From CB Insights 2/4/2020: To get a sense of how coronavirus could impact startup financing in Asia, we analyzed how virus outbreaks have impacted private market funding in the past. Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the new coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Although the virus, which originated in[…]
12/1/2019 – (PreIPOSwap.com) – New York, NY — The WeWork fraud has given us all a moment to reconsider our policies on how to spot a fraud. Obviously, it wasn’t only Softbank that was tricked into thinking that WeWork was a strong, serious company. Industry professionals are not only beholden to rules, they are required[…]
(PreIPOSwap — 9/26/2019) New York, NY — We get asked often about fraud in Private Equity as it’s an Over the Counter (OTC) market and not exchange traded. Our answer is the classic answer – the majority of the risk lies in the underlying asset, i.e. the stock you’re buying, not the secondary market counterparty. […]
PreIPOSwap.com – 9/19/2019 — The world is becoming unstable, volatile, and scary. Being sustainable isn’t a do-gooder philosophy. The reason Ponzi schemes blow up is because they aren’t sustainable. Sustainable means solid, consistent, over the long term. So when someone uses the phrase, be aware of the connotations and varied interpretations on what sustainability really[…]
Pre IPO Swap 9/18/2019 – www.preiposwap.com — Meal delivery is a simple service that has been garnering a lot of attention from startups including but not limited to Home Chef, GrubHub, Swiggy, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Sun Basket, HelloFresh, and others. Uber Eats will actually bring McDonalds to your door. The world is changing so fast[…]
Pre IPO Swap New York, NY 9/12/2019 — Pre IPO Swap is launching a Series A for Blackwatch Digital so we are researching the Cybersecurity space in order to see what the trends have been. Using Crunchbase data, we did an export using filters and found 532 firms were founded since 2017, with a total[…]
From Crunchbase News July, 2019: Mobile banking platform MoneyLion has raised a $100 million Series C funding round. The amount is more than double the $42 million raised in a Series B just 18 months ago. MoneyLion would not go on the record about its valuation, but sources claim it’s “near unicorn status.” MoneyLion has now raised a total of $227.5[…]
PreIPOSwap.com (Crediblock.com – New York, NY 7/14/2019 ) — PreIPOSwap.com has launched a members area, where users can open an account to see more detailed information. Membership is completely free. Features of the members area are: Receive updates and content before published on our public site Research tools for members only Access to future development[…]
Pre IPO Swap 5/5/2019 – (New York, NY) — With Lyft, Uber, Pinterest and others going live, we’re now looking further down the line to companies that are still some time away. Today we’ve added Cabify and Go Jek both non-US offerings in a similar space. But when we say ‘similar’ it means exactly that[…]
Pre IPO Swap 3/18/2019 – New York, NY — Many investors are still asking for Uber and Lyft and unfortunately it’s too close to the date, they’re gone. Pinterest is still available, and is the only Unicorn that has filed the S1 and will likely go public. But there is also Palantir, ZocDoc, AirBnb, Hyperloop,[…]