We also talk about it all the time
with our portfolio companies at the employee and board level.
Comprehensive due diligence process used for selecting investments and active engagement
with its portfolio companies, seeking to build and realize value.
TPG creates a dedicated Operations Group comprised of industry experts who work
with portfolio companies to ensure they have the support and expertise to solve pressing challenges.
Managed by five partners with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto, Yaletown Partners plays a hands - on role
with portfolio companies.
We also talk about it all the time
with our portfolio companies at the employee and board level.
Nearly everyone will be fundraising and spending a lot less time
with their portfolio companies.
Private equity firms have had to lengthen their investment horizons to create value
with their portfolio companies, from 4.5 years in 2006 to 6 years in 2016; Blackstone, Carlyle Group and others have recently launched funds with longer target holding periods.
We make decisions quickly, and we often participate in follow - on financing rounds
with our portfolio companies.
Throughout the funding process, from evaluating deals to working directly
with portfolio companies, Ana drives BDV's initiatives forward.
Katie prides herself on her data - driven approach to management partnerships, which manifests in a hands - on, collaborative relationship
with portfolio companies and fellow board members.
OpenAir Equity Partners concentrates on Internet of Things investments
with portfolio companies that focus on connected car, home, aircraft and agricultural machinery businesses.
We then work closely
with portfolio companies to accelerate growth through high - impact organic levers, synergistic acquisitions and the addition of world - class talent.
We work collaboratively
with our portfolio companies to evaluate opportunities, make strategic decisions, and execute investment realizations.
Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm that works
with portfolio companies with a goal of enhancing value and keeping stakeholders» interests aligned.
With Verizon's headquarters in New York, this unique space will provide the venture development team the opportunity to collaborate more closely
with our portfolio companies on a regular basis.
Before joining Icon, Debby was a Venture Partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures, where she worked
with portfolio companies as an interim VP of Engineering or CEO.
After the bubble burst in 2000, I was talking about the ideas in Good to Great
with some portfolio companies of venture capitalists.
With those portfolio companies facing the pincer of top - line pressures from a push for private label options combined with the gross - margin pressures from input cost increases, we could easily see increasing distress in food companies in the coming months.
A sizable war chest would allow Globalive to have more influence
with portfolio companies and within the venture capital scene in Canada at large.
No investor wants a portfolio company to bleed money competing
with another portfolio company.
Asked how he's enjoying the gig so far, Ghaffary recalls a recent meeting
with portfolio company Saildrone, an autonomous drone startup that's collecting ocean data and has raised roughly $ 28 million to date.
Those firms able to successfully raise capital will be able to drive better terms and lower valuations
with their portfolio company investments.
In addition, he is sourcing investment opportunities, developing investment theses with industry executives, and works closely
with portfolio company management teams to develop and execute strategic growth and operational improvement plans.
He is involved
with portfolio company oversight, investor relations and is also responsible for the day to day oversight of the finance, fund operations, investor reporting, administrative and tax functions.
As practitioners, not theorists, we work shoulder - to - shoulder
with portfolio company CFOs and their teams — always focusing on flawless execution.
Head of Responsible Investment, Nichola Marshall, explains Sparinvest's engagement policy and approach, and gives an example of a recent engagement
with a portfolio company.
We invest as very active owners, preferring to have strong friendly relationships
with the portfolio company managements and boards, but never afraid to take any and all measures that are in the best interests of protecting and creating value, including proxy fights or other legal steps.
Not exact matches
After Amazon launched the Alexa Fund, one of its
portfolio companies called foul, saying that the
company had cloned its product
with the Echo show.
In order to create a robust
portfolio, you need to balance that risk
with defensive
companies that can hold their ground when markets get rocky.
Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500
with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same
companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his
portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).
Chen has vowed to bring in cash from BlackBerry's large patent
portfolio, and he said today the
company scored two substantial deals — one
with Cisco, and another
with a firm he couldn't name.
Both
companies touted that the acquisitions built up their
portfolios in «better - for - you» snacks, a response to shoppers who have been seeking less - processed fare and labels stacked
with ingredients they understand.
Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets
companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity
portfolio» for clients.
• PeopleFacts, an SNH Capital Partners I
portfolio company, acquired TRAK - 1, a Tulsa, Okla. - based screening platform
with millions of criminal records that complement both platforms» suite of screening products.
The best buys for today's retirement
portfolio are
companies that grow dividends annually and expand earnings every quarter, says Renato Anzovino, vice-president and
portfolio manager
with Heward Investment Management.
James Cole, senior vice-president and
portfolio manager
with Portland Investment Counsel, would rather see a
company that has a long track record of steady growth than one that's been soaring for a year or two.
About Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation is a leading global pure - play vacation ownership
company, offering a diverse
portfolio of quality products, programs and management expertise
with over 65 resorts.
Direxion's iBillionaire Index ETF is barely five weeks old and holds only $ 35 million in assets, but it's generated buzz by investing in 30
companies chosen from the
portfolios of asset managers
with personal net worth of $ 1 billion or more.
Dror says the plan is to create a
portfolio of consumer - based
companies that he's excited to «talk about for more than an hour
with a non-tech audience.»
So, while low oil prices will make this a trying quarter for the entire energy industry,
companies with a more balanced
portfolio of assets should fare better than the pure - plays.
According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own
portfolio,
companies with at least one female founder provided them
with 63 % better returns on investment than
companies with all - male teams.
Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the
company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward
with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their
portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....
In 2014, the fund okayed pay packages at nearly 80 % of the
companies in its
portfolio with excessively compensated CEOs, the study says.
• Nexcore Technology, a
portfolio company of Kidd & Company, acquired Phase 2 Medical Manufacturing, a manufacturer of medical devices with locations in Rochester, N.H., Lafayette, Colo., and Tijuana,
company of Kidd &
Company, acquired Phase 2 Medical Manufacturing, a manufacturer of medical devices with locations in Rochester, N.H., Lafayette, Colo., and Tijuana,
Company, acquired Phase 2 Medical Manufacturing, a manufacturer of medical devices
with locations in Rochester, N.H., Lafayette, Colo., and Tijuana, Mexico.
• PE exits continue to slow: We've got all the ingredients for a seller's market — record high valuations, PE firms
with lots of capital, a healthy corporate market and a growing, aging
portfolio company inventory.
I spoke
with Mabus yesterday, who told me he plans to help GV
portfolio companies scale their teams, instill cultures, and run large organizations.
• G.E.T. Enterprises, a
portfolio company of Olympus Partners, merged
with Winco, a maker of kitchenware and tableware.
Admittedly, after years of acquisitions, Berkshire's bottom line has more to do
with the performance of the increasingly large
companies it owns — including, for instance, railroad giant BNSF and Heinz — and less to do
with the returns of its stock market
portfolio.
Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio c
Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm
with more than 300
portfolio companiescompanies.
But he's still surprised by the brazenness
with which Amazon has gone after one of its own
portfolio companies.