Canadian VC’s late-stage pivot shows market coming of age
The big story in Canada’s venture market in 2018 may be late-stage deals. Since January, [...]
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Golub’s Peter Fair on the SaaS report: `More seed is good’
The software as a service category is one of the hottest venture-backed areas, and the [...]
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Tenable’s IPO may be a cybersecurity unicorn in the making
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Tenable could very well be headed to unicorn status given its [...]
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Top 10: June venture deals are a mixed bag in various tech sectors
While it’s broadly true that deal count is dropping and equity invested is increasing in [...]
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Sequoia ranks as most active investor in H1 2018
Sequoia Capital, seeking to raise a global growth fund that’s rumored to target as much [...]
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Scaling strategies drive C$562 mln raised by Canada’s top VC deals in Q2
Canada’s venture capital market showed no signs of slowing in Q2. The market’s top 10 [...]
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Fertility-prediction startup Celmatix seeks funding
Celmatix, the health-tech startup that uses big data to improve reproductive medicine, is seeking a [...]
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June Dashboard: VC-backed IPOs spike in June as U.S. fundraising soars past $21 bln year-to-date
The first half ended with a robust IPO market as 18 venture-backed companies debuted on [...]
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On the Bleeding Edge: Irony as Uber scooters with Lime, and a key reaction to women in VC
Lime became the latest electric-scooter-rental operator to raise a multihundred-million-dollar round and become a unicorn. [...]
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Venture continues to consolidate into fewer, bigger deals in H1 2018
U.S. venture investing in the first half continued the trend of consolidating capital into fewer [...]
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Venture capital hits global record in Q2
Venture-capital investments around the world hit another record in the second quarter, with the United [...]
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Helping avoid flights of fancy, venture disrupts business travel
Business travel is a massive market, with $1.2 trillion spent globally every year, according to [...]
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Venture sees solid Q2 IPO market with 29 U.S. deals
The U.S. IPO market turned in its best quarter in three years in the second [...]
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SoftBank’s ambitions remain high with a second Vision Fund on the way: here’s a running tab of its investments
SoftBank‘s investment ambitions remain high, with a second Vision Fund on the way and a [...]
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IPO activity softens globally in Q2
Geopolitical tensions and changing trade policies softened IPO activity in many places around the world [...]
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The verdict is in: Spotify’s direct listing is an unqualified success
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Spotify took an enormous gamble when it decided to directly list [...]
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M&A exits poised to surge in 2018, as fundraising also remains robust
IVP General Partner Sandy Miller has reason to express optimism about exit trends. In the [...]
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Post Venture Capital Index rises in May
For the second consecutive month, the Thomson Reuters’ Post Venture Capital Index (PVCI) gained ground [...]
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