| History of private equity and venture capital |
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| Early history |
| (origins of modern private equity) |
| The 1980s |
| (leveraged buyout boom) |
| The 1990s |
| (leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble) |
| The 2000s |
| (dot-com bubble to the credit crunch) |
| The 2010s |
| (expansion) |
| The 2020s |
| (COVID-19 recession) |
In the 2010s Private equity massively grew.[1] As of 2019, there were nearly 7,000 private equity firms within the United States, nearly $2.5T globally in unspent cash (known as dry powder), and dealmaking in private equity accounted for 13% of global acquisitions.[2][3]
- ^ "A Decade of Growth for U.S. Private Equity". insight.factset.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ Vandevelde, Mark (15 October 2021). "How private equity came to resemble the sprawling empires it once broke up". www.ft.com. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ Espinoza, Javier; Platt, Eric (27 June 2019). "Private equity races to spend record $2.5tn cash pile". Financial Times. Retrieved 10 April 2024.