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Basil Hamadeh, CEO•

July 11, 2025

Private Equity AI Playbook - Fortifying Portfolios in a Tech-Driven Market

The private equity landscape has fundamentally shifted in the past 24 months. As artificial intelligence reshapes entire industries and new technologies emerge at breakneck speed, private equity firms are completely rethinking their approach to deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio construction. The traditional playbook of identifying stable, cash-flowing businesses for operational improvements now requires a sophisticated understanding of technological disruption, AI integration potential, and future-proofing strategies.

The Ultimate Guide to Private Company Research in 2025

The private market represents over 90% of all U.S. businesses, yet most investors focus exclusively on the less than 10% that are publicly traded. This creates enormous opportunities for those who know how to research private companies effectively. In this comprehensive guide, we'll walk you through proven strategies, insider tips, and practical hacks to uncover hidden gems in the private market.

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June 30, 2025

Runwise Raises $55M to Help Buildings Save Energy and Cut Costs

Runwise, a fast-growing private company focused on smart-building technology, has just secured $55 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with backing from Nuveen, MassMutual Ventures, and other investors.

June 28, 2025

Clarity in the Chaos: Why Private Manufacturers Are the Ones to Watch

Let’s be honest: when most people hear about “economic uncertainty,” they think the worst — markets stalling, trade tensions escalating, and businesses retreating to safety mode. But in our private company database, we’re seeing a very different story unfold. While the headlines swirl with warnings — tariffs, AI disruption, Middle East instability, and shifting global alliances — a quieter transformation is taking root here at home: the revival of American manufacturing.

February 12, 2025

Breakthrough Innovation Sectors in 2024

2024 was a positive year for investors, and these sectors are keeping investors interested in what’s to come in 2025

December 9, 2024

Holiday Spending Trends: How Private Retailers are Capitalizing on Consumer Behavior

Companies are working hard to bolster consumer spending with flashy holiday campaigns that hail back to consumer faves and raise awareness of newer brands

August 21, 2024

Three Sectors with Strong Post-COVID Recoveries in Valuations and Financials

IT, business and financial services, and health care have all proven to be resilient despite recent volatility

March 22, 2023

Hottest Private Industry Trends of 2023

It's essential to stay ahead of the curve and be aware of the latest trends and shifts in the private industries. That's where PrivCo's What's Next in 2023 dataset comes in - our team of expert analysts and researchers have compiled a comprehensive list of trending companies across the hottest industries.

February 13, 2023

Companies That Beat the Odds in 2022

The PrivCo50 list covers the most valuable private companies that raised a sizable funding round in 2022. These companies reflect where venture funding interest remained despite a pullback in overall investments.

January 18, 2023

Valuations on Ice

We're looking at the top teams in hockey ranked by valuation, not by bodychecks and broken teeth (or trophies).

January 2, 2023

Business of Sports

Our ranking of the most valuable sports teams in soccer, baseball, football, and baseball.

December 27, 2022

City of Angels

How celebrity angel investors are enlightening startup gains.

December 6, 2022

Artist or AI?

A look at the generative AI companies complicating copyright.

November 23, 2022

Alternatives to Twitter

Learn about the top contenders vying for twitter users leaving the nest.

October 31, 2022

Next-Gen Unicorns

Our prediction of the next generation of post-pandemic unicorn companies.

August 3, 2022

SOS: Save Our Supply Chain

Who has the solution for our supply chain woes? We’re looking at the most innovative companies solving for the supply chain.

June 21, 2022

Highest Growth Cannabis Companies

25 Trailblazing Startups on the Rise.

May 23, 2022

PrivCo's Q2 Product Updates

A message from our Chief Product Officer.

May 10, 2022

Leaders in Climate Tech

25 High Growth Companies in Climate Tech, Building a Greener Economy.

April 25, 2022

Fastest Growing Companies from Q1, 2022

PrivCo harnesses the power of our proprietary machine learning to deliver comprehensive private market intelligence. Search PrivCo's platform to discover U.S. private companies with $1MM or more in revenue across 110M+ data points and 780K+ company profiles.

April 22, 2022

Earth Day 2022: Invest in Our Planet

To celebrate Earth Day's theme, "Invest in Our Planet," we've compiled a shortlist of recent DailyStack content related to environmental investing and climatetech innovators.

March 30, 2022

Titans of Crypto

The top 30 companies in DeFi, NFT, blockchain, and cryptocurrency.

March 15, 2022

What's Next in 2022

PrivCo's ranking of the hottest investment sectors for 2022.

February 28, 2022

Funding Diversity 2021

PrivCo's ranking of investments raised by diverse leaders in 2021.

December 13, 2021

Rise of the Unicorns!

A predictive analysis of private companies that are next in line to reaching unicorn status.

September 15, 2021

PrivCo 50 Q2, 2021

An in-depth report that evaluates the revenue and investment raised by private companies in Q2, 2021 in comparison to the previous quarter.

July 27, 2021

Top 50 Privately-Held Enterprise Software Companies

Measuring the business performance of privately-held enterprise software companies (as of June, 2021).

May 11, 2021

GoPuff Headlines the Q1'21 PrivCo 50 Top Growth List!

Measuring business performance of private companies between January 1 to March 31, 2021.

April 6, 2021

Investments Trends To Watch in Healthcare

PrivCo reviews 50 top-performing healthcare startups and the eleven areas in healthcare they are pioneering growth.

February 16, 2021

Top Industry Trends in 2021

It covers everything you need to know about the companies that shaped their respective industry leading into 2021.

February 1, 2021

Funding Diversity 2020

An in-depth report that evaluates the capital raised by minority-led companies as well as female-founded and female-led organizations in 2020 in comparison to the previous year.