The Dutch Private Company: Successfully Relaunched?

Predicting Private Company Exits Using Qualitative Data

Private companies backed by venture capitalists or private equity funds receive their funding in a series of rounds. Information about when each round occurred and which investors participated in each round has been compiled into different databases. Here we mine one such database to model how the private company will exit the VC/PE space. More specifically, we apply a random forest algorithm t...

Quantifying the Private Company Discount: Multiples Approach and Acquisition Approach

Private company valuation is typically performed by BV professionals who regularly estimate the value of nonmarketable interests. In order to develop a valuation estimate, BV professionals review and interpret empirical evidence to support decision making. For example, for the valuation of nonmarketable interests—within the context of a fair market value business valuation—there is typically a ...

Private Benefits of Control, Capital Structure and Company Growth

This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, issue less new equity, use more debt and grow more slowly. The dataset covers 6834 private UK companies with limited liability for up to 5 years. Loss of control is measure...

Private company offers hope to cancer patients--for a price.

Datalog Relaunched: Simulation Unification and Value Invention

For reasoning on the Web, Datalog is lacking data extraction and value invention. This article proposes to overcome these limitations with “simulation unification” and “RDFLog”. Simulation unification is a non-standard unification inspired from regular path queries. Like standard unification, it yields bindings for variables in both terms to unify. Unlike standard unification, it does not try t...