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| 03.04.2026 | iBase-t Secures Strategic Investment to Drive AI-Powered Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing | iBase-t, a key provider of Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software, secured a significant strategic growth investment. Global private equity firm TA Associates made the investment. This capital infusion propels iBase-t's product ... |
| 31.03.2026 | iBase-t Announces Strategic Growth Investment from TA to Accelerate AI-Powered Digital Manufacturing and MRO Transformation in Aerospace & Defense | iBase-t, a leading provider of Manufacturing Operations Management software for aerospace and defense manufacturers, today announced a strategic growth investment from TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm. The investment ... |
| 10.03.2026 | Advocacy Secures $3.5M for Transformative AI Litigation Platform | Advocacy, an AI-native legal technology firm, secured $3.5M in seed funding. The platform centralizes fragmented legal data. It offers a context-driven workspace. It builds a "case memory." It orchestrates facts, documents, and di... |
| 10.03.2026 | Avvoka Raises £14M in Funding | Avvoka, a London, UK-based legaltech platform, raised £14M in funding.
The round was led by Valhalla Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its US footprint and extend the platform’s ability to support high-volume, high-va... |
| 09.03.2026 | Advocacy Raises $3.5M in Seed Funding | Advocacy, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-native, context-driven litigation workspace platform, raised $3.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Relentless, with participation from Relativity, as well as Am Law 100 firm Fenwic... |
| 06.03.2026 | Advocacy: $3.5 Million Raised For AI-Native Litigation Workspace | Advocacy, an AI-native litigation technology company focused on context-driven legal workflows, has emerged from stealth with $3.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform designed specifically for litigation teams. The round was led ... |
| 26.02.2026 | UpGuard Secures $75M to Revolutionize Cyber Risk Management | UpGuard, a cybersecurity powerhouse, recently closed a $75M Series C funding round. Springcoast Partners led the investment. This capital infusion will propel UpGuard's AI-powered Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform. Plans include... |
| 26.02.2026 | UpGuard Raises $75M in Series C Funding to Accelerate Market Leadership in Cyber Risk Posture Management | Strategic Investment by Springcoast Partners Will Drive Product Innovation and Global Expansion
HOBART, Australia and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- UpGuard, a leader in cybersecurity and risk management, today announc... |
| 26.02.2026 | UpGuard: $75 Million Series C Raised For Cyber Risk Posture Management Expansion | UpGuard, a cybersecurity and risk management company, has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Springcoast Partners. The minority investment will support the company’s next phase of growth, including expanded capabilities f... |
| 03.02.2026 | Slice Global Equity Raises $25M Series A For AI Compliance Platform | Slice Global Equity, an AI-native global equity compliance and management platform for multinational companies, has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from Fenwick and... |
| 30.01.2026 | Slice Global Equity Secures $25M to Transform Worldwide Equity Management with AI | Slice Global Equity secured $25 million in Series A funding, led by Insight Partners, bringing its total to $32 million. The AI-native platform revolutionizes global equity compliance for multinational companies. It streamlines complex, mul... |
| 28.01.2026 | Slice Global Equity Raises $25M in Series A Funding | Slice Global Equity, a NYC-based provider of an AI-native global equity compliance and management platform for multinational companies, raised $25M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Fenwick ... |
| 28.01.2026 | Slice Global Equity Raises $25 Million Series A To Build AI-Native Global Equity Compliance Infrastructure | Slice Global Equity, an AI-native platform focused on global equity compliance and management for multinational companies, has raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners. Fenwick and Cooley participated as investors, alo... |
| 06.11.2025 | Aeva: $100 Million Investment Secured From Apollo To Strengthen Commercial Expansion | Aeva, a company specializing in next-generation sensing and perception systems, announced that funds managed by Apollo will invest $100 million in Aeva through the purchase of 4.375% Convertible Senior Notes. The investment is intended to s... |
| 08.10.2025 | Nava Benefits Closes $30M Series C Funding | Nava Benefits, a NYC-based tech-enabled benefits brokerage empowering HR teams with technology and support, raised $30M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Thrive Capital with participation from from Glynn Capital, GV, Quiet Capital, ... |
| 30.09.2025 | Rett Syndrome Research Trust Expands Internal Team to Speed the Advancement of Genetic Medicine Cures for Rett Syndrome | The Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT) is excited to announce a significant expansion of its research team, accelerating the organization's mission to find cures for Rett syndrome, a devastating neurological genetic disorder caused by muta... |
| 22.08.2025 | For law firms, AI promises ROI | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| 08.08.2025 | Snappt Fortifies Rental Security with Trigo Acquisition, $50M Funding | Snappt, a top AI-powered applicant fraud detection and income verification platform for multifamily housing, acquired Trigo, a leading rental payment history verifier. This pivotal acquisition, fueled by a $50 million growth financing facil... |
| 08.08.2025 | Snappt Buys Trigo And Secures $50 Million in Growth Funding | Snappt, an applicant trust platform for multifamily housing, has acquired Trigo, a company specializing in verifying rental payment history. The acquisition is supported by a $50 million growth financing facility from Hercules Capital.
