| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| May 24, 2022 | Anduril is raising up to $1.2B, sources say at a $7B pre-money valuation, for its defense tech | Technology built to improve state resilience — be it in the form of cybersecurity, energy independence, national defense or something else entirely — has come into stronger focus in the wake of the war in Ukraine, and the lines it has drawn... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | How to Protect and Retain Control Over Your Business | March 10, 2021 6 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Recently, I was in a Zoom meeting where a founder was panicking at the prospect of closing his Series A. I was taken aback as I expected him to be prou... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | WeWork May Reduce Its Valuation Ahead Of IPO By Tens Of Billions | 18 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
WeWork is considering aiming for a valuation between $20 billion to $30 billion in its upcoming IPO—far less than its last valuation as a private company—Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The We ... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | 4 key things to know on your startup’s way to a US IPO | Share this article:
After filing for an IPO at the New York Stock Exchange last week, eCommerce company, Jumia is gearing up to become the first Africa-focused tech startup to list on a major global exchange. If everything goes according to... |
| Dec 10, 2018 | Former unicorn genetics startup Human Longevity loses its horn | Investors like Celgene, Illumina and GE Ventures agreed, pouring hundreds of millions into the company, including a funding round in 2017 that valued HLI at more than $1.6 billion.
Since that peak, however, the company’s value has declined ... |
| Jun 26, 2017 | Here’s The Math Behind Teespring’s Painful Recapitalization | 17 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
At the end of May, Teespring, the beleaguered tee shirt sales platform funded by the likes of Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Khosla Ventures, underwent a stiff round of layoffs. According to... |
| Jun 26, 2017 | Here’s The Math Behind Teespring’s Painful Recapitalization | 14 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
At the end of May, Teespring, the beleaguered tee shirt sales platform funded by the likes of Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Khosla Ventures, underwent a stiff round of layoffs. According to... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | AR startup Meta raises $50M at around $300M valuation, eyes up China | The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware and software has raised a $50 million round to keep up the pace.
Meta, which makes an AR headse... |
| May 23, 2016 | Snapchat is raising more money around $20 billion valuation | Snapchat may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that ... |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Remitly raises $38.5M more to take on Western Union, passes $1b transferred annually | Remittances are a huge business, with $582 billion transferred in 2015 and $432 billion of that sent specifically to emerging markets, according to the World Bank. Today, one of the bigger startups in the field has raised some funds of its ... |
| Dec 10, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Why does Magic Leap need another $827M?
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap is reportedly raising $827 million in a third r... |
| Dec 10, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Uber’s $2.1B Series G Could Give The Company A Post-Money Valuation Of Up To $65B | Uber, the on-demand transportation company that has amassed around $10 billion in funding to date, is raising once more. This time, it is looking to to $2.1 billion, in a Series G round that could value the company has high as $64.6 billion... |
| Aug 20, 2015 | ZocDoc Joins The Unicorn Club (Officially) | In June of last year, VC Experts discovered a filing that suggested ZocDoc, a roughly eight-year-old, New York-based online medical care schedule service, was raising a new round of funding worth $152 million and that valued the company at ... |
| Jul 21, 2015 | Flipboard Has Filed To Raise Another $50M | Flipboard’s 75 percent jump in the last six months has it clocking in at over 70 million monthly active users. And it looks like that is not the only recent bump for the startup: It appears to have quietly raised another $50 million in fund... |
| Jul 14, 2015 | Twilio Offers Early Shareholders Liquidity In Repurchase Offer | Twilio, the startup that lets developers integrate voice, text and other communications services into mobile and web apps by way of a set of APIs, has stayed mum in answer to questions of when it might finally make the leap to go public.
Bu... |
| Jun 30, 2015 | Cloud Finance Intelligence Startup Adaptive Insights Gets $75M, Reportedly At A Unicorn Valuation | The rise of the CFO from back-office number cruncher to business leader is being played out across a number of companies, from tech leaders like Twitter through to consumer giants like PepsiCo. That shift of gravity, it turns out, is also b... |
| May 24, 2015 | Who Will Be Hurt Most When The Tech Bubble Bursts? Not VCs | Manish Goyal Contributor
Bharat Ramnani Contributor
Editor’s note: Manish Goyal is the senior manager and Bharat Ramnani is head of business of valuation and advisory services at Aranca.
