In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices”
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Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense
Interest in AI and defence tech start-ups has boosted investor activity after a prolonged slowdown
VC firm CRV plans to return $275M from its $500M Select fund, citing worsening market conditions and high startup valuations relative to their potential payoff
CRV, based in Silicon Valley, plans to return to investors $275 million because the market for mature start-ups has soured.
Source: Cisco is paying ~$650M in cash for Isovalent, or 32 times the startup's ARR; Isovalent raised a $40M Series B at a ~$250M valuation in September 2022
Anissa Gardizy / The Information : X: @anissagardizy8 . LinkedIn: Timothy Snow X: Anissa Gardizy / @anissagardizy8 : scoop: Cisco plans to buy cloud networking startup Isovalent for ~$650mm in cash $...
Amid tech stocks' poor performance, especially IPOs, some venture firms are cutting back investments and startup valuations, as they renegotiate funding deals
As everyone with a brokerage account braces for emotional trauma they've rarely … Tweets: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : Several large startup investors rapidly pulling back -prices for private shares dropp...
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021 with a $59 billion all-time high in exits
but are on track for a stellar 2021 Fortune : Female-founded startups had a dire 2020. In 2021, they're breaking records for money raised and exits Tweets: Lizelle van Vuuren / @heylizelle : Women are...
A look at Visionrare, a crypto marketplace for “fantasy startup investing”, where users spend real money to buy fake shares in startups as NFTs
The meme-ification of ownership and the wild acceleration of private startup valuations have led us to this moment … Tweets: @lucasmtny , @kateclarktweets , @nourharidy , @edzitron , @jason , @bennett...
ClassDojo, a school communications app for teachers, students and families, raises $30M, says it became profitable in 2019, and tripled its revenue in 2020
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch : Tweets: @nmasc_ , @nmasc_ , @toddg777 , @akumar , and @joshbuckley . Thanks: @joshconstine Tweets: Natasha / @nmasc_ : New: @ClassDojo's first eight years didn't in...
From 2012 to 2015, following Facebook's IPO, early stage startup valuations soared to unsustainable levels, and are now returning back to normal
I tweeted out this article from Techcrunch in the middle of last week: … And the response from the Twittersphere was a desire to hear my views on it.
What bubble? With so many high-growth companies building sustainable businesses, the unicorn boom has just begun
What Bubble? The Unicorn Boom Has Just Begun — For the anxious throng worried about spiraling startup valuations-a group now big enough to pass for conventional wisdom … Tweets: @paultoo , @mikesim...