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| 07.08.2025 | Smilegate to Publish Absurd Ventures' AAA Open-World Game Set in the A BETTER PARADISE Universe | Smilegate expands partnership with former GTA creative director Dan Houser for global AAA publishing
New game set in A Better Paradise universe in development, funded by Smilegate
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| 03.07.2025 | Halogen Ventures: $30 Million Fund Closed To Invest In Family-Focused Startups | Halogen Ventures, which is Jesse Draper’s venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups, announced the closing of a third fund at $30 million.
With this fund, Halogen will prioritize investments in the future of family category with ... |
| 26.06.2025 | VC deal sizes dropped across funding stages in Q1: Fenwick/JPMorgan report | - |
| 21.05.2025 | Texas Corporate Law Changes Challenge Delaware’s Dominance | Texas Senate Bill No. 29
On May 7, 2025, the Texas Legislature adopted Senate Bill No. 29 (first introduced last February), which provides for significant amendments to the Texas Business Organizations Code (TBOC). The amendments have been ... |
| 20.02.2025 | SingleFile: $9 Million (Series A) Raised For Legal & Compliance Technology | SingleFile, a leading innovator in legal & compliance tech, announced the completion of its Series A funding round at $9 million. This milestone brings the company’s total funding to over $24 million since its founding in 2019 and $15 m... |
| 22.01.2025 | Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners Complete Acquisition of Smartsheet | Smartsheet, the AI enhanced enterprise grade work management platform, today announced the completion of its acquisition by funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) and Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) in a transaction valued at approximat... |
| 10.01.2025 | Forecast Digest: IPO, M&A And Venture Markets Expected To Gain In 2025 | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The startup world begins 2025 on a decidedly more upbeat note than it did the previous year. The renewed optimism is in part due to the modest uptick in venture funding last year, when global startu... |
| 19.12.2024 | 5 Trends In Tech And Startups We’re Watching In 2025, From An M&A Rebound To A Defense Tech Boom | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Will the M&A market pick up next year and, with it, the IPO pipeline?
And what about the tech job market, which again saw tens of thousands of workers in the U.S. alone lose their jobs in 2024?
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| 23.09.2024 | Securities Law Updates | The federal court decision that struck down the FTC’s noncompete ban, blocking it from taking effect nationwide on September 4
New filing deadlines for Schedule 13G, which become effective on September 30
New increases to SEC registration f... |
| 01.09.2024 | SEC Files Brief in Support of Climate Disclosure Rules | On August 6, the SEC filed its much-anticipated legal brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting its controversial Climate Rules and responding to the arguments laid out in petitioners’ consolidated petitions for review of the ... |
| 16.08.2024 | Lilly Completes Acquisition of Morphic to Improve Outcomes and Expand Options for People Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Broadens Lilly's immunology pipeline with Morphic's oral integrin therapies, including MORF-057
Reinforces the company's strategy of delivering potential first or best-in-class therapies in the field of gastroenterology
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| 08.07.2024 | Lilly to Acquire Morphic to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Acquisition to expand Lilly's immunology pipeline with oral integrin therapies
INDIANAPOLIS and WALTHAM, Mass., July 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Morphic Holding, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORF) today announced a defini... |
| 10.06.2024 | Fortinet to acquire Lacework, enhancing cybersecurity platform | Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company.
