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The Weekend Pitch

March 31, 2024

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Secondaries are certainly having a bit of a moment.

Secondaries funds raised $78.3 billion last year, according to PitchBook's 2023 Annual Global Private Market Fundraising Report. That total has been surpassed only once before, in 2020, when they pulled in $84.8 billion.

However, the 2023 tally was spread across just 72 funds—the lowest fund count since 2019—and just four funds accounted for 60.7% of the total. Much like in broader private equity fundraising, the success of several large funds is heavily skewing the numbers.

Secondaries funds also continue to account for only a small share of the overall market—6.7% of private capital raised last year, and just 3% of total private capital assets under management (as of June 30, 2023).

My point here isn't to pour cold water on the buzz around secondaries, but to emphasize it is still relatively early days for the growth of the strategy—particularly on the GP-led side, which has been responsible for much of the recent enthusiasm. For the secondaries universe to reach the next stage in its evolution, further specialization is inevitable, as is better alignment of interests between GPs and LPs.

This is The Weekend Pitch, and I'm Marie Kemplay. You can reach me at marie.kemplay@pitchbook.com.

Trivia

A darling during the pandemic, the digital health vertical has been on the decline following explosive growth in 2020 and 2021. It has begun to stabilize, however. According to Pitchbook's latest Digital Health Report, how much did startups raise within the digital health space in Q4 2023?

A) $899 million
B) $2.7 billion
C) $1.1 billion
D) $3.3 billion

Find your answer at the bottom of The Weekend Pitch!

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Our inaugural Data Analytics report unpacks the opportunities for generative AI spanning data infrastructure, analytics platforms and vertical applications.

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Overall, healthcare IT's Q4 2023 VC activity was at its weakest for the year, and PE's momentum stayed flat. Both strategies tallied up annual totals at a decline from the year before.

Quote/Unquote

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"A big part of venture is being able to actually work with and help companies and have capabilities that are super relevant to them. Microsoft is a nice training ground to be able to say, 'Oh, I understand product development; I understand the technical side; I understand marketing; I understand sales.'"

—Tola Capital managing director Sheila Gulati on why so many of her former peers at Microsoft have jumped into venture investing.

Stay tuned

Keep an eye out for these insights and research reports coming out this week:

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Future Food-Tech Conference Recap

Trivia

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Answer: C)

In Q4 2023, digital health startups generated $1.1 billion in deal value across 57 deals, a slight increase of 1.7% from Q3. You can read more about the vertical, the new opportunities for investors and other key data points in the report.

This edition of The Weekend Pitch was written by Marie Kemplay, James Thorne, Clarinda Simpson and Jacob Robbins. It was edited by Andrew Woodman and Ron Prichard.

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