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28.10.2024 | Bitcoin's Rise: A New Era for Corporate Treasuries | Bitcoin is no longer just a digital currency for tech enthusiasts. It has evolved into a strategic asset for corporate treasuries. This shift marks a significant transformation in how businesses view their financial reserves. As traditional... |
28.10.2024 | На сколько денег может рассчитывать ИТ-предприниматель в разных ветках развития | 1 миллион рублей в месяц — на руководстве проектом или на должности лида в условном Сбере или Яндексе. Там же вас и похоронят вместе со специализацией, но до пенсии работать будет очень комфортно.
2–4 миллиона — если заняться малым бизнесом... |
22.10.2024 | DrumWave expands C-Suite leadership and moves global headquarters to historic Silicon Valley location | DrumWave Inc. is a high-tech disruptor headquartered at the historical 2465 Latham Street in Mountain View, CA — formerly the offices of the iconic General Magic.
Silicon Valley disruptor boosts global talent with key tech, product, and ope... |
25.09.2024 | Playfair Capital and top VC funds support female founders in Europe with remote office hours | Today, investor Playfair Capital and 200 of the world’s leading venture capital funds launched its plan to hold remote office hours for more than 300 female founders from across Europe as part of the 12th edition of ‘Female Founder Office H... |
14.09.2024 | Outward VC Closes £51M Fund, British Business Bank Leads Way With £30M | Listen to this article
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10.09.2024 | Outward VC's New Fund: A Beacon for Early-Stage Founders | In the bustling landscape of venture capital, a new wave is rising. Outward VC, a London-based investment firm, has announced the first close of its second fund at £51 million (approximately €60.5 million). This fund is not just a number; i... |
10.09.2024 | Outward VC announces first close of Fund II at £51M | London-based investment firm Outward VC has announced the first closing at £51m of its Fund II. The fund has received a cornerstone investment of £30m from the British Business Bank, which is deploying capital through its Enterprise Capital... |
10.09.2024 | Outward VC raises €60.5 million in first close to help early-stage fintech founders breakthrough | London-based investment firm Outward VC has announced the first closing at €60.5 million of its Fund II. The fund has received a cornerstone investment of €35.5 million from the British Business Bank, which is deploying capital through its ... |
02.09.2024 | Meesho appoints Mohit Rajani as Chief Product Officer | E-commerce major Meesho has appointed Mohit Rajani as Chief Product Officer (CPO). In his role as CPO, Mohit will lead Meesho’s product organisation, overseeing the product management, design, and analytics teams.
Before joining Meesho, Moh... |
19.08.2024 | The Rise and Fall of Startups: A Tale of Bankruptcy and Growth | In 2024, the landscape of American startups is a stark contrast to the optimism of previous years. The number of bankruptcies has surged by 60% compared to 2023. This alarming trend paints a picture of a sector grappling with the aftermath ... |
19.08.2024 | Количество банкротств стартапов в США за год увеличилось на 60% | В 2024 году число банкротств стартапов в США выросло на 60% к показателю 2023 года. Об этом пишет Financial Times со ссылкой на данные компании Carta.
В первом квартале 2024 года на банкротство подали 254 клиента Carta. Компания начала вест... |
14.08.2024 | The Funding Landscape: Navigating the Shifting Tides of 2024 | The funding landscape in the U.S. is a dynamic ocean, constantly shifting and reshaping. As we dive into 2024, we see waves of change in Series A and B funding. The first half of the year brought a surge, with investments rising 34% year ov... |
13.08.2024 | The Case For The Uncapped SAFE | 2 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Earlier this week, Peter Walker of Carta shared data on the use of different mechanisms in SAFEs issued for U.S. startups in 2024: 61% used a cap, 30% used a cap and a discount, 8% used only a discou... |
02.08.2024 | Singapore to merge EDBI, SEEDS Capital to form SG Growth Capital | Singapore will merge two state-backed investment agencies, EDBI and SEEDS Capital, to form a new entity next year, according to an announcement on Friday.