Lacew... |
| 20.05.2024 | FDNA and Genome Medical Improve Access to Critical Diagnostic Services for Children in Medically Underserved Areas | Partnership combines AI technology and telehealth genetic counseling services to improve access and quality of care through early interventions for children with developmental conditions
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and ATLANTA, May 20, 2024... |
| 14.09.2023 | Athlete Investing Marketplace PredictionStrike Raises $10 Million Series A Round | Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) drops back to pass during the first half of an ... [+] NFL football game against the Detroit Lions Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)Copyright 2023 The Associ... |
| 13.04.2023 | Meet Blake Resnick, a 23-year-old college dropout who went on to win a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine, and is now worth over $100 million | Meet Blake Resnick, the 23-year-old college dropout who won a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine and is now worth over $100 million. BRINC
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| 13.04.2023 | Meet Blake Resnick, a 23-year-old college dropout who went on to win a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine, and is now worth over $100 million | Blake Resnick, the founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, is now worth $100 million, per Bloomberg.
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| 14.10.2022 | Your Guide to the dot.LA Summit 2022 | We're so excited to be bringing back our annual dot.LA Summit, held in-person October 21st-22nd at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. Featuring hundreds of top founders, investors and operators for the largest celebration of L.A.'s tech an... |
| 04.03.2022 | Safer urinary catheter, pulse oximeter for all skin colors and a GI stent win prizes at UW competition | Team InSTENT: Ziming (Jimmy) Ye, Brandon Lou, Gillian Pereira, Evan Ross and Clara Black. (UW Photo)
Students from Pacific Northwest colleges and universities jostled for a slate of awards Thursday at the annual University of Washington Hol... |
| 22.02.2022 | WTIA picks 30 of Washington state’s ‘best and brightest’ tech startups for Founder Cohort | (BigStock Illustration)
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has selected 30 Washington state tech startups for its seventh Founder Cohort Program.
The virtual program is designed to help seed-stage startups grow and scale ... |
| 02.09.2021 | The Rise And Fall Of Startup Darling Elizabeth Holmes | NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 21: Theranos founder and inventor Elizabeth Holmes attends the 2015 Time 100 ... [+] Gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 21, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)Getty Im... |
| 11.08.2021 | The legal experts speak: Everything you wanted to know about funding (but were afraid to ask) | The legal experts speak: Everything you wanted to know about funding (but were afraid to ask) Aug 11, 2021
Which criteria do litigation funders use to make decisions about their investments? What issues should counsel consider when contempl... |
| 18.06.2021 | The IPO Glut of 2020: Why Valuations Have Gone Too Far | NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 22: People stand near the broker's booth for 500.com Limited (NYSE: WBAI) as ... [+] it's IPO is set on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on November 22, 2013 in New York City. 500.com Limited, an online sport... |
| 26.04.2021 | How the Pandemic Has Changed Fans' Experience for Good | The COVID-19 pandemic has separated friends, family and colleagues and halted most in-person shared experiences. On the flip side, over the past year gaming, sports and entertainment companies have found new ways to help keep us engaged, co... |
| 25.02.2021 | How top startup lawyer Dawn Belt thinks about company-building in the age of SPACs | Dawn Belt has been working with top tech companies for two decades, most recently helping commercial electric vehicle company Proterra go public as a SPAC in January.
Now she’ll be joining us at TC Early Stage in April to talk about buildin... |
| 10.02.2021 | Watch: The Future of Content Moderation Online | As Big Tech cracks down on moderation after the Capitol attack and Wall Street braces for more fallout from social media's newfound influence on stock trading, legislators are eyeing changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ... |
| 23.12.2020 | Statement on Primary Direct Listings | Statement on Primary Direct Listings
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| 15.12.2020 | Startup valuations have recovered from summer lows | As 2020 comes to a close, some parts of the startup world are completing a loop, ending the year where they began.
