The record amounts of
capital raised by the REIT industry have been used to acquire properties, buy large portfolios of properties, take over other REITs or, in some cases, absorb real estate operating companies.
Public equity offerings were primarily responsible for a significant increase in
capital raised by REITs in the first seven months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016.
Capital raised by healthcare REITs through the first half of 2012 set a record at more than $ 7.5 billion, according to Jones Lang LaSalle, with much of that investment going for seniors housing portfolio acquisitions.
According to TokenReporter, January was a record month for
capital raised by ICOs at $ 1.51 billion.
That said, the overall
capital raised by fintech - related ventures has increased in the same period.
Venture
capital raised by bitcoin startups in 2014 has already surpassed last year's figure by over $ 27m.
Last year was a digital gold rush for ICOs, as crypto offerings raised over $ 3.8 billion, doubling the amount of venture
capital raised by traditional internet companies.
In addition,
the capital raised by VietJet in the offer will help support expansion of its international routes and the enlargement of its fleet, which are critical for VietJet to compete in the Asian aviation market — one of the fastest growing and dynamic aviation markets in the world.»
However, some venture capitalists have begun to invest exclusively in seed stage startups where often the only previous
capital raised by the startup is that raised from the founding team's family and friends.
The funding is the first external
capital raised by the firm and will be used for growing its team more rapidly, expanding internationally and launching additional products for its members and partners.
An obvious consequence of this increased supply is that company valuations (i.e. prices) have gone up, and so has the amount of
capital raised by most companies.
The scatter plot below charts the amount of venture and debt
capital raised by companies on a logarithmic scale, and their corresponding valuations at the time of the IPO or acquisition.
We also take a look at the influential groups and dealmakers who didn't make it onto this year's list; explore the growth of
capital raised by tech - focused firms; plus much more.
In the first three months of 2016, Kansas City has boosted its total
capital raised by about 297 percent when compared to the same time period in 2015,
With such an inordinate amount of dry powder, the spending of
capital raised by Vision Fund will almost inevitably involve Cayman Islands structures.
Equity Capital - Equity capital is
capital raised by its owners through personal investing in their own company..
The overall sums of private
capital raised by today's tech startups over longer periods of time are indicators of industry health.
The new round brings the total
capital raised by the eight - year - old company to $ 250 million, but Tzuo declined to discuss the valuation.
Pilbara Minerals has announced the biggest
capital raising by a Western Australian company for 2016, which it will use to fund development of its Pilgangoora lithium project, while also announcing it will put its new Tabba Tabba plant on ice.
Vocus Upstart co-founders Anthony Grist and Robert Nathan have participated in a $ 300,000
capital raising by Perth - based startup GeoMoby.
Not only will Sokoni provide a marketplace for buyers and sellers, it will enhance the speed and efficiency of asset sales and
capital raises by using technology to facilitate the work of those looking to finance African infrastructure assets, as well as potential donors and global capital providers interested in investing in Africa.
The SEC was tasked with adopting rules to implement these provisions, which are intended to facilitate
capital raising by small businesses while providing significant investor protections.
BCSC National Instrument 45 - 106 Proposed Prospectus Exemption to Assist
Capital Raising by Small Businesses February 2013
Not exact matches
The startup, founded
by Penina First,
raised $ 2.5 million from Benchmark
Capital.
Created
by Walter Luh, a serial entrepreneur and formerly the lead architect of the Adobe Flash Lite engineering team, Corona Labs has
raised $ 2.5 million in seed investment, mostly from Merus
Capital.
Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the company at $ 115 million, including the new funds
raised, according to data provided
by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture
capital deals.
Launched in 2013, Cohesity has already
raised $ 70 million in just two rounds, with a $ 350 million valuation, backed
by A-list venture -
capital firms Sequoia, Qualcomm Ventures, and others, according to PitchBook.
Lacavera's fund will focus on Series A investments, the term given to the
capital raise that follows an initial seed round, and will help bridge the funding gap in Canada
by being faster, more flexible and willing to take on bigger risks.
• Elsen, a Boston - based platform - as - a-service company for large financial institutions,
raised $ 2.4 million in a seed extension round led
by Hyperplane Venture
Capital and was joined
by investors including Accomplice and Launch
Capital.
• Nubank, a Brazil - based financial startup,
raised $ 150 million in funding.DST Global Investment Partners led the round, and was joined
by investors including Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit
Capital LP and QED.
Last summer the company
raised $ 4 million in an early funding round led
by First Round
Capital and RRE Ventures.
Manbang, which is backed
by Tencent and Jack Ma's private equity firm, hopes to
raise between $ 500 million and $ 1 billion in
capital to help it expand in China's growing logistics market.
This morning, Intangible Labs, the startup behind a project formerly known as Basecoin, said it
raised $ 133 million in a new fundraising round led
by Bain
Capital Ventures.
• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo. - based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the «as a service» model,
raised $ 1.4 million in a seed round led
by Speedinvest and was joined
by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider
Capital.
• Wonolo, a San Francisco - based staffing platform enabling businesses to fill their immediate labor needs,
raised $ 13 million in a Series B funding round led
by Sequoia
Capital.
The company says it plans
by 2020 to
raise annual spending on what it calls «new energies» to between $ 1 billion and $ 2 billion — a sum that, assuming it materialized, would account for between 4 % and 8 % of the $ 25 billion that Shell has estimated as its total
capital spending in 2017.
«He wasn't desperately trying to
raise capital, he was trying to do right
by his employees,» Cramer said.
By that, I mean the point at which we'll be able to
raise the outside
capital needed to accelerate our growth.
By the end of the year, he and Raider had also gotten their seed backer, Thrive
Capital, along with five other investors, to help
raise $ 122.5 million, including $ 35 million in debt.
• Rentalutions, a Chicago - based online platform for renters,
raised $ 2 million in financing led
by Cultivation
Capital with participation from M25 Group and Sandalphon
Capital.
• Engineering for the Petroleum & Process Industries, Egypt's state - owned oil company, has picked a consortium led
by CI
Capital as lead managers and bookrunners for an IPO that could
raise about $ 150 million, Bloomberg reports.
Instead,
raising money
by using a self - directed IRA is the opposite; it involves putting your company's stock into a retirement plan to protect its
capital gains.
But First Nations communities have always been hampered
by the need to
raise capital — reserve land can't be mortgaged.
Raider managed to
raise $ 4 million in seed funding led
by New York venture firm Thrive
Capital.
• Costello, an Indianapolis - based deal management platform,
raised $ 1 million in funding led
by Dundee Venture
Capital with participation from Elevate Ventures, M25 Group, and Service Provider
Capital.
Russ Koesterich, BlackRock, and Dorothy Weaver, Collins
Capital, weigh in on the market's reaction to the Fed's decision to
raise rates
by 25 basis points.
Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture
Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public,
raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase
by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.
• ProPetro Holding, a Midland, Texas - based oilfield services company backed
by Energy
Capital Partners,
raised $ 350 million in an IPO
by offering 25 million shares at $ 14 per share, below its expected range of $ 16 to $ 19.
The company has
raised more than $ 20 million in venture
capital, led
by Third Point Ventures, with participation from NEA and Khosla Ventures.
Of the roughly $ 25 billion in venture
capital raised in 2006, only about $ 5 billion went to businesses under development or just beginning operation, according to separate surveys
by Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) and PricewaterhouseCoopers.