EDBI, the investment arm of Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB), and SEEDS C... |
27.07.2024 | The Rise of AI in Customer Service: Level AI's Bold Leap Forward | In the bustling world of customer service, the stakes are high. Companies vie for attention, aiming to create seamless experiences. Enter Level AI, a startup that’s reshaping the landscape with artificial intelligence. Recently, it secured ... |
25.07.2024 | You Need an Advisory Team More Than Ever. Here's Why — and How to Run One Effectively. The right advice, particularly in a company's early stages, can be an existential matter: how to surround yoursel... | For founders, building the right team is critical to lasting success. But the right one isn't always what we assume it to be, and choosing wrong can prove detrimental at best to a start-up and ruinous at worst. In fact, in his 2021 Harvard ... |
23.07.2024 | AI call center startup Level AI raises $39.4M to boost innovation
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03.07.2024 | Carta Data Reveals Modest Increases in Median Valuation and Round Size Across US Venture Ecosystem | Carta has released their First Cut—State of Private Markets: Q2 2024.
Initial data from Q2 2024 reportedly “shows modest increases in median valuation and round size across much of the U.S. venture ecosystem.”
Every quarter, Carta releases ... |
02.07.2024 | Alloy Appoints Kathryn Cook as Chief Marketing Officer To Fuel Company's Rapid Growth | NEW YORK, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alloy, the identity risk management platform for companies that offer financial products, announced that Kathryn Cook has joined the company as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) to support the comp... |
01.07.2024 |
Rich men, poor men, and the infinite housing crisis | In the game of housing crisis Rochambeau, we play with income, inventory, and policy. Inventory cannot beat inadequate incomes, but better compensation policies can.
The labor market has reached peak disengagement rates, partially driven by... |
01.07.2024 | Опционы в стартапах: гайд для сотрудника | Всем привет! Меня зовут Борис, я автор телеграм канала Борис опять и известной в некоторых кругах методички по поиску работы.
Стартапы часто предлагают опционы как часть компенсации. Как работает эта лотерея? Я решил разобраться и поделитьс... |
26.06.2024 | Female-founded fintechs raise just 3.4% of sector funding | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Fintech companies with at least one female co-founder raised 3.4% of all funding in the sector in 2023, data from venture capital firm Anthemis shows.
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26.06.2024 | Материалы для подготовки к собеседованию на позицию Data Scientist. Часть 4: Дизайн систем машинного обучения | Привет! Меня зовут Артем. Я работаю Data Scientist'ом в компании МегаФон (платформа для безопасной монетизации данных OneFactor). Мы строим скоринговые (credit scoring), лидогенерационные (lead generation) и антифрод (anti-fraud) модели на ... |
05.06.2024 | Crossing The Series A Chasm | 6 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
As we get deeper into 2024, there is increasing concern about the state of Series A fundraising. The bar for investment appears much higher, and fewer startups are reaching it.
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13.05.2024 | VC Fundraising Market Remained Slow in Q1 2024 But Valuations Held Steady – Carta Private Markets Report | Carta has released their State of Private Markets: Q1 2024 report.
Carta notes that the venture capital fundraising market “remained slow in Q1 2024, but valuations held steady or climbed at almost every stage.”
Carta also mentions that the... |
22.04.2024 | Rippling’s Parker Conrad on the company’s new round, new SF lease, and also, its newest critic | Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that the workforce management software outfit Rippling was on the cusp of closing a new, $200 million round of funding at a hefty $13.4 billion valuation led by Coatue. We also reported that the round fe... |
21.04.2024 | Seraphim Space launches second VC fund with nine investments already under its belt | Seraphim Space, the UK-based space tech investment group is formally launching its second VC fund following its first close with limited partners including Eutelsat, TechCrunch learned exclusively. The early stage fund will build a global p... |
10.04.2024 | Doing Diligence Well In Venture Investing: Going Back To The Future | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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Due diligence has made a comeback. According to a study of 700 venture capital firms, a typical deal once took 83 days to complete. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours o... |
05.04.2024 | Median Pre-Money Valuations Ticked Upwards for Most Venture Stages – Carta Private Markets Update for Q4 ’23 | Every quarter, Carta releases information on the startup ecosystem in their State of Private Markets report.
