Private Equity Wire newsletter - "All eyes on healthcare"

All eyes on healthcare

This week Private Equity Wire hosted its PEWire Live Healthcare Investing Summit that brought together GPs, LPS and other private equity experts to share their insights into how to think about deal-sourcing, value creation, innovation and the use of technology within the fast-changing healthcare sector.

With devastating lockdowns and the ever-present threat that Covid-19 continues to pose, the ability to cater to a population's healthcare needs has become top priority for governments and companies alike, a trend that accelerated in 2020 and will reverberate for decades to come. The summit highlighted – among other things – how private capital could be a driver of change within the healthcare sector – something which we saw already early on in the pandemic.
With an ageing population, pandemic weary societies, exponential growth in health and wellbeing spend, and an explosion of health data, it's little wonder that healthcare is a key trend in private equity deal origination, writes Chris Gauld, director at Equator, for PEWire. According to Pitchbook, in 2020, healthcare was the third most active section in US PE deals, and fourth most active sector in Europe. Read Gauld's feature to find out more about recent healthcare deal trends.
This week Tech Nations released its seventh much-awaited annual report on the state of the UK tech sector. It showed that ten scaleups, which between them secured 20 per cent of total UK tech VC investment at USD3.5 billion, drove UK tech in 2020. This prompted seed investor SFC Capital to comment on the importance of having enough early-stage funding available to British startups in order to rebuild the economy.
According to ‘Covid-19 and the world of private equity: optimism in an uncertain environment’, a survey released by audit firm Mazars that gauges investor sentiment in the institutional funding market, private equity investors expect a ‘U-shaped’ recovery as we eventually move out of the current crisis.
Last but not least, Private Equity Wire’s Tuesday podcast featured Albright Capital’s CIO and co-founder John Yonemoto, who has worked through every EM credit crisis since the 1980's. We discussed how EM policy makers responded to the pandemic, whether events that unfolded in 2020 have reinforced some of the beliefs LPs might hold regarding EM private markets, and some of the investment risk disparities between developed and emerging markets at the moment.
Karin Wasteson
Editor, Private Equity Wire

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