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When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues

TechCrunch

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. The crisis of 2002: The dot-com bubble. Natalia Holgado Sanchez. Contributor. It’s usually a version of: “Will my equity ever be worth something?”.

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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tomasz Tunguz

It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. Just as important, though, Amazon managed their finances well. A remarkable accomplishment in the most unforgiving capital markets environment the company had seen. But he might have written it today. before falling to $0.298.

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Foreign investors, mature startups redraw New Zealand’s VC funding landscape

TechCrunch

A noticeable trend is that deal sizes are getting larger as early-stage ventures and angel-backed ventures scale and require larger quantums of growth capital.”. This boost in access to capital can be attributed to a few things. Note: All monetary amounts are listed in New Zealand dollars unless otherwise stipulated. .

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How Venture Funding For Early-Stage Startups Will Change During the COVID-19 Crisis

Dream It

Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital. During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital?

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The Financing Trends of Billion Dollar SaaS Companies

Tomasz Tunguz

One of the cloud’s great promise has been cost-reduction and for a while, we’ve chanted a mantra that startups require less capital than before to get started and ultimately succeed. I’ve gathered the financing histories of the 41 publicly traded SaaS companies and adjusted them for inflation. 2002 71 3.0

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ.

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African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B

TechCrunch

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. .

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