We then test six hypotheses regarding the impacts of these proximities on the likelihood of three events occurring in VC-backed startups: obtaining a later-stage round of funding, going public, and being merged or acquired. We implement these tests on a 33-year-long, 68-country sample using...
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It is a sister-firm to Susa Ventures, the seed-stage firm that has backed companies like Robinhood, Human Interest and Flexport. The fund comes at a time when defense tech is seeing venture investment reach record highs: Startups in the sector have raised nearly $3 billion so far in ...
Exclusive: Primer, a VC-backed startup helping teachers launch their own microschools, notches legislative victory in Florida BYAllie Garfinkle August 16, 2024 at 7:49 PM GMT+8 Primer successfully partnered with the Florida House and Senate to pass an amendment expanding potential sch...
Now that you have a VC-backed board, good corporate governance and a well-functioning board are even more necessary than when your board was made up solely of founders. Oversight and Supervision The board is collectively responsible for promoting the success of the company by directing and super...
Fred Wilson: Invest In 'Ugly Adolescant Stage' Startups (huffingtonpost.com) The Unbundling of the Venture Capital Industry (startupboy.com) The founder's life for young VC's (finance.fortune.cnn.com) How to sell out to venture capital without feeling like you're a sellout (tech.fortun...
meaning fewer of those startups will need to return in 2023. Due to the harsher VCenvironment, we expect a fair number of the remaining startups to consider venturedebt to supplement their need for equity financings. Startups that opt to raise venturedebt could lessen the burden on ...
Did anyone else catch this stat on Crunchbase: 'M&A deal-making in the cybersecurity space continues to slow with only 13 deals announced for VC-backed startups in the first quarter of the year' Do you think the decrease in cybersecurity...
Our capital demand-to-supply model generates a simple output measuring how much more (or less) capital is being supplied to the US VC market than is theoretically being demanded by startups. The...
Rahul Vohra, an entrepreneur who also backs young start-ups, frequently hears a company’s pitch, conducts diligence, signs a deal and wires the money all in the same day, he said. Does the word “diligence” have any meaning in either English or in finance if the process is completed ...