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Top 50 Private Equity Innovator Awards | 2022

We are pleased to announce the inaugural 2022 Top 50 Private Equity Innovator Awards, an award recognizing firms that represent the top 1% in the private equity industry as determined by BluWave for their innovative practices in:* Proactive Due Diligence Practices Transformative Value Creation Progressive Private Equity Firm Operations ESG The BluWave Top 50 Private Equity Innovator Award recipients were selected based upon a rigorous assessment in consultation with leading limited partners,...
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Private Equity Firms

In The Know: Interim Executives

As part of an ongoing series, we’re sharing real-time trending topics we are hearing from our 500+ PE firm clients. In our most recent installment, one of our Managing Consultants, Keenan Kolinsky, talks about one of the ways private equity firms are responding to The Great Resignation – Interim Executives. He shares why the need for interim executives is rising in private equity, how they can be used, and why they are beneficial especially to PE firms. Interested in learning more about interim...
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Private Equity Firms, Value Creation, Portfolio CEOs

Sean Mooney on The Private Equity Podcast

Recently, BluWave founder & CEO, Sean Mooney, spoke with Alex Rawlings on The Private Equity Podcast about how PE firms and their portfolio companies can develop better communication and therefore better relationships. They discussed common mistakes by PE firms and portcos, how PE investors can better connect with portcos, how to select the best service providers, and more. They also discussed insights into the private equity industry and what Sean misses from his PE partner days. Interested in...
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Private Equity Firms

In The Know: The Need for Go-To-Market Resources

As part of an ongoing series, we’re sharing real-time trending topics we are hearing from our 500+ PE fund clients. In our most recent installment, our consulting manager, Scott Bellinger, talks about why we have seen an increase in go-to-market & growth strategy needs and how we are supporting clients with those. He shares that growth strategy is continuously increasing, with GTM being the third most used Value Creation use case in 2021, according to the BluWave Value Creation Index. One of...
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Private Equity Firms

Operating Partners’ Forum Recap | January 2022

Every quarter we gather Operating Executives in PE to discuss current industry topics and to offer peers the chance to gather, share information, and decompress with one another. In our most recent event, we gathered to discuss lessons learned in 2021 that will be reinforced in 2022, creative ways to respond to the Great Resignation outside of paying portco teams significantly more, lessons learned from the seismic shift in traditional economy companies from field sales to inside sales...
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Private Equity Firms, Operations

2021 Annual BluWave Insights

Every quarter, BluWave reviews data from 500+ private equity fund engagements to identify market trends and performance insights. Our Q4 2021 Report includes in-depth year-over-year analysys from 2019 to 2021—offering a comprehensive view of private equity activity and evolving industry dynamics. (Download your copy here). Key findings from our annual analysis included a sharp increase in the rise of human capital activity and rebounding of operational investment post-COVID. Learn more about...
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Private Equity Firms, Due Diligence

Proactive ESG Steps for Private Equity Firms to Enhance Investment Returns

ESG has grown in importance and prominence amongst the investing community in the past few months. After a year and a half of unprecedented times, investors have found that they can help cause positive change by placing a focus on ESG. Additionally, investors have found that ESG criteria often points to improved long-term returns, with roughly 53% of institutional investors agreeing that companies with better ESG track records generate better investment returns. With the importance of ESG...
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Private Equity Firms, Operations, Due Diligence

Why BluWave was built with deal quarterbacks in mind

As a deal quarterback in private equity, Sean Mooney often struggled with getting connected to the PE-grade, specialized resources he needed to drive differential success. Sean found himself spending lots of time searching for providers on google and calling friends in search of an exact-fit service provider. This made the diligence process time-consuming and stressful. It also left only a small amount of time for the other things that matter. In order to combat this pressing issue, Sean came...
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Private Equity Firms, Deal Teams

How BluWave facilitates due diligence for deal QBs

BluWave founder and CEO, Sean Mooney, recently shared his personal experiences as a private equity deal quarterback and how that led to him founding BluWave. Sean learned through his own experiences that due diligence for deal QBs is a flawed process. He found there are far too many generalist providers that don’t quite fit the bill for the specialized needs they are trying to solve. After spending far too much time during the vetting process, Sean realized there must be another way. In this...
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Private Equity Firms, Deal Teams

Buyouts Magazine: More effective sourcing of service providers promises benefits

BluWave founder and CEO, Sean Mooney, recently had the privilege of sitting down with Buyouts Magazine for a keynote interview in their Fund Services Special Report December issue. In the interview, he specifically highlighted the importance of proper use of service providers in private equity. In this report, he covered the topics of: Why private equity firms must use third-party service providers Why it is hard to use third parties successfully The opportunity cost of not using third-party...
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Private Equity Firms

How BluWave helps PE shrink the world

This month, BluWave founder & CEO, Sean Mooney, had the opportunity to join Devin Matthews on ParkerGale’s Funcast podcast to discuss how BluWave helps PE shrink the world by connecting funds to the exact-fit resources they need when they need them. Sean and Devin discussed how BluWave was born out of a pain Sean experienced during his 20 years in private equity and is made to connect funds to the resources they need when they don’t know who to use or their go-to providers are sold out. They...
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Private Equity Firms

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