Research: AI and private equity in Europe

This is where we collect what we publish on the AI-enabled roll-up category: the European AI Buyout & Roll-up Index as a dataset, and the background pages on AI-enabled roll-ups and AI private equity. Every page names its sources, author and date.

Datasets

Dataset

European AI Buyout & Roll-up Index

Platforms and investors in Europe that buy or build several companies and run them on a shared AI layer. One dated source per entry, CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

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Background

AI-enabled roll-up: definition, European examples and how it works in Germany

Three kinds of AI-enabled roll-up, European platforms with sourced figures, the economics, the failure modes and how GTP runs the model.

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Background

Why a fund and not a platform

How Generation Tech Partners started in 2025: two observations, the difference to software-first platforms and to Tenet, and what follows from it.

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Background

GTP AI efficiency score: methodology

How we measure the effect of AI per workflow: hours per case, error rate, turnaround time, baseline before the first tool.

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Background

AI private equity in Germany: definition, who does it

Three kinds of buyer compared, the firms doing it in Germany and what the model means for owners.

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