Buy, Sell, or Wait: What We Learned from Two Private Equity Sponsors, an Investment Banker, a CFO and a Lawyer

Last night, we hosted a panel for the CFO Executive Forum, an Open Future Forum community, on a question that arises at nearly every board meeting of a venture-backed software company: whether to buy, sell, or wait. The audience included private equity sponsors, venture investors, founders and finance leaders.

Control capital for growth. Where venture ends and buyouts begin.

It’s Wednesday and another edition of The Growth Docket. What does “growth equity” mean for me: it’s where venture capital meets private equity.

Record Startup Shutdowns and a Market That Is Moving Forward

This year, more venture-backed companies shut down than at any point on record, according to data published last week by Andreessen Horowitz. The largest share of those closures comes from companies founded between 2019 and 2021, a period when interest rates were near zero and capital was easy to raise.