Carta, a software development firm focused on equity management software, explains in a blog post that it can take a few weeks for ... |
02.04.2024 | Remote Acquires Easop | Remote, a San Francisco, CA-based leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, completed the acquisition of Easop, a NYC-based compliance solution for businesses with international talent to grant and manage... |
21.03.2024 | Iterable in the List of Hot 100 Privately Held Software Companies | Iterable, the AI-powered customer communication platform, announced its inclusion in Citizens JMP’s March 2024 report, “Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies.” The report, now in its 12th year, highlights the best privately he... |
17.03.2024 | VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it | Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or at least knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when he tells me over Zoom that “in five years, I’ll have 50% of the worl... |
16.03.2024 | SpaceX doc leaks, TikTok ban gains steam, and Grok to go open-source | Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter recapping noteworthy happenings in tech over the past few days.
This week, TechCrunch viewed leaked documents out of SpaceX showing some questionable practices rel... |
13.03.2024 | Startups are hiring fewer workers and paying out less in equity comp | Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday episode, in which we dig into c... |
06.03.2024 | This Korean startup wants to take on Carta in cap table management | A South Korean startup called QuotaLab is on a quest to follow in the footsteps of Carta, the cap table management company that’s used by a host of startups and investors in the U.S.
Carta started life as “eShares” in 2012 as a cap table ma... |
28.02.2024 | Slice wants to make it easier for companies to distribute and track equity | It’s not all about the Benjamins, baby — particularly for executive compensation, but increasingly, all levels of employees at firms around the globe.
At the start of the first dot com boom in the 1990s, equity emerged as one of the most co... |
27.02.2024 | SimpleClosure just landed more VC funding, and its a sign that another wave of startup shutdowns is likely on the way | Premium Startups SimpleClosure just landed more VC funding, and its a sign that another wave of startup shutdowns is likely on the way
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26.02.2024 | VC Dick Costolo dishes on the new startup funding frenzy and valuations coming back to earth. 'The world now is much more sane.' | Premium Tech VC Dick Costolo dishes on the new startup funding frenzy and valuations coming back to earth. 'The world now is much more sane.'
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13.02.2024 | Venture Deal Count on Carta Declines 24% YoY, Cash Raised by Startups Fell 50% | During the rise and fall of an “unprecedented” bull market across 2021 and 2022, founders and investors had to navigate a wild ride of ups and downs, the team at Carta noted.
That volatility diminished in 2023. The startup ecosystem trundle... |
05.02.2024 | Startup funding is falling in most major cities. So why is Boston pulling ahead? | Startups Startup funding is falling in most major cities. So why is Boston pulling ahead?
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13.01.2024 | Exclusive: Carta just got hit with a new lawsuit from its former CTO alleging financial misconduct, whistleblower retaliation, and defamation | Premium Tech Exclusive: Carta just got hit with a new lawsuit from its former CTO alleging financial misconduct, whistleblower retaliation, and defamation
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09.01.2024 | Carta bet big on its 'Nasdaq for private markets.' It all came crashing down with a single post on LinkedIn. | Tech Carta bet big on its 'Nasdaq for private markets.' It all came crashing down with a single post on LinkedIn.
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08.01.2024 | Carta exits secondary trading following credibility hit | Roughly 72 hours after a prominent startup customer complained that Carta was misusing information with which it was entrusted — scaring many of Carta’s tens of thousands of other customers in the process — Carta is exiting the business tha... |
08.01.2024 | Carta CEO says company is investigating customer allegations of self-dealing with confidential information | A leading provider of equity management services for privately-held startups has been accused of using confidential customer information to boost its own business, sparking a wave of finger-pointing and recriminations within Silicon Valley’... |
07.01.2024 | Carta, the cap table management outfit, is accused of unethical tactics by a prominent startup | Carta, an ambitious 12-year-old Silicon Valley outfit, has gone through numerous iterations over time, originally inviting investors, startups, and employees to use its software to manage their cap tables and later aspiring to evolve into a... |
06.01.2024 | Carta Private Markets Update: Slight Increases in Valuations, Median Pre-Money Valuations Surged Across Nearly All VC Stages | Every quarter, Carta releases information on the startup ecosystem in their State of Private Markets report.
