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One of the many consequences of COVID was a shift in strategies among investors. The chart above is from PitchBook’s Quantitative Perspectives: US PE Enters a New Regime. It shows a relative spike in growth funds starting in mid-2021, relative to all fundraising done that year. The landscape had shifted at the time, with GPs finding growth-oriented opportunities and LPs anxious to get exposure to them. Both fund counts and fund value leapfrogged their historical averages as a result.
Fast forward a few months, the landscape feels like its shifting yet again. While there is a lot of dry powder out there, its worth remembering what much of it is earmarked for. In this case, growth-oriented funds that were raised in response to the COVID recovery. In other words, many of the funds available today were raised under different circumstances, even if those circumstances weren’t that long ago.
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