Real Deals - How AI is transforming private equity

7th January 2026

Walid Fakhry, co-managing partner at Soho Square Capital, joined Real Deals’ expert roundtable to explore how AI is reshaping how private equity firms think about portfolio management.

“When you ask a CEO about a company’s AI strategy and the answer is that the first job is to get a grip on data, you can take confidence that the company’s AI plan is on track.”

 

“Data is the starting point for everything. Once a company has a data warehouse, a data lake and a tool for data engineering and data analytics in place, harnessing the power of AI becomes so much easier.”

Read the full article and dive deeper into these insights here.