From Forbes: Only a handful of early stage investors have the distinction of writing seed checks to Unicorns. When such investors do this repeatedly, we are intrigued about their investment process. It’s even more intriguing if the investor is an emerging manager and virtually unknown. Robinhood has recently made big headlines by reaching a $5.6B valuation in[…]
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Christopher Bloomstran compiled detailed of Robinhood in a lengthy series of Tweets that every would be Robinhood investor ought to read. Warning to Robinhood Investors I don’t follow Robinhood other than reporting the numerous problems it has had with account theft and customer service. However I know a good[…]
From Zero Hedge: As was reported previously, Robinhood Markets – which is rushing to preempt any more fiascos and market crashes and go public as quickly as possible – has filed for an Initial Public Offering listing on the Nasdaq with the ticker HOOD (S1 filing here) and will use Goldman, Citi, JPMorgan and Barclays;[…]
From pitchbook Robinhood has started to allow traders on its platform to buy shares of companies in an IPO. The online brokerage will offer shares that have been allocated to it by underwriters, and it won’t have access to all IPOs. Traders who submit requests to purchase a stock may be given access subject to the[…]
From Zero Hedge: Well, we might finally have an answer as to why Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev was so eager to go on a non-stop PR tour over the last few weeks – one that included everything from testifying in front of congress to appears with Dave Portnoy on Barstool Sports. Because despite all of[…]
From Pitchbook: Meyer “Micky” Malka, founder and managing partner of venture firm Ribbit Capital, once said his firm had a “boring” strategy of driving financial innovation across banking, brokerages and insurance. But things have gotten decidedly less boring in recent days for Ribbit. The Palo Alto-based firm stepped up to lead $3.4 billion in emergency funding[…]
From Tech Crunch After a turbulent week for the stock market and halts to the trading of certain speculative securities including GameStop (GME) and AMC, consumer investing app Robinhood has raised new capital. The new funds total more than $1 billion, with the company telling TechCrunch that they were raised from its existing investor base. The New[…]