Do we have a ticking time bomb on hand? The debate ov... |
| May 4, 2015 | Twilio raises $100M; is now worth over $1B (updated) | Telecommunications enabler Twilio has raised a $100 million series E round that values the company at over $1 billion, according to government filings.
The news was first reported in Forbes, citing research firm VC Experts, which uncovered ... |
| May 4, 2015 | Twilio raises $100M; is now worth over $1B (updated) | 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!
Telecommunications enabler Twilio has raised a $1... |
| Feb 18, 2015 | Uber’s Series E Round Surges To $2.8 Billion | Uber has expanded its latest round of financing by $1 billion. The company originally secured $1.2 billion and has increased that to a total capacity for the Series E round at $2.8 billion, according to the NYT.
Uber has confirmed the expan... |
| Dec 27, 2014 | These 20 companies achieved $1B+ valuations in 2014 (updated) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Update 12/29: We’ve added AdYen.
Update 12/30: We’ve added IronSource.
Update 1/6/2015: We’ve added Credit Karma.
It is really, really ... |
| Dec 27, 2014 | These 20 companies achieved $1B+ valuations in 2014 (updated) | Update 12/29: We’ve added AdYen.
Update 12/30: We’ve added IronSource.
Update 1/6/2015: We’ve added Credit Karma.
It is really, really difficult to create a company and grow it to the point where investors believe it is worth $1 billion or ... |
| Dec 15, 2014 | WeWork raises $355M at nearly $5B valuation, plans 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!
Update Dec. 18: We’ve corrected the paragraph abo... |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Palantir Raises $50 Million Of Reported $400 Million Round | Palantir, the big data company that’s one of the Valley’s most valuable, having secured clients like the NSA, FBI and CIA early on before building up its private-sector customer base, has raised another $50 million, according to a new SEC f... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Altiscale Lands $30M To Continue Building Hadoop Cloud Service | When you think of Hadoop, you probably think of a complex on-premises set up in your data center, but Altiscale wants to reduce some of that complexity by moving the whole thing to the cloud and offering Hadoop as a service. Today it got $3... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Uber Confirms New $1.2B Funding Round At $40B Valuation | Uber, the transportation and ride-sharing startup, has just announced that it has raised another $1.2 billion in funding, and we have separately confirmed with the company that this latest round was made at a $40 billion valuation.
For now ... |
| Nov 22, 2014 | Former employee says ZocDoc is a ‘frat house’ where female employees are regularly harassed | A former employee of the doctor appointment booking startup ZocDoc says the company fostered a work environment akin to a “frat house” that was generally accepting of sexual harassment against women. She has now filed a lawsuit against ZocD... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Hortonworks First Hadoop Vendor To File S-1 | Hortonworks, the big data processing platform built on top of the open source Apache Hadoop filed its S-1 paperwork today as its first step toward an initial public offering. In doing so it beat competitors Cloudera and MapR to the punch.
H... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Before $100 Million Raise, Square Was In Talks With Apple | According to a filing obtained by VCExperts, Square has raised another $100 million in capital. The company authorized 6.4 million Series E shares, according to the document, at a per-share price of $15.46.
Square has raised incredible amou... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Snapchat is prepping for a major new investment, likely from Alibaba | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The disappearing-message app Snapchat has been quietly structuring its business for a major new investment. Reports this week say that ... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Snapchat is prepping for a major new investment, likely from Alibaba | The disappearing-message app Snapchat has been quietly structuring its business for a major new investment. Reports this week say that Snapchat is preparing to sell part of itself to soon-to-be public e-commerce giant Alibaba.
VC Experts, w... |
| Jun 24, 2014 | ZocDoc is raising $152M, bringing its valuation to $1.6B | Doctor-booking services are worth a lot, apparently.
