This has been a golden decade for private equity. The financial conditions following 2008’s Global Financial Crisis were ideal for the asset class to flourish, with interest rates low and plenty of capital looking for higher growth assets. The question today is whether private equity can continue to thrive in the “new normal” that emerges from the Covid-19 crisis?

The venture-capital offices around Silicon Valley remain largely empty, but their coffers will soon be brimming after what has shaped up to be a surprisingly resilient year for technology startups.

Venture capital is the investments of private capital in private companies i.e. companies not listed on the stock exchange. It is like Private Equity (PE) but a bit different. Venture capital focuses on companies very early in their lifecycle while PE invests in slightly more late-stage companies. It’s this focus on early-stage companies (more risk) that puts the ‘venture’ in VC. But you will be right in saying VC is essentially a subset of PE.

Lemonade is a very interesting company. Its co-founders Daniel Schreiber, the CEO, and its ‘DaVinci Code’ technologist co-founder Shai Winninger are focused on creating a very successful company based on efficiency. That efficiency is both internal and customer-facing and assumes a digital model.

Airbnb’s stock soared on Thursday in its highly anticipated public market debut, closing at $144.71 per share, more than double its initial offering of $68 per share.

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