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3 weeks ago | 
pitchbook.com | Jessica Hamlin |Jordan Rubio
Since Yale University’s late chief investment officer David Swensen pioneered the “Yale model"—an institutional portfolio significantly weighted toward alternative assets—university endowments in the US have grown into some of the largest investors in the private markets. The University of California’s investment manager, UC Investments, for example, has $34.2 billion of its nearly $180 billion portfolio invested across PE, private credit, real estate and real assets.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
pitchbook.com | Jacob E. Robbins |Jordan Rubio
The AI healthcare sector has attracted significant investor attention, raising $10.5 billion in VC funding in 2024
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Jacob E. Robbins |Jordan Rubio
Data is fueling the AI machine—but amid unprecedented expansion, its engine shows signs of strain. That’s why investors are pumping money into data infrastructure startups. These companies design tools and frameworks to collect, manage, process, store and analyze massive amounts of data. They are a core part of the foundation for the large language models on which generative AI is built.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Jordan Rubio |James Thorne
The schools that educated today's female founders.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Jordan Rubio |James Thorne
PitchBook's annual list compares undergraduate and graduate programs by tallying up the number of startup founders among their alumni.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Jacob E. Robbins |Jordan Rubio
In gaming, content is king. VC investment in the gaming vertical is back on the rise with three consecutive quarters of growth, according to PitchBook’s Q2 2024 Gaming Report. In Q2, deal value jumped 43.4% over the previous quarter to $1.8 billion, although the number of deals slipped to 136, a decline of 24%. The largest segment driving growth within gaming is also its most important: content with startups creating new, unique games for players.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Jacob E. Robbins |Jordan Rubio
Clean energy is on a hot streak with investors. VC funding in the sector has remained historically high since its 2021 peak, with deal value hitting $3.5 billion across 197 deals in Q1 2024, according to PitchBook’s Q1 2024 Clean Energy Report. More investors are flocking to the category. In recent days, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the Bill Gates-backed firm, revealed it has raised $839 million toward its third flagship fund as climate-focused investments gain steady traction.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Andrew Akers |Jordan Rubio
PitchBook’s buyout replication portfolio (BRP) captures the fundamental characteristics of buyout investing within a portfolio of public stocks—including factors like sector selection, leverage and security selection. LPs can use the BRP as a better way to benchmark buyout funds that more appropriately captures their risk and return profile than standard indexes, such as the S&P 500 or Russell 2000.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Jacob E. Robbins |Jordan Rubio
Investors have had their fill of foodtech. VC investment in the vertical has been static for the last six quarters, according to PitchBook data, hovering around $2 billion in quarterly deal value. In Q1 2024, $2.2 billion was invested into the space across 246 deals, a minor increase from the previous quarter. But investors aren’t dining and dashing entirely.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Jacob E. Robbins |Jordan Rubio
Mega-deals continue to cast a wide shadow over the AI venture landscape. Much of the money is going to companies working on horizontal platforms—those building, deploying or fine-tuning AI models. In May, xAI, the Elon Musk-led large language model creator, raised a $6 billion Series B. Mistral AI, a French LLM provider, raised $640 million this month. And Cohere, another AI model developer, is reportedly in talks to raise $450 million.
