Advent International
Private equity companywww.adventinternational.com
33
MENTIONS
25
EPISODES
21
PODCASTS
Search complete. 33 mentions across 25 episodes found for "Advent International".
Sep 25, 2026
Ryan KnutsonHOST
In 2005, Wilson stepped down as lululemon's CEO and sold some of his shares.
Suzanne KapnerGUEST
He did sell a big stake to Advent International, a private equity company, and he regretted that deal almost from day one.
Suzanne KapnerGUEST
And he, he just felt like Advent and the CEOs they brought in were kind of, as he put it later, the type of managers who know how to speak Wall Street, but don't know about how to create, you know, great, innovative products.
Suzanne KapnerGUEST
And so he, he was never quite happy with the direction of the company.
Adam M.GUEST
Then I moved to PE.
Adam M.GUEST
That was at a firm called Advent International.
Adam M.GUEST
And they are a global private equity firm.
Adam M.GUEST
HQ is in Boston, but I was in the team in London.
Brian DermanHOST
There have been leadership changes.
Brian DermanHOST
There has been a takeover bid from Stripe and Advent International, which, as you pick up the paper this morning, seems to be off the table again.
Brian DermanHOST
But what did you make of that idea of combining, let's call it combining Stripe with PayPal and what kind of strategic sense that might have made to you or not?
Timothy ChiodoGUEST
Sure.
Daphné Leprince-RinguetGUEST
And my understanding is that they easily reached that cap there.
Daphné Leprince-RinguetGUEST
New investors worthy of note are US-based Advent International, who's also an investor in OpenAI.
Daphné Leprince-RinguetGUEST
And then a lot, plenty of existing investors joined the round.
Daphné Leprince-RinguetGUEST
ASML, who is the Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer who led Mistral's previous round, which was almost exactly a year ago.
speaker_0HOST
Which brings us to the biggest bombshell, most disruptive move of 2026.
speaker_0HOST
In July 2026, Stripe partnered with the private equity firm Advent International to launch a $53 billion leveraged buyout bid for PayPal at $60.50 a share.
speaker_1HOST
Though PayPal was pushing for closer to $70 a share.
speaker_1HOST
But still.
Peter BuchananHOST
So Ode's a $1.5 billion forward deployed engineering venture with three VCs that are quite famous, Blackstone, Hel- Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, plus Sequoia, the venture firm.
Peter BuchananHOST
OpenAI's answer is Deployco, a $4 billion joint venture with TPG, Brookfield, Bain Capital, and Advent International based on the same FDE model that Palantir popularized.
Peter BuchananHOST
Bigger check, less proven team so far.
Peter BuchananHOST
But the goal of both companies is to sell directly th- the, of these deployment companies to sell directly into the portfolio companies of their PE owners.
Joe MenningerHOST
In the first week of July, Quantum Systems, also based in Munich, raised $1.2 billion at $18 billion valuation in Series D funding.
Joe MenningerHOST
Blackstone, Airbus and Advent International invested.
Joe MenningerHOST
Quantum Systems built autonomous drones and unmanned system platforms.
Joe MenningerHOST
This is physical hardware, not software.
8 MINS LATER
Joe MenningerHOST
Lian just did it.
Joe MenningerHOST
And the global signal.
Joe MenningerHOST
RIPE and Advent International submitted a $53 billion bid for PayPal.
Joe MenningerHOST
Michael Burry, the investor who shorted the housing market in 2007, publicly said the bid was too low.
Joe MenningerHOST
In the first week of July, Quantum Systems, also based in Munich, raised $1.2 billion at $18 billion valuation in Series D funding.
Joe MenningerHOST
Blackstone, Airbus and Advent International invested.
Joe MenningerHOST
Quantum Systems built autonomous drones and unmanned system platforms.
Joe MenningerHOST
This is physical hardware, not software.
8 MINS LATER
Joe MenningerHOST
Lian just did it.
Joe MenningerHOST
And the global signal.
Joe MenningerHOST
RIPE and Advent International submitted a $53 billion bid for PayPal.
Joe MenningerHOST
Michael Burry, the investor who shorted the housing market in 2007, publicly said the bid was too low.
Joe MenningerHOST
In the first week of July, Quantum Systems, also based in Munich, raised $1.2 billion at $18 billion valuation in Series D funding.
Joe MenningerHOST
Blackstone, Airbus and Advent International invested.
Joe MenningerHOST
Quantum Systems built autonomous drones and unmanned system platforms.
Joe MenningerHOST
This is physical hardware, not software.
8 MINS LATER
Joe MenningerHOST
Lian just did it.
Joe MenningerHOST
And the global signal.
Joe MenningerHOST
RIPE and Advent International submitted a $53 billion bid for PayPal.
Joe MenningerHOST
Michael Burry, the investor who shorted the housing market in 2007, publicly said the bid was too low.
Damian FraserHOST
Next item.
Eduardo GarciaHOST
Next item, I'm going to talk about these press reports that have come out about Afore Coppel, one of Mexico's key pension fund administrators, apparently reaching an agreement to buy Afore Invercap from their current majority owner, Advent International.
Eduardo GarciaHOST
That's an interesting operation that will...
Eduardo GarciaHOST
Consolidate again the pension fund industry here in Mexico.
15 more episodes mention Advent International.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.