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Under The Hood: How Tiger Global Earned Its Stripes As The World’s Biggest Unicorn Hunter

From crunchbase Tiger Global Management, already one of the most voracious startup investors in recent years, is roaring into 2021 more aggressively than ever. The 20-year-old New York-based investing firm — part hedge fund, part private equity investor — has not only quietly become the most prolific investor in billion-dollar startups, it is also significantly[…]

Job Site Handshake Joins Unicorn Board With $80M Series E

from crunchbase San Francisco-based Handshake, a job service aimed at college students, announced its Series E funding of $80 million led by prior investors Spark Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners valuing the company at more than $1.5 billion. This funding comes within seven months of its Series D in October 2020. That round was also $80 million, valuing the company at[…]

The Briefing: Paymentus, Marqeta File For IPOs, AT&T Plans Spinoff, And More

From crunchbase news Paymentus files to raise up to $241.5M in IPO Bill payment platform Paymentus has filed to go public, seeking to raise up to $241.5 million, per its IPO prospectus. The Redmond, Washington-headquartered company posted revenue of $302 million in 2020, up 28 percent year over year, along with $13 million in net income.  Its largest[…]

Top 11 new US unicorns by post-money valuation

From Pitchbook National Unicorn Day was April 9, but “time” is a tricky concept in 2021—and we missed it. Even though Unicorn Day 2021 is in the rearview, the topic is always relevant and worth exploring. As a refresher, unicorn companies are privately held startups that are valued at more than $1 billion. As of March 2021[…]

Growth Firms, Not VCs, Are The Most Active Investors In New Unicorns This Year, And They’re Doubling Down

From Crunchbase News An unprecedented number of companies have joined Crunchbase’s private company unicorn board already this year: Less than halfway into 2021 there are 166 new companies, compared to 163 for the whole of 2020. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily Based on our analysis, New York-based private equity firm Tiger Global Management is the most active investor[…]

Venture Capital Funnel Shows Odds Of Becoming A Unicorn Are About 1%

From CB Insights: Anecdotally, it’s known that most startups fail. But looking at the data, we can see the hard truth in the numbers and better understand where in the funding lifecycle startups begin to lose traction. We followed a cohort of over 1,100 startups from the moment they raised their first seed investment to[…]

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Surviving The Unicorn ‘Winter’

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via Guerilla-Capitalism.com, The theme for today’s post is from Scott Galloway’s (@profgalloway on Twitter) “Casper Should Not Go Public” post on Medium, which he wrote in response to the news that Casper, a mattress company I had never heard of, had filed to go public, having lost $73.4 million on $250.9 million revenues in[…]

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Soft Bank Raises $108 Billion For Second Vision Fund

From Zero Hedge July, 2019: For a minute there, it looked like the investors who had helped finance Soft Bank’s original Vision Fund were finally beginning to question the strategy of paying exorbitant sums for stakes in Silicon Valley’s most popular unicorns. But, aside from a handful of embarrassing flops, the strategy appears to have[…]

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The Most Recent Startup Investments Over $250 Million In 2019

From Crunchbase January 23, 2019 2018 was the year supergiant VC deals became a nearly everyday occurrence. Equity funding rounds of $100 million or more dominated the global VC market, accounting for a vanishingly small percent of total deal volume, but accounting for 56 percent of the total dollar volume. Here’s the thing about these supergiant VC[…]

What is a Unicorn?

A unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion. The term was coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, choosing the mythical animal to represent the statistical rarity of such successful ventures.[1][2][3][4] A decacorn is a word used for those companies over $10 billion,[5] while hectocornis the appropriate term for such a company valued over $100 billion. According to TechCrunch, there were[…]