Startup valuations, for example, as seen in the Silicon Valley area are effectively back to where they were at the start of t... |
| 24.10.2020 | An inside look at how Big Law firm Perkins Coie built up a diverse attorney base, winning major clients like Microsoft and Intel | Law An inside look at how Big Law firm Perkins Coie built up a diverse attorney base, winning major clients like Microsoft and Intel
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| 20.10.2020 | Recruiters and headhunters say these are the 8 hottest law firms to work at if you want to work in the booming tech industry | Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 06.08.2020 | Как кризис меняет условия венчурных сделок | Стартапам все труднее привлекать финансирование, а то, которое удается найти в условиях кризиса, может не всегда пойти на пользу компании. Денис Кузнецов, инвестиционный менеджер фонда Digital Horizon разбирает, какие условия инвесторов ста... |
| 04.08.2020 | Autonomous vehicle reporting data is driving AV innovation right off the road | Grace Strickland Contributor
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| 18.07.2020 | The Exchange: Which VCs are the most popular, why enterprise startups are hot, and how patient are public investors? | Welcome to The Exchange, an upcoming weekly newsletter featuring TechCrunch and Extra Crunch reporting on startups, money and markets. You can sign up for it here to receive it regularly when it launches on July 25th, and catch up on prior ... |
| 15.06.2020 | A new Silicon Valley venture report shocks — because of how little the pandemic has impacted dealmaking | The law firm Fenwick & West has published some new data to highlight how COVID-19 has affected the world of venture capital in Silicon Valley. The biggest surprise? It’s how little impact the global pandemic seems to have had on dealmak... |
| 11.06.2020 | What Slowdown? Silicon Valley Is Doing Nearly as Many Deals as Last Year | Deal volume increased – especially at the later stages – and software valuations fared much better than hardware companies in April compared to March, according to a Silicon Valley VC Flash Report released Friday from the law firm Fenwick &... |
| 23.04.2020 | How deal terms are changing right now | Trying to raise money for a startup is never a walk in the park. Still, there are good times, there are bad times, and there is right now, a moment of uncertainty unlike anything that most of us have experienced in our lifetimes.
Even if a ... |
| 23.04.2020 | Alert: SBA Says Paycheck Protection Program Loans Are Not For Larger ‘Small’ Businesses With Liquidity Access | After the uproar over PPP loans to Shake Shack and Ruth's Chris Steak House, new guidance clarifies ... [+] that PPP loans are not for businesses that have adequate liquidity and capital access. Getty Images |
| 22.04.2020 | New data details the decline in Silicon Valley’s Q1 venture activity | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Today we’re unpacking some new data concerning what happened to Silicon Valley’s venture capital market in Q1, with a spe... |
| 09.04.2020 | It’s ‘bullshit’ that VCs are open for business right now, but that could change in a month | Earlier today, to get a sense of what’s happening in the land of venture capital, the law firm Fenwick & West hosted a virtual roundtable discussion with New York investors Hadley Harris, a founding general partner with Eniac Ventures; ... |
| 29.03.2020 | The Station: Bird and Lime layoffs, pivots in a COVID-19 era and a $2.2 trillion deal | Hello folks, welcome back (or hi for the first time) to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the all the ways people and packages move around this world. I’m your host, Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch.... |
| 17.02.2020 | So much for pessimism | After WeWork exploded there was — at least supposedly — a change in sentiment among investors and founders alike. Gone were the days of easy nine-figure rounds, expensive growth, negative unit economics and the rest of the excess that Start... |
| 18.12.2019 | Is a direct listing the right choice for your company? | Ran Ben-Tzur Contributor
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| 29.07.2019 | Startups, Especially Software Startups, Are Raising Up Rounds At Near Record Pace | 34 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Startup valuations look strong as 2019 rolls into its second half. Especially software startup valuations.
