Here at Crunchbase News, we write about a lot of funding rounds and the investors leading them. Most of the time, those investors tend to be venture capitalists, but a growing number have been private equity firms. I’ve seen the names of private equity firms pop up in some of the funding rounds I’ve covered, but I started thinking about it more after attending a dinner hosted by IVPearlier this month. Sandy Miller, a general partner at the firm, was talking about trends in the 2019 late-stage and IPO market, and noted that this year brought a diverse set of companies making exits and private equity firms investing less like they traditionally used to. He also predicted that in the future we’d see private equity firms as more active players as acquirers.