Sentences with phrase «at the financing rounds»

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Despite all that, short - term profitability isn't why Axel Springer would be interested in buying Business Insider (a company in which it already has a small stake, since it participated in the financing round earlier this year that valued the company at $ 200 million).

Cloud file - sharing service Dropbox recently raised at least $ 350 million in a financing round that valued the company at a whopping $ 10 Billion.

The company — which doesn't release its exact finances, but reportedly has an annual revenue run rate near $ 1 billion — is said to be raising a new round of funding that would value it at more than $ 5 billion.

«No one's ever really done this at scale,» says Rasch, who heads Hedgewood and led the recent financing round.

When Facebook took on its first round of financing in 2005, for $ 13 million, Parker pushed for a high valuation of the company»» about $ 100 million at the time.

«They likely knew they were coming below their last private round, based on the price at which they marketed the IPO,» says David Erickson, a senior fellow and lecturer in the finance department at Wharton, and a former operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

At the time, Yext had closed a $ 50 million round of financing that valued the startup at $ 525 millioAt the time, Yext had closed a $ 50 million round of financing that valued the startup at $ 525 millioat $ 525 million.

Snapchat, the mobile chat application that swatted away a $ 3 billion offer from Facebook, is reportedly in negotiations with Alibaba for a financing round that would value the company at $ 10 billion.

Nutanix, which builds server and storage systems for companies, was valued at $ 2 billion at its last private financing round in August 2014.

WeWork, which is said to be raising a new round of financing at a valuation of more than $ 20 billion, has grown its offerings over the last year.

As we reported last week, Square filed a document with state regulators in Alaska saying Dorsey owned 28 percent of the company, which was valued at $ 1.6 billion in its last financing round.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

(They didn't look at A rounds that were funded in 2012 or later, since those companies might not be ready for another round of financing quite yet.)

The company raised $ 180 million in its third round of financing that valued Qualtrics at $ 2.5 billion, 250 % more than that offer.

The latest round of financing values Uber at around $ 17 billion.

This week, after closing a $ 200 million round of financing, the San Francisco - based company is reportedly valued at $ 3.25 billion.

Nine - year - old SoundCloud previously raised $ 123 million in equity financing, with its last round in 2013 valuing the company at $ 700 million.

There are currently 25 companies in the tech IPO pipeline that are raising or have raised a financing round at a valuation of $ 1 billion or more, according to the data.

She also says funding isn't a problem, at least in the near term; the company raised $ 13.4 million in a round of financing in 2007 — the Australian government chipped in, along with three venture capital firms.

The company, which started as a free music - and - culture magazine in Montreal in 1994, is now a behemoth: According to remarks made by CEO Shane Smith at the so - called «NewFronts» for advertisers, Vice will have revenues of $ 1 billion this year, and a recent financing round valued the company at $ 2.5 billion.

Valuation is on everyone's mind because, at noon today, the Guru.com team will meet with Greylock, one of six venture firms that the start - up has targeted for its second round of financing.

On this late September day, there are two tasks at the top of the company's to - do list: raise a second round of financing and launch Guru.com's premier product — a job - matching service designed for independent professionals.

The round comes shortly after WeWork raised $ 760 million (# 579 million) in financing earlier this month, which valued the firm at $ 20 billion (# 15.2 billion).

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

That price range was already a drop from the valuation investors gave Square during its most recent private round of financing, when Square raised $ 150 million at $ 15.50 per share, or at a valuation of $ 6 billion, in October 2014.

Penney, looking to steady its finances after reporting a loss of $ 116 million in its last fiscal year, also announced it was eliminating 130 positions at its headquarters in Plano, Texas, just the latest round of layoffs in recent years, as well as cutting 230 jobs at the store and regional level.

For the first time, perhaps in their lives, these entrepreneurs may face a situation where they can not raise a clean incremental financing at a flat to up round.

Of the U.S. - based companies that received a round of venture capital financing in 2010, only 6 percent had a female CEO, 7 percent had a female founder, and 10 percent had a female founder or CEO at some point, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.

If somebody gives you money under a convertible debt note at a $ 2.5 m valuation and another person funds you with convertible debt at $ 5m valuation (high resolution financing) and your equity round finally closes at a $ 10 million valuation... what technically happens?

Snapchat Inc., the company that makes a mobile application for disappearing photo messages, is in talks with investors including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for a round of financing that may value the company at $ 10 billion, people with knowledge of the situation said.

ROI / Exit: Investors my exit at either the second round financing with a 2 - 3x expected ROI or they may elect to take a percentage of profits on a monthly basis beginning 90 days after investment.

I'm 29 and was working in corporate finance at a top tech company until I decided to take a break from the rat race to do a round the world trip.

According to separate media reports earlier in February this year, Uber had expanded its Series E round by $ 1 billion just weeks after the company closed a $ 1.2 billion round of financing, increasing total capacity for the round at $ 2.8 billion.

To compensate convertible note holders for the additional risk assumed with investing at an early stage, most convertible notes feature a conversion price below that of the subsequent financing round through the use of a valuation cap or a discount on the purchase price.

Its last round of financing valued the company at $ 62.5 billion.

BEIJING / SHANGHAI (Reuters)- Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco's sports unit said it completed a new round of funding that valued it at 24 billion yuan ($ 3.50 billion) and that its investors will form a new committee to supervise its finances.

The company was valued at around $ 200 million just last April, according to PitchBook, meaning this would be the company's second round of financing in just a year.

The financing round would value Airbnb at $ 24 billion, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Allos Ventures invests in early - stage companies, augmenting the capital provided by angel investors who have helped the companies reach a stage at which they are ready for their first institutional financing round.

But the talks are another reflection of how Silicon Valley start - ups have been raising money at a furious pace, often snagging tens of millions of dollars and more than doubling their value just months after a previous financing round.

The convertible notes payable were convertible at the election of the note holder into either the securities issuable in a subsequent round of financing at the per share price of such financing, or into Series D convertible preferred stock at a per share price of $ 2.44.

For more on today's big stock movers check out the Final Round, live at 3:55 p.m. ET, right here on Yahoo Finance.

Earn encountered some pushback from its investors at that sale price because that's a sharp decrease from its last round of private financing in 2015 — $ 310 million before the new cash, according to PitchBook — though later investors will as usual be paid out first.

Not surprisingly, «unlike Square's previous financing rounds, which prominently featured big venture capital names like Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,» its most recent round was not led by a traditional Silicon Valley backer, The New York Times reported at the time.

Even less likely to sell at the proposed valuation is Lowercase, the fund steered by early Uber investor Chris Sacca, which joined Benchmark's financing round in 2011.

At early - stage rounds of financing, legal documents for an investment, contracts for a strategic business partnership, and merger or acquisition agreements contain representations and warranties with respect to intellectual property assets from the new business and often from founding entrepreneurs.

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Remmember that it's best to explicitly define what the fundraising milestone strategy is during the seed stage Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing.

In December, Uber closed a $ 1.2 billion round of financing that valued it at $ 40 billion.

The mobile car - hailing application is in early talks to raise a new round of financing that could value the start - up at $ 50 billion, according to a person familiar with the discussions, who spoke anonymously because the process is confidential.