abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. We should expect more of these in the future.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%).

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I think we will see more of these in 2016 and beyond as IPOs are still far and few between and unicorns struggle to justify their stratospheric valuations. I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity. At the IPO, Musk held a 14.2% Hope that changes in 2016.

Merger 28

Merger LP IPO Redemption 28