Figma, as well as a number of large private equity-backed deals, including the $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems by affiliates of Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, Zendesk’s $10.2

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The State of VC in Q1 2025 [The Equidam Podcast – 14]

Equidam

Should I get into it and start sharing some of the first charts? Okay, let me pull up. There is no reason for people to start less companies. Those are the people that start their own ventures, that start their own hustles and freelancing jobs that turn into companies. So what do you think? The first chart.