Blackstone
Global alternative asset manager with flagship funds across private equity, real estate, and private credit.
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“which operates a deposit network for banks and could be valued at over $10 billion in a deal, Reuters reported.”
“Blackstone and Warburg Pincus hired Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim to sell IntraFi, a fintech that could fetch $10b.”
“Blackstone raised $8.7b for its fifth energy transition fund.”
“Blackstone raises $8.7 billion for its fifth energy transition fund, underscoring surging power demands from AI infrastructure.”
Source→“Expect a lot of focus on AI-related private credit investments. Thus far, it's been a miserable year for all of their stock prices.”
“Reese Witherspoon and France's Mediawan agreed to buy back Witherspoon's production firm Hello Sunshine from Blackstone-backed Candle Media.”
“AirTrunk, an Australian data center operator owned by Blackstone and CPP Investment Board, is delaying a $1.5b REIT IPO until 2027.”
“Lambda... is reportedly raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation. The purported deal leads are Blackstone and Coatue Management.”
Source→“Informa (LSE: INF) agreed to buy B2B live events business Clarion Events for £2.24b from Blackstone.”
“ASK Investment Managers, backed by Blackstone, agreed to acquire SageOne Investment Managers, an Indian portfolio management services company.”
“Australia-based data center operator Firmus is planning to allocate half of the shares in its $5.5 billion IPO to existing backers including Nvidia and Blackstone.”
Source→“Firmus, the Australian data center operator backed by Blackstone and Nvidia, is seeking a $30.6 billion valuation in a $5 billion IPO, nearly triple its valuation from two months ago.”
Source→“CVC, Blackstone, and BAE Systems are among those exploring an offer for Robin Radar Systems, a Dutch group backed by Parcom that could fetch around $2.2b.”
“Blackstone launched Falcata, a defense technology company formed through the acquisitions of TSC and Applied Systems Engineering, committing more than $1b in debt and equity.”
“raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation this month from Khosla Ventures, Blackstone, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and others”
Source→“Its customers include Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada, Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile”
Source→“Cheapest marketing ever on LinkedIn. Gets to every financial advisor in the country. And it worked.”
Source→“Blackstone's PE returns over the past 12 months led its peers, according to our dashboard.”
“Cheapest marketing ever on LinkedIn. Gets to every financial advisor in the country, and it worked.”
“Joseph Baratta, who leads Blackstone's private equity strategy, is prepping to leave the firm.”
“Firmus... is preparing a $5 billion IPO that could value it at up to $60 billion even as it expects a $77 million first-half loss.”
Source→“Data center operator Firmus, which is backed by investors including Nvidia, Blackstone and Coatue, is seeking to raise $5 billion in its Australia IPO.”
Source→“GFL Environmental — Waste management company facing competing take-private bids from Brookfield/IFM and KKR/ECP/Blackstone — illustrative of continued mega-buyout appetite despite market uncertainty.”
Source→“Factory — AI coding agent developer. Secured a $200 million round at a $5 billion valuation from investors including Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Sequoia.”
Source→“While firms such as Blackstone and Apollo Global Management have had success launching evergreen products focused on easily scalable asset classes, such as infrastructure and large buyout, VC is inherently 'capacity constrained,' according to Callahan.”
Source→“Blackstone and TPG both touted direct stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic... TPG with OpenAI, and Blackstone with Anthropic.”
Source→“Apollo announced the largest private credit financing on record, a $35 billion deal with Broadcom to build AI infrastructure, with Blackstone as a lead investor.”
Source→“Blackstone and Google also announced a joint venture to stand up a TPU cloud.”
Source→“MacLean Power Systems… agreed to acquire Delta Star, a Lynchburg, Va.-based provider of power transformers and mobile substation solutions.”
Source→“Younghee Choi joined H.I.G. Capital as head of Asia capital formation. She previously was with Blackstone.”
Source→“Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Anthropic are targeting portfolio companies in the first wave of a $1.5 billion joint venture to transform businesses”
Source→“Ode, a joint venture formed by Anthropic and firms including Blackstone, agreed to acquire VC-backed Casper Studios, an AI consultancy startup.”
Source→“Ode, a joint venture formed by Anthropic and firms including Blackstone, agreed to acquire VC-backed Casper Studios, an AI consultancy startup.”
Source→“Etched, a San Jose, Calif.-based builder of frontier inference clusters, raised $700m at a $21b valuation. Jane Street led, joined by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, a16z, Tiger Global, Bain Capital Ventures, Neo, Primary, Stripes, Positive Sum, and Blackstone.”
Source→“Firmus recently raised US$2b at more than a $10.5b post-money valuation from Blackstone, Jane Street, Coatue, and Nvidia.”
Source→“Blackstone and La Caisse led a C$2.5 billion ($1.8 billion) investment for a 25% stake in Aeroplan, a travel loyalty program owned by Air Canada.”
Source→“Firmus recently raised US$2b at more than a $10.5b post-money valuation from Blackstone, Jane Street, Coatue, and Nvidia.”
Source→“Nvidia yesterday announced plans to raise around $500 billion to help finance AI infrastructure buildouts, in partnership with six of North America's largest investment firms.”
“Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Blackstone-backed power connections and infrastructure company Lancium”
Source→“Blackstone-backed Safe Harbor acquiring NYSE-listed MarineMax for $1.5B”
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