ZocDoc is reportedly raising a $152 million round at a $1.6 billion valuation, according to a Delaware Certificate of Corporation filing grabbed by VC Experts, and first reported by Fortu... |
| Jun 24, 2014 | ZocDoc fresh capital raise follows move into employer wellness space | Backers who participated in a previous $75 million Series C round include Goldman Sachs and DST Global. Among its other investors are Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff and SV Angel.
Promoted
Covid-19... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | Home Deco Site Houzz Raises $150M At A $2.3B Post-Money Valuation | Looks like home-remodelling and design site Houzz is upsizing. Filings that the startup made at the end of May in Delaware, uncovered by the folks at VCExperts, indicate that it is raising a Series D round of $150 million, at a post-money v... |
| Apr 2, 2014 | Lyft Raises $250 Million From Coatue, Alibaba, And Third Point To Expand Internationally | Lyft has officially closed a huge, $250 million round of funding that it will use to aggressively expand its on-demand ride-sharing service in the U.S. and internationally.
The Series D round of financing, which will put its war chest on pa... |
| Apr 1, 2014 | Much Of Intel’s $740M Cloudera Investment Likely Went To Existing Shareholders | Update: Alan Saldich, Cloudera’s VP of marketing informed TechCrunch in a tweet that a “majority” of Intel’s money did in fact go to the company. We don’t know the exact percentage yet, but when the Form D is released, I’ll dig into it.
Yes... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | WhatsApp Was Valued At ~$1.5B In Final Round Before Sale | WhatsApp did a great job of being surreptitious about its funding while growing into a messaging monster. But as they say, the truth always comes out.
In this case, the truth is that the company had three rounds of financing, with Sequoia a... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Filing Indicates Snapchat Is Looking To Raise $54.5M At Around A $2B Valuation | According to a filing uncovered by VC Experts, Snapchat has authorized a new share class called Series C Preferred. The class of 1.6 million shares is set to be valued at $34.0893 each, according to a comment the group provided to Business ... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Funding Daily: Taffy | 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!
Recently, I took a trip to Pier 39 in San Francis... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Box strikes back at Dropbox with $100M round and a $2B valuation | 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!
Cloud storage provider Box is raising a $100 mill... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Box strikes back at Dropbox with $100M round and a $2B valuation | Cloud storage provider Box is raising a $100 million round, according to a public document filed last month.
On Oct 14., Box authorized the sale of 5.55 million shares of preferred stock at $18 a share — or a total of $100 million — which w... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Funding Daily: Taffy | Recently, I took a trip to Pier 39 in San Francisco just to see what all the tourism-love was about. What I found was taffy.
There were barrels and barrels of beautiful taffy — all different flavors.
Which I’ve got to imagine is kind of lik... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Dropbox-Rival Box Is Raising $100M In New Funding At A $2B Valuation | Enterprise cloud file storage firm Box is raising an additional $100 million in capital at a valuation of around $2 billion. A filing with the State of Delaware was first noticed by VC Experts. We’ve heard from sources that Box is indeed ra... |
| Jul 19, 2013 | Let’s Have General Solicitation As Congress Intended It | Editor’s note: William Carleton practices law in Seattle, blogs daily at Counselor @ Law and writes a weekly column on implementation of the JOBS Act for VC Experts. Follow him on Twitter at @wac6.
Everyone passionate about the startup comp... |
| Jun 17, 2013 | How to value and price your startup | What each founder should know when setting up a preliminary valuation to attract outside capital
When a founder determines it is worth his while to attempt to raise money for his concept, the basic issue becomes one of price. If, for exampl... |
| Nov 22, 2012 | Why crowdfunding is disruptive to angels, but not to VCs | 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!
Six months ago I called the Director of Business ... |
| Nov 22, 2012 | Why crowdfunding is disruptive to angels, but not to VCs | Six months ago I called the Director of Business Development for a well-respected angel group in California and told him about my company, CircleUp, an equity-based crowdfunding platform that would allow his angels to invest into private co... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Update: Airbnb’s $117M Form D is an update to an earlier round | 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!
