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Diverse Logistics Acquires Massiano Logistics, Expanding Final Mile Delivery Network
Argosy Private Equity's portfolio company Diverse Logistics acquires Massiano Logistics, expanding its final mile delivery network.
Jun 20, 20251 min read


Black Soldier Fly Market to Reach $5.60 Billion by 2035, Growing at 29% CAGR from 2025
Black Soldier Fly market projected to grow from $0.44B to $5.60B by 2035, driven by sustainable protein demand and waste management needs.
Jun 20, 20251 min read


Scale Operations Management Redefines Ecommerce Success in Post-Bubble Era
ScaleOps, led by Andrew Ukpabi, transforms ecommerce brands into cash-flowing machines and flippable assets with enterprise-grade valuations.
Jun 20, 20251 min read


Rosenberg & Parker Expands its Global Footprint to the UK
Rosenberg & Parker, the world's largest surety-only broker, opens a new office in London, expanding its global presence.
Jun 19, 20252 min read


Profound Raises $20M to Help Brands Navigate AI-Powered Search
Profound secures $20M Series A to expand its AI visibility platform, helping brands control their presence in AI-powered search results.
Jun 19, 20251 min read


Accel-KKR Receives Minority Equity Investment from PACT Capital Partners
PACT Capital Partners makes minority investment in Accel-KKR to support growth and increase capital commitments to current strategies.
Jun 18, 20251 min read


West Texas 5,000 Acre AI Data Center Site Fast-Tracks 500 MW Behind-Meter Power
5,000-acre West Texas site offers 500 MW behind-the-meter power by 2026, positioning Texas as a global AI data center hub.
Jun 18, 20251 min read


Clearlake Capital Strengthens Team with New Senior Hires
Clearlake Capital adds four senior executives to bolster its investment and O.P.S.® teams, expanding its global presence.
Jun 17, 20252 min read


EQT sets target fund size for EQT XI at EUR 23 billion
EQT announces EUR 23 billion target for EQT XI fund, continuing its investment strategy in line with predecessor fund EQT X.
Jun 15, 20251 min read


BlackRock Plots Private Markets Expansion Strategy at Investor Day
BlackRock executives presented their comprehensive private markets expansion strategy at their 2025 Investor Day, outlining how the world's largest asset manager plans to double its operating income by 2030 through aggressive growth in private credit, infrastructure, and technology platforms.
Jun 12, 20253 min read


Blue Owl's Marc Zahr Targets $20 Trillion Real Estate Opportunity
Marc Zahr, Co-President and Head of Real Estate at Blue Owl Capital, recently appeared on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast for a live interview in Miami to discuss how his firm has transformed from a $17 million startup in 2009 to managing $64 billion in real estate assets today. Zahr identifies a massive market inefficiency: $20 trillion of property, plant and equipment sits on investment-grade companies' balance sheets as non-earning assets, creating unprecedented opportunit
Jun 11, 20253 min read


Elliott Davis Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Flexpoint Ford, Completes CEO Succession Plan
Elliott Davis receives investment from Flexpoint Ford, names John Otten as new CEO effective July 1, 2025, as part of strategic growth plan.
Jun 11, 20252 min read


Apollo's Scott Kleinman On Public-Private Market Convergence
Scott Kleinman, Co-President of Apollo Asset Management, spoke to the Money Maze Podcast from New York about what he calls the "irreversible convergence" of public and private markets.
Jun 8, 20253 min read


Apollo Maps Future of Principal-Aligned Asset Management
John Zito, Co-President of $800 billion Apollo Global Management, reveals how his firm executed a fundamental transformation of asset management through its merger with insurance company Athene on the Invest Like the Best podcast. Speaking with host Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Zito explains that Apollo now deploys over $300 billion of its own capital alongside clients rather than simply collecting fees on third-party money, creating unprecedented alignment in an industry built on
Jun 7, 20253 min read


Ares Co-President on Private Wealth's $500B Opportunity
Kipp deVeer, co-president of Ares Management, joined Ted Seides on Capital Allocators to discuss the seismic shift occurring as private wealth enters the alternatives market previously dominated by institutions.
Jun 3, 20253 min read


Private Equity Giants Split on Strategic Direction
The three largest players in private equity—Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR—are pursuing dramatically different business models after decades of similar strategies, according to the Financial Times. While all three firms dominated the industry using comparable approaches through 2020, the post-pandemic era has revealed sharp strategic divergences that could determine their resilience during market downturns.
Jun 3, 20254 min read


Thoma Bravo Completes $34.4 Billion Fundraise
Thoma Bravo raises $34.4 billion across three funds, demonstrating strong investor support for its software investment strategy.
Jun 3, 20251 min read


Private Markets Need Tech Overhaul for Mainstream Push
Cesar Estrada, private markets head at Arcesium and former State Street executive who managed $1 trillion in assets, warns that alternative asset managers face a critical technology bottleneck as they diversify beyond traditional strategies. Speaking on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, Estrada argues that firms expanding into evergreen funds, wealth management, and asset-based finance are hitting operational walls that threaten growth.
May 31, 20253 min read


New Mountain's Steve Klinsky on Private Equity Evolution
Steve Klinsky, founder and CEO of New Mountain Capital, sat down for an extensive interview about his 44-year journey in private equity, from co-founding Goldman Sachs' first buyout group in 1981 to building New Mountain into a $55 billion alternative asset manager. Klinsky, who witnessed the industry grow from 20 firms managing $1 billion to 5,000 firms managing $5 trillion, argues that private equity has evolved from a financing mechanism into a sophisticated business-build
May 30, 20253 min read


Stanford Expert Breaks Down $140 Trillion Pension Fund World
Dr. Ashby Monk, Executive Director of Stanford Research Initiative on Long Term Investing, reveals how pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments—managing $140 trillion globally—operate fundamentally differently from typical businesses.
May 29, 20253 min read
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