Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 10, 2024

Conducting due diligence within the mergers and acquisitions space is the process of independently researching and verifying information on a potential company to ensure that a viable investment is made on behalf of stakeholders.

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Alpha Sense BI

MAY 28, 2024

The venture capital landscape continues to test the discipline and diligence of investors and startups alike. Like many other asset classes, venture capital continues to be impacted by lingering macroeconomic factors affecting funding and liquidity prospects. Interest rates are high.

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Alpha Sense BI

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

By quickly gleaning industry activity, you’ll gain valuable insights in real-time that empower you to capitalize on fleeting opportunities. Nothing typifies this more than the first step in any market and competitive landscape analysis or due diligence effort—mapping the landscape.

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Alpha Sense BI

APRIL 29, 2024

Heading into the second half of 2024, venture capital investors remain cautious as they acknowledge persistent challenging dynamics in the landscape. While dry powder reserves have reached record highs, investors are wary about deploying capital with certain recent macroeconomic factors still fresh in mind.

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Alpha Sense BI

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Dynamic workload allocation, guided by machine learning, can ensure energy is used efficiently while balancing computational loads across servers to support both sustainability and performance. Resource optimization is another area where AI excels.

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 26, 2024

These insights contribute to smarter competitive analyses and a better understanding of market position for more strategic planning and comprehensive due diligence. Learn more about business intelligence options, like Expert Insights, in our buyer’s guide, Top Expert Network Companies to Support Your Business Goals.

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Alpha Sense BI

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Venture capital investors can optimize their primary investment research by leveraging AlphaSense to gain quality expert insights , an integrated workflow , faster time to insight , and more comprehensive due diligence. Comprehensive Due Diligence Due diligence is the cornerstone of success in venture capital investments.

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Alpha Sense BI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Leveraging these fresh perspectives can equip researchers with a comprehensive view by learning firsthand perspectives on the strength, weaknesses, and potential of any company or topic.

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Alpha Sense BI

JUNE 21, 2024

Dry powder—or uncommitted capital in the PE space—remains at a record high of nearly $4 trillion. The ability to source and discover potentially lucrative opportunities hinges on executing fundamental, comprehensive research and due diligence , especially when conditions are sub-optimal.

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Alpha Sense BI

JUNE 21, 2024

Understanding Rainbow Capitalism Rainbow washing, pride washing, or pinkwashing are all similar terms that fall under the broader spectrum of rainbow capitalism. Learn more about rainbow capitalism in our blog, Behind the Rainbow: How are Companies Positively Impacting LGBTQ+?

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Alpha Sense BI

DECEMBER 12, 2023

These intangible factors indicate that even the most exhaustive due diligence processes can still leave gaps in the M&A research process. Comprehensive Due Diligence Thorough due diligence on a target company is undeniably the cornerstone of successful M&A.

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Alpha Sense BI

MAY 5, 2023

Around the world, investors are favoring companies that have proven their profitability and that can demonstrate how they have successfully utilized their capital. Energy In 2022, energy prices skyrocketed due to several macroeconomic factors— Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , OPEC+ cutbacks , and inflation.

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Fuld

JULY 26, 2022

Consultant and analysts’ costs during Due Diligence – from preliminary, to Indication of Interest stage, to LoI to MoU stages – these costs only keep rising; further putting downward pressure on IRRs and margins for PE partnership. Now consider the cost side. Driving Change. A Case in point.

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Alpha Sense BI

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While there’s a lot of dry powder waiting to be deployed, firms and investors have become more meticulous with due diligence , seeking diamonds in the rough and looking for structured ways to acquire new assets. . billion for their European Capital XI Fund early in the year. See all U.K. private equity trends here.

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Alpha Sense BI

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

These reports allow strategists to combine context from top-down industry reports with bottom-up peer analysis, on topics like M&A, capex, capital investment, macro conditions, supply chains, and industry headwinds. Start your free trial of AlphaSense today.

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Alpha Sense BI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Increasingly, asset managers are discovering how genAI can optimize their portfolios, enhance trading processes, source deals, and streamline due diligence , among top use cases. According to a recent report from Accel, generative AI startups are garnering more than 40% of all venture capital funding flowing into cloud companies.

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ATTEST

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Or, did becoming top companies enable them to undertake new product development, due to more capital, resources, and revenue for research and development? This, in essence, is about good due-diligence. Stage 2 Build Business Case: This is part of the critical ‘due diligence’ we highlighted earlier.

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Alpha Sense BI

MARCH 28, 2024

The statistics are staggering, both from a monetary cost and human capital perspective. Analysts are tasked with conducting robust research, due diligence , and valuation tasks within short timeframes and with inadequate resources. The true learning curve is steeper out of the gates.

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Alpha Sense BI

AUGUST 18, 2023

Unlike private equity firms, they allow investors to pull out capital depending on the valuation of assets, and are less regulated than mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). They exist to generate alpha, even—and perhaps especially —when the market is down. Hedge funds differ from other investment companies in certain key ways.