A few weeks back the Crunchbase News team published a raft of information ... |
| 29.03.2019 | Lyft’s IPO, Big Returns, And Why Venture Is Still Hard | 25 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 15.03.2019 | How early is too early to start a board? Never too early. | Pictured Forest, Alan and Len |
| 01.03.2019 | Verified Expert Lawyer: Sam Angus | Sam Angus has been a lawyer in Silicon Valley since the 1990s. Today, he represents some of the biggest names in the startup world, from their earliest days through acquisitions and IPOs, and including four acquisitions last year: TSheets, ... |
| 06.07.2018 | Jina Choi, SF Regional Director of the SEC, is coming to Disrupt to talk ICOs and more | The Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency responsible for protecting investors and maintaining fair and orderly functioning of our securities markets, has 11 regional offices, including in Miami, New York, Boston and Chicag... |
| 10.01.2018 | Winning deals as a new venture capital fund | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 01.09.2017 | Equity podcast: The Uber saga, delayed IPOs and just what is an ICO? | Hello and welcome back to Equity, a social experiment regarding how many acronyms an audience can endure before passing out. Each week we dive into the world of venture capital, looking to understand exactly what’s going on behind the money... |
| 21.08.2017 | SEC is investigating Spotify’s plans to go public without an IPO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 21.08.2017 | SEC is investigating Spotify’s plans to go public without an IPO | Officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have met with Spotify executives to examine the company’s plans to bypass the initial public offering (IPO) market and list shares directly on the New York Stock Exchange, accordin... |
| 31.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, July 31 | GOING DIRECT
I’m back! Huge thanks to Polina Marinova, Jen Wieczner and Robert Hackett for filling in. Today I’m diving into direct listings.
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| 28.07.2017 | Redfin debut offers hope for a tech IPO market in need of good news | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 28.07.2017 | Redfin debut offers hope for a tech IPO market in need of good news | Redfin is not exactly a household name in the world of consumer tech — it’s a residential real estate brokerage built on the internet — but it’s the closest thing the tech IPO market has to a hero as we enter the second half of 2017. Follow... |
| 28.07.2017 | This venture firm was an early investor in the last three Seattle-area startups to go public | There’s something in common with the last three companies to go public in the Seattle area.
That would be Madrona Venture Group, which was an early investor in Impinj (IPO in July 2016), Apptio (IPO in September 2016), and Redfin, which deb... |
| 26.07.2017 | The IPO market in 2017? Underwhelming so far, underscores a new survey | The IPO market isn’t looking much more vibrant than last year, underscores a new survey. That could be discouraging for those who hoped a blah year would lead to a booming one. In fact, unless the fall is an especially active time for IPOs ... |
| 27.03.2017 | Collaboration at Fenwick & West Steers Firm through complex deals | One of the top deal firms in the latest update to the Life Sciences Law Firm Index from Lake Whillans, Above the Law and MedCity News, Fenwick’s Michael Shuster—the co-chair of its life sciences practice and an intellectual property partner... |
| 08.03.2017 | Copyright Troll’s Intellectual Property Goes Up For Sale to Pay Giganews | Perfect 10 was an adult entertainment magazine that also operated a subscription website featuring images of women.
At some point, however, the company decided that there was potentially more money to be made from suing companies than getti... |
| 31.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, January 31 | VISIONS OF UNICORNS
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| 27.01.2017 | Number of unicorn funding deals plummeted 50% in 2016 | Unicorns are increasingly starting to look like regular horses, and their magic is fading. Back when there were only a handful of private companies valued at over $1 billion, the term certainly had meaning and value. Today, however, there a... |
| 27.01.2017 | Number of unicorn funding deals plummeted 50% in 2016 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 24.01.2017 | Cowboy Ventures adds longtime attorney Ted Wang as partner | Ted Wang has spent his career helping startups make important decisions, from Facebook, to Twitter, to Dropbox to Jet. He’s done it as a partner with the law firm Fenwick & West over the last decade. Now he’s betting his skills can tran... |
| 25.12.2016 | WTF is a liquidation preference? | If you work in the tech industry, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term “liquidation preference” at some point. You may have experienced a chill as the words fell upon your ears, too. There’s a non-medical reason for this: liquidation preferenc... |
| 14.11.2016 | Valuation metrics show weakening for the fourth straight quarter | The law firm Fenwick & West quietly released its third-quarter venture capital survey this past Friday, and its findings aren’t exactly shocking. At the same time, they hint at problems to come for some startups.
The survey, which analy... |
| 28.08.2016 | Life science IPOs fall in first half of 2016 | A total of 16 life science companies successfully completed an IPO in the first two quarters of 2016 compared to just four tech IPOs, according to a new report from technology law firm Fenwick & West. While IPO activity has been stronge... |
| 08.08.2016 | Valuations wilt | A year ago, startup valuations hit a 12-year peak as the numbers of companies joining the billion-dollar-plus club soared.
