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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one.

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The cash looks good on the balance sheet, and venture investors want to pile on money at low valuations before the valuation increases by 10x as a public stock. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing.