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Research Outline
Prepared for Tsur | Delivered February 25, 2020
Online Private Equity Marketplace Trends
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Goals
To promote a proposed solution for the private equity marketplace industy by researching 4-5 recent trends in the area such as major challenges and investor experiences, along with examples of the trends.
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Early Findings
Limitations to Exisiting Private Equity Systems
Gainsight
found that there are current limitations to existing private equity systems that is affecting customer success.
Gainsight states that the challenges in customer success necessitates a
separate platform
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four main challenges
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Using Third-Parties
Private equity firms
are using third-parties to help with internal valuation requirements for financial reporting since there is a large amount of capital and resources needed to make a deal.
An example of a third-party being used is
VRC
.
These third-parties can
independently evaluate portfolio
investments and allows the equity firm to outsource work that takes stress off of teams.
Continued Rise of Mega-Funds
2019's
mega-fund numbers
were projected to surpass those of 2018. An
international report
found that during the number of mega-funds from Q1 to Q3 was 4x as high as the same amount of time in 2018.
Fintech
companies are the leading industry in mega-funds. In 2018, venture capitals raised by U.S. tech start-ups totaled
$100 million
, which came from mega-funds. An example of a fintech company that used mega-funds was the San Francisco-company
Blend
.
Summary of Initial Research
Through our initial hour of research we were able to find private equity market trends. However, they were not specifically related to platforms.
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