Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships. This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Inworld AI, takes this type of technology to create game characters using text. million (partly thanks to their acquisition of RTFKT), followed by Dolce & Gabbana at $25.7 The H1 2022 gaming activity report by Investgame shows who are the top 15 strategic investors in the gaming space. Nike leads the chart with $185.3

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Strategic investors are looking to consolidate their positions : The top 6 buyers in tech & media account for 27% of all purchases. Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. On the flip side, simply taking strategic investor capital because it’s there or it’s easier or cheaper than other capital rarely works out well for startups.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Corporate venture funds are often referred to as ‘strategic’ investors because of the unique benefits they bring to the table. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Some corporate VCs even have seed funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships. This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The acquisition probably means more to you than it does to the other party, so you will be negotiating from a place of relative weakness. Most companies aren’t that acquisitive, and a company’s reputation as a buyer is nowhere near as important to a normal company as it is to a venture investor.

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