Henry Ward, CEO and co-founder of Carta, a technology company managing cap tables and equity for over 50,000 private companies representing trillions in institutional capital, spoke with Bloomberg's Barry Ritholtz about the structural transformation underway in private markets. Ward argues that congressional efforts to push companies toward public listings miss the point entirely—the future lies in creating safe retail access to private capital.

Bain & Company's Technology Report 2025 reveals that technology deals increased their share of all buyouts to 22% in the first half of 2025, up from 19% at year-end 2024, but the era of easy returns from simply riding software growth is ending. Private equity investors must fundamentally shift their value creation strategies as software market penetration flattens and traditional revenue sources lose steam.

Orlando Bravo, founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo—the world's largest software-focused private equity firm managing $179 billion in assets—shared his formula for building one of the industry's best-performing firms at the All-In Summit 2025.

Alternative asset managers are experiencing their highest levels of optimism about exit activity and IPO markets since before the 2022 rate hikes, with several industry leaders signaling that the pause in activity is behind them. Glenn Schorr, senior managing director and senior research analyst at Evercore ISI who has covered alternative asset managers since the first firms went public.

In Brief: The private equity industry faces unprecedented complexity as multiple independent factors—higher interest rates, fractured...

Private markets firms face a critical technology architecture decision that will determine their ability to compete as the industry undergoes massive structural changes including retailization, insurance partnerships, and new product launches.

Private markets' spreadsheet-based infrastructure will be fully automated by AI within years, not decades.

Nic Humphries, Senior Partner and Executive Chairman of HG Capital, one of the world's top 10 largest private equity firms with over $100 billion in assets under management, warns that companies must aggressively adopt AI technologies or face being disrupted by startups.

Erik Hirsch, co-CEO of Hamilton Lane, which manages nearly $1 trillion in private assets, detailed this credit revolution and its implications for both borrowers and investors on Bloomberg's Masters in Business podcast with Barry Ritholtz.

Private equity firms are abandoning traditional value creation playbooks in favor of organic growth strategies as prolonged high interest rates and extended exit timelines force a fundamental industry transformation. According to Alvarez & Marsal's inaugural North American survey of 50 PE investors and portfolio executives, firms are implementing comprehensive operational improvements and AI-powered initiatives across portfolio companies rather than relying on multiple expans

Vantager launches to modernize how Limited Partners assess and act on private market fund data—delivering structure, speed, and strategic insight through AI.

Philipp Freise, Co-Head of European Private Equity at KKR and manager of Europe's largest private fund at $8 billion, argues that the current hangover from 2021's artificial liquidity surge is cyclical rather than structural, though resolution requires fundamental changes to how capital flows to individual investors.

Private equity firms must fundamentally shift from financial engineering to backing businesses with genuine organic growth as higher interest rates eliminate traditional return drivers like leverage and multiple arbitrage. Nic Humphries, Senior Partner and Executive Chairman of Hg, demonstrates how three decades of focused software investing has built Europe's second-largest technology conglomerate by prioritizing customer value over financial manipulation.

CRED raises $15M seed round to provide AI-powered predictive intelligence platform for enterprises, combining internal and external data.

Campfire secures $35M Series A funding to develop AI-native ERP software, challenging legacy incumbents in the $1T market.

HealthpointCapital acquires majority stake in ImmersiveTouch, enhancing surgical planning and navigation with VR/AR technology.

David Breach, President and Chief Operating Officer of Vista Equity Partners, argues that institutional investors alone cannot provide the capital needed to fully capitalize on the AI-driven software revolution, creating an imperative for top-tier firms to expand into private wealth channels.

Private markets needs data standards as assets hit $13T - new S&P, Cambridge, Mercer partnership aims to solve fragmentation.

According to S&P Global's recent Future of Capital Markets report, private credit markets are fundamentally reshaping capital markets through customized financing solutions, while tokenization and AI agents promise to revolutionize asset management and trading infrastructure. The convergence of these technologies could transform how capital flows and enable unprecedented scale in fragmented markets.

The private equity industry is experiencing an unprecedented liquidity crisis with distributions to LPs falling to just 11% of net asset value in 2024—a level not seen since the 2008 financial crisis—despite the absence of a recession.