Update 10/24/2012 – (12:10 p.m. PT): Someone poin... |
| Aug 28, 2012 | Watch out for savage VC deal terms when raising money | Terms in a term sheet entrepreneurs should look out for
Some of the financings in ugly investment climates are typically proposed by venture capitalists on deal terms that approach the punitive.
By that I mean a Series A Round (or any profe... |
| Sep 15, 2011 | Cloud storage provider Box.net spurns $500M offer (exclusive) | 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!
Above: Cloud storage provider Box.net was a prese... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | Electric car maker Fisker Automotive raising $200M at $2.2B valuation | 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!
Electric car manufacturer Fisker Automotive is in... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Updated: Cloud storage provider Box.net raising $35M at $550M valuation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Cloud storage provider Box.net has raised $19 million of a $35 million extension to its fourth round of funding, according to a filing ... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Updated: Cloud storage provider Box.net raising $35M at $550M valuation | Cloud storage provider Box.net has raised $19 million of a $35 million extension to its fourth round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie confirmed the round to V... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | Regulatory filing indicates Twitter raising $400M round | 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!
Twitter is raising $400 million in its seventh ro... |
| May 6, 2011 | Document shows Zynga may be raising $500M round | A new document shows that Zynga is raising a new round of funding up to $490 million, according to Inside Social Games.
The filing shows that Zynga, the largest social gaming firm on Facebook, has authorized a new series of Series C preferr... |
| May 6, 2011 | Document shows Zynga may be raising $500M round | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new document shows that Zynga is raising a new round of funding up to $490 million, according to Inside Social Games.
The filing show... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | LivingSocial raises $400M for $3B valuation | Now it needs to use that money to expand
Long ranked as the number two daily deal provider at best, and just another Groupon clone at worst, LivingSocial is taking aim at dominating the industry this year. The company has officially raised ... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | LivingSocial Files To Authorize Up To $565M In Series E [Update: And Raises $400M] | Reports of daily deals site LivingSocial being in talks to raise around $500 million in Series E are now backed up by LivingSocial’s amended and restated Certificate of Incorporation filed on March 31st and unearthed today by the VCExperts ... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | LivingSocial authorizes a $565M funding round | Group discount site LivingSocial has authorized the sale of shares to raise up to $565 million in its fifth round of funding, according to a state filing discovered by VCExperts.com.
Lots of small, local businesses have inventory they can a... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Is cloud gaming service OnLive really worth $1.8B? (poll) | OnLive’s $40 million in funding from HTC yesterday has everyone in the game business wondering what the company’s overall valuation might be.
One expert we asked came up with an estimate of $1.8 billion for the cloud gaming service startup.... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Is cloud gaming service OnLive really worth $1.8B? (poll) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OnLive’s $40 million in funding from HTC yesterday has everyone in the game business wondering what the company’s overall valuation mig... |
| Dec 30, 2010 | VentureBeat’s top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — at least for Silicon Valley startups in 2010. While many smaller, lesser known newbies languished as venture capital investments declined overall, those that did score, scored big, and h... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Groupon raising reported $950 million round | Series G round would help the most famous deal-of-the-day site expand internationally
[Update at 16:15 PST Tue Dec 28: Groupon creator and CEO Andrew Mason has confirmed via Twitter that the company is closing a new round, though details ha... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Groupon's Valuation Could Be As High As $7.8 Billion [Update: We Have The Document And The Actual Valuation] | photo © 2009 Chelsea Oakes | more info (via: Wylio)
Note: A source is now telling us that Groupon’s actual valuation is $4.75 Billion on a $950 Million Raise.
According to a VC Experts report, Groupon gave the State of Delaware a heads up o... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Groupon May Be Raising Almost $1b in Financing, 5X All Previous Investments Combined | Online coupon company Groupon may be raising, or may have already raised, up to $950 million more in venture capital, according to documents reported on today by venture blog VC Experts.
This would be the company’s Series G round of funding... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Groupon set to raise nearly $1B | Some investors are about to get a deal.