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Alpha Sense BI

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Drivers Behind Change in ESG Investing The intentions behind ESG investing are altruistic: to influence the mainstream finance industry into funneling private capital to address global challenges. The post 5 ESG Investing Trends and Developments to Watch in 2023 appeared first on AlphaSense.

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Domo

JANUARY 17, 2019

My partners were involved in a company, getting it ready for a sale, and they needed to facilitate due diligence to allow the potential buyer access to critical information. So, for example, if I can break out sales data by geography, industry and transaction types, I can see that deals about capital raise in the U.S.

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Tinuiti

JULY 14, 2023

The brand plans to capitalize on the halo lead by continuing their basket-builder promotion through Saturday, a full 3 days after the Prime Day event officially ended Are you ready to level-up and see similar results during next year’s Prime Day? This year, customer retention efforts were added, with 2 email blasts and an SMS text.

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Alpha Sense BI

JULY 7, 2023

And while every sector can take advantage of embracing more transparent and ethical business models , there’s one industry well-positioned to reap the benefits of pouring capital into ESG leaders and backing their initiatives: private equity (PE). ESG funds are projected to grow from US$8 trillion today to as much as $30 trillion by 2030.

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Alpha Sense BI

JUNE 29, 2023

Now more than ever, authentic programs and initiatives founded in prioritizing the environmental, social, and governance impact of supply chains prove to be one of the best ways to win over consumers, investors, and their capital—especially during an economic downturn. A good first step is learning the basics of scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

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Alpha Sense BI

APRIL 16, 2024

Capitalizing on Proprietary Knowledge In an age of dwindling resources, it is critical that investment teams can accelerate and centralize research findings and prevent the duplicity of work. Learn how our industry-leading platform can help you sift through the noise, accelerate your research, and bring efficiencies to your workflow.

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Alpha Sense BI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Contingent on asset class, this can include assessment against a benchmark or index, metrics such as internal rate of return and multiple on invested capital for private equity funds. The lower these are, the more capital remains invested and aggregating.

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Alpha Sense BI

MARCH 28, 2024

The statistics are staggering, both from a monetary cost and human capital perspective. Analysts are tasked with conducting robust research, due diligence , and valuation tasks within short timeframes and with inadequate resources. The true learning curve is steeper out of the gates.

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Domo

JULY 31, 2019

I went [to Oregon] to do due diligence, like you do on any business,” he said. He left Skullcandy in 2013 to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Solamere Capital, and then, he found Traeger. What a boring category! A grill is just bent steel.” “I remember the first person I sat with.

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Alpha Sense BI

MAY 2, 2024

Generative AI As a platform purpose-built to drive the world’s biggest business and financial decisions, our Smart Summaries feature leverages our 10+ years of AI tech development and learns from a curated collection of high-quality business content.

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Netbasequid

APRIL 30, 2021

After the Amazon acquisition, benefits for part time workers were cut, upsetting many Whole Foods workers, and tarnishing Jeff Bezos’ image, with headlines that read “Did Whole Foods just give conscious capitalism a swift kick to the curb?”. They’ve learned to never assume and let the data guide their understanding. Crisis Management.

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Alpha Sense BI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By harnessing the power of this new technology , financial professionals can leverage advanced algorithms and deep learning capabilities to analyze vast amounts of financial data , organize unstructured data , identify patterns, and generate valuable insights in a fraction of the time it would ordinarily take.

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Alpha Sense BI

APRIL 19, 2024

On the other hand, 2022 and 2023 brought mass layoffs , falling market capitalizations, and a weakening of global tech spending. 2023 was all about learning the use cases of genAI, as companies raced to introduce their own genAI offerings and capabilities into a fiercely competitive market (i.e. OpenAI’s ChatGPT ).

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Alpha Sense BI

JULY 11, 2023

Now more than ever, authentic programs and initiatives founded in prioritizing the environmental, social, and governance impact of supply chains prove to be one of the best ways to win capital in a competitive marketplace. Further, institutions will need to get their proprietary data ready.

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Alpha Sense BI

MARCH 7, 2024

It will also expand its business territory and increase cash flow, as well as capital returns for shareholders. Ultimately, the industry wants to match the best operator with each asset, to drive performance across operations, and optimize capital and carbon management.

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Alpha Sense BI

JUNE 23, 2023

Speed Up Your Time to Insight With Artificial Intelligence While artificial intelligence (AI) is not strictly necessary for conducting market research, it is the secret weapon behind every organization, investment firm, and venture capital company that is outpacing the competition.

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Netbasequid

APRIL 1, 2021

The speed and functionality of machine learning is growing by the day, leading to a rush to adopt the technology as the fastest means to overall market intelligence. Your brand’s longevity depends on avoiding social missteps and capitalizing on consumer intelligence. Standard methods such as surveys and focus groups, etc.,

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Engage3

MAY 19, 2022

He has a wealth of cross-industry experience in accelerating companies’ growth and raising capital, having spent more than fifteen years in SaaS companies as CFO and COO in industries as varied as manufacturing and biotech. Safaii Board Member Matthew is the founder of Arrowroot Capital. He is also an entrepreneur.

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