Carta‘s “first cut” of data as close to the end of the quarter as possible has been shred. This initial analysis focuses “on round ... |
02.01.2024 | Startup funding has never been more binary, with an extreme divide between haves and have-nots | Premium Tech Startup funding has never been more binary, with an extreme divide between haves and have-nots
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21.12.2023 | Seed to Series A: Strategic insights for tech founders in the 2024 venture landscape | Mike Cardamone Contributor
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14.12.2023 | VCs say 2024 tech trends to watch include more startup shutdowns, a defense-tech renaissance, and the rise of AI winners | Tech VCs say 2024 tech trends to watch include more startup shutdowns, a defense-tech renaissance, and the rise of AI winners
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08.12.2023 | Startups are doing fine, but scale-ups and unicorns are in deep water | It seems the younger a startup is today, the better its fundraising prospects.
Recent data from Carta pushes back against the narrative that 2023 has been tough on startups that are not building an AI product. In fact, grouping startups by ... |
07.12.2023 | Venture capital's steep decline is leaving female startup founders in the cold, new data shows | Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark in "Game of Thrones." HBO
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Venture capital's funk continued in the third quarter and shows no sign of stopping.
New data from Carta shows the sparse flow of funds has had an outsized impact o... |
01.12.2023 | Equity Management Platform Carta Announces Middle East Expansion | Global equity management company Carta announced plans to expand operations to the Middle East—citing a 180% increase in year-over-year bookings across the broader Asia Pacific region, and “launching with flagship Middle East customers incl... |
29.11.2023 | 16 creator startups that raised millions of dollars in 2023 despite a 'brutal' fundraising landscape | Agentio cofounders Arthur Leopold and Jonathan Meyers announced a $4.25 million seed round in November. Agentio. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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05.11.2023 | The great startup cash crunch is underway — and it's forcing late-stage companies to face their demise | Arantza Pena
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The VC funding picture for late-stage startups is looking pretty grim with capital hard to come by.
It's taking longer to raise funding and the bar to land a deal is pretty high.
Some late-stage startups are now fold... |
05.11.2023 | Capital Raised by Startups on Carta Declined by 38% from Q2 to Q3, Number of Venture Fundraising Rounds Fell by 27% | The downturn that has defined the venture capital industry for much of the past two years continued in the third quarter of 2023, according to an update from Carta.
The amount of capital raised by startups on Carta “declined by 38% from Q2 ... |
03.11.2023 | Substance over style: Seattle startups facing fewer down rounds than Bay Area, NYC counterparts | Seattle startups had fewer down rounds through the first nine months of the year compared to the Bay Area and New York. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Seattle startups are facing fewer down rounds than companies in the Bay Area and ... |
26.10.2023 | There could be a simple reason why seed deals are so expensive today | Why are seed deals still so expensive?
The global venture capital market has contracted steadily over the past year, but seed valuations have not, avoiding the massive cuts to round size and median valuations that later startup investment s... |
03.10.2023 | Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck two former VCs used to raise $4.7 million in funding for their startup The Grand, whose coaching service is used by Googlers, founders, and NBA players alike | The Grand founders Anita Hossain Choudhry and Rei Wang. The Grand This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The Grand, a startup providing career coaching as a service, has raised $... |
27.09.2023 | All venture funds use the ‘2 and 20’ fee structure, right? Not really | VCs often use the shorthand phrase “two and twenty” to refer to the 2% of annual management fees a venture fund might take and the 20% carried interest (or “performance fee”) it would charge. In a nutshell: If a venture fund turns a $100 mi... |
24.09.2023 | Startup Fundraising Slump Is Having Major Ripple Effects on Employee Compensation, Carta Report Claims | The “chill” in startup fundraising is having major ripple effects on startup employee compensation, according to a comprehensive update from Carta.
Startups on Carta collectively raised “about $28 billion through the first half of 2023.”
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13.09.2023 | Young startups are feeling the pinch as seed funding succumbs to the VC winter | Winter is coming for young startups. HBO This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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25.08.2023 | Lending startup Captain raised $107 million in the boom times. Now it's up for sale after layoffs and a capital drought. | A yacht sinks in the Mediterranean Sea. Nicola Belillo/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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23.08.2023 | Fin Capital has become the most prolific fintech investor in the world. Behind the scenes, there's been a phishing attack, whistleblower complaints, and a wave of exits. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Fin Capital is the world's most active venture-capital investor in fintech startups.