Groupon, the fast-growing Chicago startup that dominates the daily-deal category, has filed revised articles of incorporation that give it the right to issue $950 million in shares, according to VC Ex... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | How do you compensate key executives? | Using the 'carrot' approach
Since both startups and buyouts depend in large part on extraordinary performance by managers, one principal aim of the planners of new ventures is to put stock or stock equivalents in the hands of senior manager... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | How deal terms affect valuation & liquidity | Illustrating the impact certain terms have on portfolio company valuations & exits
Recently, entrepreneur-turned-venture-capitalist-and-blogger Mark Suster had an excellent post titled, "Want to Know How VC's Calculate Valuation Di... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Online game service OnLive’s latest filing points to $1.1 billion valuation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Online game company OnLive‘s latest valuation is an estimated $1.1 billion, after taking investments from new investors BT and the Belg... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Online game service OnLive’s latest filing points to $1.1 billion valuation | Online game company OnLive‘s latest valuation is an estimated $1.1 billion, after taking investments from new investors BT and the Belgacom Group this spring, according to a regulatory filing.
The valuation confirms that OnLive is one of th... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Ten tips to magnetize your business plan | Easing the process of raising capital
It is a rare entrepreneur who can raise money beyond the seed round without a well prepared, thoroughly researched business plan. It maps out the road to success. The business plan must convince investo... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | A look at FourSquare series B deal terms | Taking a behind-the-scenes look at the $115 million post-money financing
FourSquare Labs announced on their blog on Tuesday that it finally closed on its second round of financing. Many have been anticipating this, so this week we are going... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | What will VC's want for a security? | Common stock? Preferred stock? Debt? Warrants?
As one programs any financing, as in corporate finance generally, the objective is to make 2 + 2 = 5; that is to obtain added value for the issuer.
In the course of a financing, the insiders ar... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | VC Roundup: VCs that can kill and the carried interest tax moves along | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | With Softbank in the wings, Zynga could seek $25 million | Social gaming firm Zynga has authorized the issuance of new shares of preferred stock, according to a filing on April 22 with the State of Delaware, where Zynga is incorporated.
According to Zynga’s revised articles of incorporation, the co... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | With Softbank in the wings, Zynga could seek $25 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social gaming firm Zynga has authorized the issuance of new shares of preferred stock, according to a filing on April 22 with the State... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Boston Millennia’s Callow on the state of the VC industry | (Editor’s note: This is a truncated version of an interview that originally ran on VCExperts.com)
Dana Callow is the Managing Partner of Boston Millennia Partners. Prior to founding Boston Millennia Partners, Dana co-founded Boston Capital ... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | FACE’S BOOK VALUE | Facebook employees eager to cash in on the popular site by cashing out of their shares in the popular social-networking Web site will finally get their chance.
Instead of an initial public offering, the closely held company is giving employ... |
| Sep 15, 2008 | Shifting away from early rounds | Early-stage financings decline as percentage of deals; a quarter of deals are down rounds or flat
Cooley is one of the largest and most respected law firms in Silicon Valley. It recently released its Private Company Financings Report for Q1... |
| Aug 21, 2008 | Analysts: EDF Ventures’ deal terms aren’t that harsh | Updated
In the wake of EDF Ventures‘ subpoena demanding information about one of its critics on controversial VC-rating site TheFunded, more scathing commentary about the Ann Arbor, Michigan firm has come to light. For example, the commente... |
| May 23, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 16-22 May 2005 | sponsored by:
This week: Summary of Google Factory Tour, Recruitment 2.0, Rollups, Techie
post of the week, Web 1.0 Summit. Google Factory Tour
The Factory Tour and
accompanying webcast received tons of coverage this week, so I won’t re-has... |
| ZocDoc fresh capital raise follows move into employer wellness space | Only a few weeks after offering its online physician finder and scheduling platform to employer wellness programs, digital health company ZocDoc has raised $152 million, according to Fortune. It cited a document released by VC Experts, whic... |
| Former unicorn genetics startup Human Longevity loses its horn | San Diego, California-based Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) was founded in 2013 with the audacious mission of radically extending the human lifespan through better understanding of people’s genetic makeup.
Back then the promise created by lower ... |