Today, those numbers are looking far more run of the mill. So suggests a new survey published by law firm Fenwick &am... |
| 22.02.2016 | Up rounds and share prices down in 4Q 2015: Fenwick | National law firm shares data revealing just how market deflation affects venture financings
We all might have guessed that the deflating bubble in Silicon Valley, mirrored by an ongoing global financial market decline, resulted in weaker v... |
| 10.02.2016 | So many unicorns: New study suggests some billion-dollar companies may not be so magical | Photo via Shutterstock.
Unicorns — privately-held tech startups valued at more than $1 billion — are on the rise. However, a new study by Fenwick and West suggests that these companies might be overvalued, gaining the necessary funding to q... |
| 10.02.2016 | Doomed-i-corns: Unicorns Seemingly Reach a Tipping Point | This morning, the law firm Fenwick & West published new findings about all the U.S.-based unicorn financings that took place during the last nine months of 2015. It’s rife with interesting nuggets, but perhaps most fascinating is that i... |
| 27.01.2016 | The Surprisingly Not-Terrible Effect Of All Those Late-Stage Rounds On IPOs | You’ve seen the headlines; you know that over the last couple of years, a growing number of startups has gone public at valuations below where they were valued as privately held companies (or sunk past them quickly).
You’ve also come to und... |
| 09.12.2015 | Going Public Isn’t Selling Out, It’s The Best Way To Stay Alive | Sheeroy Desai Contributor
Sheeroy Desai is co-founder and CEO of Gild.
When Amazon went public in 1997, its stock opened 62.5 percent above the target price and the company ended its day $54 million richer than it had started it. In the thr... |
| 17.11.2015 | Percent of down rounds for later-stage startups jumps to 11% | New data shows median increases dropped to their lowest level since Q3 2014
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw more than 500 attendee... |
| 29.10.2015 | Pay To Play: How Investors Get Burned Fast In A Downturn | Earlier this year, the law firm Fenwick & West published a report analyzing the financing terms of 37 U.S.-based venture-backed companies that raised money at valuations of $1 billion or more in the 12-month period ending March 31.
The ... |
| 18.07.2015 | Welcome To The Unicorn Club, 2015: Learning From Billion-Dollar Companies | It’s been over a year since we wrote our original post sharing our analysis of the last decade’s most successful U.S.-based, venture-backed tech companies.
As we wrote in our original post – many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who... |
| 17.07.2015 | Employees Wise Up | This week, a Bay Area founder was taken aback when an engineer being recruited by his startup asked for both its cap table and information regarding the liquidation preferences of its venture backers. The candidate presumably “worked somewh... |
| 10.02.2015 | The taxation of employee share schemes explained | Building a technology company isn’t easy; a huge range of specialist skill sets are needed – software developers, data scientists, designers, product managers and engineers to name a few.
The vast majority of startups will fail miserably, a... |
| 09.02.2015 | Matt Barrie: The taxation of employee share schemes explained | Building a technology company isn’t easy; a huge range of specialist skill sets are needed – software developers, data scientists, designers, product managers and engineers to name a few.
However in the Western world we have a crisis in edu... |
| 16.11.2014 | Series B Fundraising For Your Enterprise Startup | Glenn Solomon Contributor
Glenn Solomon is a managing partner with GGV Capital. Some of his recent investments include Pandora, Successfactors, Nimble Storage, Isilon, Domo, Square, Zendesk, Opendoor and AlienVault. His personal blog, going... |
| 14.11.2014 | Reddit Interim CEO Ellen Pao: A Rare Instance Of A Woman Running A Tech Company | Amid the hoopla over the defenestration of Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, few noticed that the social news site did something else really interesting: It named a woman as its interim CEO, one who seems to have a good chance of holding the job perm... |
| 05.11.2014 | Glu Mobile sues over alleged Deer Hunter ripoff Kill Shot | Glu Mobile is suing mobile game studio Hothead Games for copying it popular Deer Hunter 2014 mobile game. Hothead’s Kill Shot isn’t about hunting deer at all. Rather, you’re a sniper that hunts enemy soldiers. Nevertheless, Glu alleges in a... |
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Glu Mobile is suing mobile game studio Hothead Games for copying it popular Deer Hunter 2014 mobile game. Hothead’s Kill Shot isn’t abo... |
