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The beginning of a brand new season is at all times a great time to revisit previous predictions and search for new subjects to trace. Immediately, dry powder and college spinouts. — Anna
Document ranges of dry powder in Europe?
In November of final 12 months, PitchBook made so many predictions on enterprise capital and personal fairness in Europe that it’s now reexamining them in a recent report.
The brand new report, titled “European Non-public Capital Outlook: H1 Comply with-Up,” doesn’t simply take a look at whether or not PitchBook analysts had been proper or improper. It additionally reevaluates its forecasts and what modified since then to make new assertions.
A number of of PitchBook’s new predictions must do with personal fairness, however the one which caught my consideration relates extra on to startups: the quantity of enterprise capital which will or will not be obtainable to them.
Also known as dry powder, the cash raised by VC funds that hasn’t been invested but was anticipated by PitchBook to succeed in file ranges in Europe this 12 months. Its EMEA Non-public Capital analyst Nicolas Moura stands by the prediction, however the nuances between then and now are price exploring.