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By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost GreenSky is scheduled to go public this week at a price ranging from $21 to $23 a share, giving it a valuation of up to $4.4 billion. The Atlanta-based fintech company’s IPO could raise up to $901 million, the largest fintech stock offering to date. Shares of publicly traded fintech companies […]
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Walmart paid $16 billion for a 77 percent majority stake in Indian ecommerce leader Flipkart, implying an exit valuation of $20.8 billion. Flipkart is not only Walmart’s largest acquisition to date, but also the largest ever acquisition of a VC-backed ecommerce company worldwide. Per Walmart filings, in the fiscal year ended […]
By Cale Moodie, Neptune Dash There is a prevailing belief that you need to grasp all the intricacies of cryptocurrency mining or blockchain technology before investing in a cryptocompany. But I’d encourage you to ask yourself whether everyone who invested in Google has a background in computer programming. The answer, of course, is definitely not. […]
By Tim Lacey, Infinity Nation Giving companies the budget they need to migrate to new websites and platforms? Sound thinking. Assuming the process will be straightforward and won’t require expert help? Expensive thinking. I’ve recently come across a number of PE investors who have invested in ecommerce businesses either in need of a platform migration or […]
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost DocuSign is scheduled to go public this week, having recently filed an S-1 at an offering price ranging from $24 to $26 per share. On Wednesday, DocuSign raised its pricing range to $26 to $28 per share, implying a market cap of $4.3 billion at the high-end and a 40 percent […]
By Matthew McCooe, Connecticut Innovations San Diego. New Haven. Boston. Besides cities that make for a nice waterside vacation, these destinations seem to have figured out the complex, yet irresistible, world of bioscience investment. For municipalities looking to stoke an innovation ecosystem, an anchor industry can provide the needed spark. One of the best anchor-industry […]
by Scott Tynes, Consero Global If you are the owner of any sort of for-profit organization, preparing for an audit can be quite stressful. An audit is designed to objectively evaluate your firm’s financial position and confirm that your organization complies with all relevant laws. No matter what industry you may be in, an audit can […]
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Carbon Black, the Cambridge, Massachusetts cybersecurity company, recently filed for its IPO, and it could well be the next unicorn. Carbon Black makes software that collects, stores and analyzes massive amounts of raw cloud data to predict and detect cybersecurity threats. Carbon Black’s IPO comes on the heels of a successful […]
By Jennifer Kristen Lee, Louis Lehot and Mark Radcliffe, DLA Piper The year 2017 saw the rise of a new form of financing for technology startups: the initial coin offering. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that companies raised $6 billion in ICOs last year, and with $1.8 billion going toward ICOs in the first two […]
By Brian Rich, Catalyst Investors I couldn’t help but laugh at the video of the auto-following suitcase, as it flopped around pointlessly trying to follow its master. However humorous this seems, seriously consider the amount of reinvention that has to take place at a luggage producer to possess the skills necessary to effect a viable, world-class […]