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AltAssets is a business-to-business company which manages an online financial news website focused on the private equity and venture capital industry. AltAssets was launched in 2001 and is based in London. It was originally owned and operated as a service by private equity advisory firm, Almeida Capital, but was acquired by Investor Networks Limited in March 2013 and re-launched as an independent news and networking platform for the alternative assets industry. It has introduced a premium news service which is used by over 3,000 paying customers (March 2013).
The AltAssets website is designed to provide the latest news, opinion and research that serve the needs of professionals working in all parts of the industry, from the institutional investor to the venture-backed entrepreneur. Over 10 years we’ve become the world’s most widely used source of information on private equity with more than 10,000 private equity professionals from 159 countries visiting the site every working day. Individuals from the majority of leading investment institutions, private equity firms and professional services firms which are active in private equity use AltAssets on a regular basis.
In addition, the AltAssets App, the first of its kind in the industry, allows LPs and GPs to instantly connect with peers and colleagues around the world, as well as providing mobile access to essential industry research and extensive global private equity and venture capital news.
AltAssets also hosts forums designed to connect LPs and GPs with interest in a particular sector. The company launched Limited Partner Magazine in January 2012 to provide news and opinions focussed on the institutional investor perspective of the private equity industry. The magazine is circulated to over 4,400 LPs and focuses on the news and information that is most relevant to Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) who are concerned with fund investment, fundraising, investor relations, marketing and communications. Its news service covers a number of areas within private equity including:
- Transactions - leveraged buyout transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and other deals;
- Private equity firms - news coverage about the activities and operations of the investment firms; and
- Private equity funds - Coverage of fundraising activities and issues pertaining to private equity investors.
- Sectors - venture capital, real estate, infrastructure the private equity secondary market and funds of funds