August IPO Profiles: Sonos leads quiet month for new VC-backed issues
IPO activity slowed in August, as only two VC-backed companies went public on U.S. exchanges, [...]
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Post Venture Capital Index gains ground in August
The Thomson Reuters’ Post Venture Capital Index (PVCI) gained ground over the previous month, following [...]
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Upwork looks like another unicorn IPO in the making
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Upwork, an online platform that connects companies with freelancers, recently said [...]
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What tech M&A knows that VC still doesn’t get
By Tim Schigel, Refinery Ventures VCs are staring at a massive opportunity to make capital-efficient [...]
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Biotech is eating healthcare funding
Venture equity invested in healthcare-related companies has increased more than 12 percent since 2015, and [...]
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August Dashboard: M&A soars as fundraising, IPOs take a step back
August was a great month for M&A, thanks to the close of a few large [...]
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Fintech investors look globally for deals
Fintech deal making has been heavily concentrated in places such as California and New York, [...]
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Goldman Sachs emerges as lead buyer on innovative NEA secondary deal
Goldman Sachs has emerged as the lead buyer in an innovative secondary deal, being run [...]
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SF pension adds $126 mln to PE; private-markets exec leaves
San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System in August and September made $126 million in private equity [...]
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San Jose pension, aiming to leverage access, plans early-stage venture investments
The $3.7 billion San Jose Police and Fire Pension Plan, hoping to leverage its access [...]
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Can popular Silicon Valley brand SurveyMonkey avoid a down-round IPO?
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost SurveyMonkey is finally pulling the trigger. The nearly 20-year-old unicorn, which [...]
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August Top 10s: Venture continues consolidation into fewer, larger deals
Deal count dropped and equity from venture investors into U.S.-based startups rose in August 2018 [...]
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Fitness funding, led by Peloton plan for IPO, has investors pumped
Internet-connected-stationary-bike company Peloton, preparing for an IPO, said in August it had raised $550 million, [...]
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Chinese entrepreneurs ahead in AI implementation, says investor Kai-Fu Lee
Chinese entrepreneurs have made great strides with AI, backed by a flood of investment capital [...]
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Series A and seed deals climb to record size
It is no secret later-stage round sizes have expanded to recent mega-rounds. Now seed and [...]
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Eventbrite moves toward a $2 bln-plus IPO
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Eventbrite Inc, the event ticketing and services unicorn, recently filed its [...]
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Exit markets build momentum in cybersecurity
Cybersecurity’s exit markets are looking up, and the vigor could remain for some time. The [...]
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Cybersecurity investing surges (again)
When Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint and Splunk launched what became crackerjack IPOs in 2012, they [...]
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