Private equity and venture capital's substantial dry powder reserves are a little lighter after an extended downturn in fundraising. Venture capital dry powder hit its year-end high in 2023, peaking ...

The private equity market may see its first significant slowdown in fundraising activity in five years, according to the annual 2025 US Private Equity Outlook report published by PitchBook Data Inc.

Private-equity firms accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars for new funds in 2020 and 2021. As 2025 unfolds, they will face growing pressure to invest it. And some managers might need to ask ...

Firms should seek out opportunities to unload capital, drive portfolio growth and prove PE’s potential to their investors. Private equity must invest unused capital (“dry powder”) or risk losing ...

Capital waiting to be deployed in the private equity market, or so-called dry powder, rose 8% to a record $2.59 trillion in the past year, S&P said Tuesday. S&P said the mountain of unused capital in ...

PitchBook noted in its latest global private market fundraising report that dry powder on the rise despite a fairly tough fundraising environment. PitchBook also mentioned in the extensive research ...

Private equity’s $2 trillion pile of cash is set to fuel M&A opportunities in 2025. Private equity firms are sitting on an unprecedented war chest: roughly $2 trillion in uncalled capital. Often ...

Global private equity and venture capital funds have a record $2.6T in uncommitted capital waiting to close deals, according to S&P Global. “That dry powder is big capital — they're conservative and ...

Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses what private equity managers need to do with capital on the side lines with Kade Thomas of Emery Oak Partners. Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast ...