Agile VC
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. For a time that meant that other category leaders accelerated their own IPO plans… think Groupon and Zynga. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 14, 2022
There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. SPACs had their moment in the sun in 2021, with a record number of companies choosing to go public using the SPACs in favour of traditional IPOs. For the record, Startup Nation Central and Pitchbook share slightly higher numbers ($26.6 SPACs have backfired.
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Cracking the Code
MARCH 28, 2022
The cloud IPO market has also been very active with 32 IPOs vs. 17 in 2020. It’s worth noting though that while the number of IPOs increased, the companies were smaller and raised less capital than those last year. 60% of the cloud IPOs had a market cap of $5B+ vs. only 28% this year. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 24, 2021
From Zwift’s virtual tour de France to Aston Martin’s AMR-C01 racing simulator, at-home amateur athletes will increasingly be able to compete against top-level professionals, according to the Future 100: 2021 by Wunderman.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
We have two big winners in France, one in the UK and a couple in San Francisco. Lyn Kirby ran Ulta Cosmetics from its early days through its successful IPO. HDI is based in Las Vegas. Our other big wins came from Chicago (Ulta & Envestnet), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack) & LA (TrueCar).
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms.
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Of the 43 U.S.-based
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