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The serial entrepreneur — best known for founding and selling Diapers.com and Jet.com — shared insights on his latest venture: a food service platform that’s redefining restaurant economics.

At Jefferies’ Private Growth Conference, sector leaders discussed the trajectory of AI adoption and how it’s shaping dealmaking in 2025.

We recently spoke with Evan Osheroff, Jefferies’ Managing Director of Software Investment Banking, to get his take on what’s shaping the technology market and where it’s headed.

We recently met with Kumin at the Jefferies Private Internet Conference in Los Angeles, where we explored his vision for AI’s future and its impact on growth investing within private equity.

Heitzmann believes, “we will have an IPO or two in the next twelve months, and then we think 2025 will be as close to normal as we have seen in years.”  

Nicole Quinn, a partner at Lightspeed Ventures discusses how AI is reshaping tech companies, and where consumer brands fit into the equation.

In 2023, two-thirds of venture capital investment went into AI-related businesses.
Much like the widespread adoption of mobile technologies 15 years ago, AI is poised to radically reshape the private internet market. But how?

Cato’s cloud-native architecture combines enterprise networking and network security within a secure access service edge (SASE) framework. Today, more than 2,100 enterprises across 150 countries have adopted the Cato SASE Cloud.

As 2024 begins, tech dealmaking continues to recover gradually – a trend that may endure for months or potentially longer – but be ready for it to shift suddenly.