| History of private equity and venture capital |
|---|
| |
| Early history |
| (origins of modern private equity) |
| The 1980s |
| (leveraged buyout boom) |
| The 1990s |
| (leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble) |
| The 2000s |
| (dot-com bubble to the credit crunch) |
| The 2010s |
| (expansion) |
| The 2020s |
| (COVID-19 recession) |
In the 2020s private equity firms needed to respond to the COVID-19 recession. In the early 2020s private equity funding exploded. [1] Private equity firm Silver Lake was involved in the costly 2020 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. [2] The World Economic Forum suggested private equity would fund the post-recession revival of the economy. [3]
Care Equity based in New York was founded, establishing a very tough strategy. [4]
1789 Capital, an American conservative venture capital firm, was established in 2022. [5]