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20.08.2023 | Carta Releases State of Pre-Seed Fundraising Report for Q2 2023 | Every startup begins as a pre-seed company, the team at Carta notes in a blog post.
At Carta, they define “pre-seed” as any company that “has yet to raise a priced equity round.” |
15.08.2023 | The pre-seed market is recovering, but investors increasingly have the upper hand | While it’s often held that the early-stage investing market has generally fared better in this funding slowdown of the last 18 months or so, things haven’t actually been very good for pre-seed startups trying to raise money.
Thankfully, it ... |
14.08.2023 | The 23 most important VCs in the Rocky Mountain region, according to other VCs | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The Rocky Mountains are luring venture capitalists from tech hubs like Silicon Valley and New York.
They're finding promising startups in e... |
10.08.2023 | Three Best Practices For Startups Building Their Incentives | Gyehyon is a Venture Capital Founder, CEO & President of MVLASF, a forum for successful executives & entrepreneurs, and a published author. |
06.08.2023 | Venture Funding on Carta Inched Upward in Q2, as Startups Raised $15.4B+ in Q2 2023 | Venture funding on Carta inched upward in Q2.
Startups combined “to raise more than $15.4 billion in funding during the second quarter of 2023, up 26% from Q1.” In several other areas of the venture landscape, “such as early-stage valuation... |
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17.07.2023 | Across All Funding Stages, Q2 2023 Valuations Came in Above Those of Q1: Carta State of Private Markets Report | Every quarter, Carta releases information on the startup ecosystem in their State of Private Markets report.
It can take a few weeks for rounds to be recorded on their platform, so they produce a full analysis after they get the final numbe... |
14.07.2023 | Despite venture capital slowdown, these investors remain bullish on Seattle | From left: Emer Dooley, site lead at Creative Destruction Lab; Bill McAleer, managing director at Voyager Capital, and T.A. McCann, managing director at Seattle’s Pioneer Square Labs. (Valeriia Oshovska Photo)
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12.07.2023 | Building Bridges to International Markets: Key Takeaways from SiTEC 2023 | On July 6, 2023, the highly anticipated Summit for International Technology Enterprise Cooperation (SiTEC) took place at The Westin Singapore.
Organized by Transfong Ventures, the summit focused on the theme of “Exploring Internationalizati... |
08.07.2023 | Signs of hope for late-stage valuations | Data: Carta; Chart: Axios Visuals
Median pre-money Series C, D and E valuations for U.S. startups showed signs of bouncing back — or at least not falling anymore — in Q2, according to new data from Carta.
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07.07.2023 | Forced exit: Startup founders seek M&A deals amid funding slowdown | OwnTrail CEO Rebekah Bastian. (Rebekah Bastian Photo)
When Rebekah Bastian set out to raise funding for her startup in April, she had less than two months of cash runway left on her balance sheet.
The CEO and founder of Seattle startup OwnT... |
14.06.2023 | Executive Compensation | Your company’s compensation philosophy, process, and bands determine how most of your hires are compensated. Executive hires, however, are a little different. You’re often dealing with heated competition for a small pool of talent. Competit... |
25.05.2023 | Odyssey | 3.5 billion people in the world do not have access to reliable electricity, and over $1T in renewable energy investments are needed in emerging markets in the next decade. Achieving this coverage can only happen if we can greenlight a large... |
10.05.2023 | Could Odin be Europe’s answer to AngelList? | Most U.S.-based tech investors are likely familiar with smaller-ticket investor marketplaces AngelList and Carta. In Europe, Germany’s Bunch and the UK’s Vauban (acquired by by US-based Carta last year) have attempted to do similar job. But... |
04.05.2023 | Private Markets Report: Venture Capital Raised by Startups Plunged 80% from Q1 ’22 to Q1 ’23 | The transformation of the venture capital industry over the past year has been “stark,” according to a recent update shared by Carta.
Carta writes in a blog post that the total venture capital “raised by startups plunged 80% from Q1 2022 to... |
03.05.2023 | Down rounds are prevailing as power shifts to VCs again | It appears things are not going well for startups these days.
