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Where’s Funding Going In Former Soviet States? Not Russia.

From Crunchbase News: Joanna Glasner September 27, 2022 When the Soviet Union splintered into separate nations in the early 1990s, it contained exactly zero hubs for venture-backed tech startups. Three decades later, of course, the picture is quite different. Metro areas in multiple former Soviet countries now have a rich concentration of tech founders. Capital[…]

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S1 page company research and more updates from Pre IPO Swap

We haven’t done an update in some time at PreIPOSwap.com and wanted to inform our readers about some features we have added to our blog.  First, we have created a page that tracks S1 filings direct from the SEC, you can find that page here: https://preiposwap.com/s1/ For companies that are popular we maintain a research[…]

SellerX raises $118M to grow Amazon businesses

From Crunchbase News Berlin-based SellerX, a new startup that aims to consolidate and grow promising smaller businesses that sell via Amazon’s platform, has raised $118 million in what is reportedly being called a seed funding round. Cherry Ventures, Felix Capital and TriplePoint Capital led the financing, which the company reportedly plans to use to roll up smaller businesses using Fullfilment by Amazon for[…]

VCs Say Lessons From COVID-19 May Push Funding, Dealmaking Past Political Uncertainty

From Crunchbase News: While the nation awaits the results of the presidential election, lessons learned early in the year from the COVID-19 pandemic and the “new normal” it created could push the tech sector past any political uncertainty. “There is ‘scar tissue,’ if you will, from March, as it caused a lot of companies to[…]

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The Distribution Of Series A Deal Size In The US

From Crunchbase News February, 2020: You wouldn’t be wrong for believing that venture capital is just a big bowl of alphabet soup. GPs invest the money of LPs. Performance is measured by metrics like TVPI, DPI and IRR. In pitches, founders and their funders may talk up low CACs and high LTVs. And with the[…]

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Venture Capital news – food waste, ghost, hempster

From Crunchbase News October 25, 2019: Hello and welcome back to Last Week In Venture, the weekly rundown of deals which may have flown under your radar. There are plenty of companies operating outside the unicorn and public company spotlight, but their stories are worth sharing. In them, we find current trends and get a glimpse[…]

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Where Do Startups Live The Longest?

From Crunchbase News, September 13, 2019: A startup’s job is to move fast and make things. If it takes outside investment from venture capitalists, it’s also under the mandate to grow quickly and eventually find an exit. After all, they have investors to answer to. For VCs, eventual liquidity arrives through one of several routes.[…]

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CLASSIFIED: The most powerful investor you never heard of

Pre IPO Swap New York, NY 1/12/2019 Did you know that the CIA has its own Venture Fund?  And did you know that Venture fund was key in starting Facebook and Google?  As explained in the book Splitting Pennies – the world is not as it seems. For many readers especially on Zero Hedge this comes as[…]