Down rounds, or a funding round in which a startup raises capital at a lower valuation than its last investment, have become more common than the venture community has seen in ne... |
10.04.2023 | Moj Mahdara On Closing The Gap Between Founders And Investors | Moj MahdaraKohl Murdock |
10.04.2023 | Have startup valuations fallen enough to feel sane again? | Welcome to the new week.
While recording Equity this morning, I noted with surprise an interesting bit of data that got me wondering about the current premium that venture investors are paying for startup shares, and if we can see anything ... |
09.04.2023 | Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC | Anthony Cimino Contributor
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05.04.2023 | As YC launches new batch, here’s how the early-stage venture market is faring today | Today, Y Combinator’s latest startup cohort will kick off a two-day presentation cycle. The Exchange loves a demo day, so we keep an eye on accelerators as best we can. We recently covered the latest concerning YC’s rival group Techstars’ g... |
23.03.2023 | Exclusive: $7 billion tech unicorn Carta bet big on managing employee equity for public companies. Now it's telling them to get off its platform. | The exterior of the New York Stock Exchange. Carta had hoped to capitalize on helping companies go public using its platform. Spencer Platt/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start... |
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16.03.2023 | Tempo acquires LiquidPlanner, a project management startup founded in 2006 | LiquidPlanner CEO Ted Hawksford. (LinkedIn Photo)
Boston-based Tempo Software is acquiring LiquidPlanner, the 17-year-old Seattle-based startup that sells a suite of productivity software tools to businesses.
Terms of the acquisition were n... |
10.03.2023 | Fresh Vine Wine, Inc. Announces Subscriptions of Approximately $3.14 Million from its Rights Offering | - |
07.03.2023 | Why We Invested in Banyan Infrastructure | Energize is proud to lead the $25 million Series B investment in Banyan Infrastructure, the software engine powering sustainable finance. Energize is joined by new investors SE Ventures and Elemental Excelerator and existing investors VoLo ... |
08.02.2023 | Compensation Is Hitting Its Digital Transformation Moment | Written by Lisa Wallace and Enrique Esclusa, Cofounders & Co-CEOs, Assemble |
01.02.2023 | SaaS startup Passthrough, which builds products for investors, closes its own Series A | For 2020-founded SaaS startup Passthrough, which serves the investment space, the deal flow has really come full circle.
Founded by Carta alumni Tim Flannery, Ben Doran and Alex Laplante, the startup closed a $10 million Series A round, it ... |
27.01.2023 | Exit comeback: After big slowdown in IPO and M&A activity, analysts optimistic for a rebound | SVB Private’s Chief Investment Officer Shannon Saccocia at the Aerlume Seattle restaurant. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek)
After startup exit activity took a nose dive in 2022 amid inflation, rising interest rates, and other macroeconomic force... |
26.01.2023 | Exclusive: 3 of Carta's top executives filed complaints about gender discrimination and retaliation in a matter of months | The US District Court for the Southern District of New York, where Carta is bringing a lawsuit against its former chief technology officer. Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start... |
11.01.2023 | Carta lays off 10% as CTO lawsuit looms | Carta, an equity management platform that was last privately valued at $7.4 billion, has cut 10% of its staff, confirming earlier rumors that a workforce reduction was going to happen. Judging by LinkedIn data, the layoff could have impacte... |
11.01.2023 | Inside Secfi’s 2022 state of stock options equity report | Frederik Mijnhardt Contributor
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10.01.2023 | Carta, previously sued for gender discrimination, is now suing its former CTO | Carta, the 11-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit whose core business is selling software to investors to track their portfolios, has sued its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who the company says was fired “for cause” almost three weeks ago, on ... |
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26.12.2022 | High-growth startups should start de-risking their path to IPO now | Carl Niedbala Contributor
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27.11.2022 | Deal Activity, Deal Value on Carta Platform Declined Every Quarter of 2022 | Both deal activity and deal value on the Carta platform have “declined in every quarter of 2022, falling back to pre-pandemic levels.”
That’s a sharp reversal from last year, “when startup investment was propelled to new heights.”
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23.11.2022 | A wave of late-stage startups quietly marked down their valuations in Q3 | Many startups are overvalued. But because they are also well-stocked with cash, they haven’t had to raise new funding at a lower or flat valuation — yet. However, new data from Carta found that cracks are starting to show.
Startup equity in... |