His experience includes advising numerous real estate investment companies
on capital raising, M&A, initial public offerings, strategic planning, marketing and investor relations.
Prior to joining the firm, Alex was an analyst at Credit Suisse in the Private Fund Group where he focused
on capital raising initiatives for real estate private equity funds.
«A number of new products that were added in 2011 came out fairly late in the year, and as a result, they didn't have as much of an impact
on capital raising,» he explains.
At his former companies Cohen & Company (NYSE: COHN), Hexagon Securities, and UBS, he focused
on capital raising, deal origination, and institutional sales.
In the banking sector, Credit Suisse said Tuesday it will make a decision
on capital raising plans «as soon as possible,» Reuters reported.
Taken together, the track record of the firm's investment team includes 11 IPOs, 29 successful acquisitions, multiple billions in public market cap, and over 500 rounds in follow -
on capital raised for portfolio companies.
Asset Management Equity Financing and Placement Debt Financing and Placement Mergers and Acquisitions Corporate Partnering and Strategic Alliances Restructuring and Workouts Startups and Management Alternative Finance Strategies Advice on Capital Markets Corporate Shareholder Communications Access to Retail, Institutional, and Accredited Investors Database Strategic Introductions to Global Network ConnectInvest - one - on - one Meetings with Global Investors Advice and Introductions
on Capital Raises Media and Press Release Distribution Event Creation and Management Representation in Trade Shows and Conferences for Media Exposure
Gouw and Fonstad have together created $ 10 billion in public market value, helped lead 15 M&A transactions and over 300 rounds in follow -
on capital raised for their portfolio companies.
The new firm will allow Fonstad and Gouw, whose successes include helping to create over $ 10 billion in public market value, 15 M&A transactions and over 300 rounds in follow -
on capital raised for their portfolio companies, to combine their extensive experience and sector expertise to address an emerging opportunity in the venture market today.
Once trading takes place in the secondary market (the stock exchange) the trades have no impact
on the capital raised and held by the company during the initial public offering (IPO).
For EB - 5 deals marketed through these agents, developers can expect to pay a fixed rate of interest, or preferred return
on capital raised, of 5 - 8 percent annually over the five - year expected life of the investment.
TSB Capital Advisors also consulted
on the capital raise for the acquisition of The Courtyards, a 182 - unit and 676 - bed student housing complex in close proximity to the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Not exact matches
Globalive invested seed
capital into Revlo last year, and the startup is
raising a follow -
on round.
As power is consolidating in the VC industry, with fewer firms getting a greater share of LP funding, VC firms are beginning to realize the power that branding and marketing can have
on dealflow and their ability to
raise capital.
I felt that we had generally
raised based
on what we have done,» she says, while male founders
raise capital on what they have the potential to do.
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.
According to Ed Quattlebaum, founding partner at Polaris - Crux Group, a strategic advisement firm that focuses
on helping early - stage innovation companies with
capital raising and commercial scaling, one of the most effective strategies to better position you and your startup during negotiation is to acknowledge and address one anxiety that all investors loathe: risk.
While Luckey initially
raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding campaign
on Kickstarter, his company hit its stride in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»] announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.
The second reason Carney is holding off
on raising interest rates is fear they would increase foreign
capital inflows, which would further drive up the Canadian dollar and correspondingly dampen manufacturing exports.
This setup allows you to maintain a pristine
capital structure in case you plan
on raising private equity at a later date.
When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women
raise 50 % less
capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses
on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often,
capital means success.»
Sometimes the focus is too much
on raising capital and announcing some big round, but ultimately, it's about building a durable business.
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.
Bain
Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners ended up
raising the buyout offer, and in July, 2008, at the apex of the LBO boom, and just weeks before the Financial Crisis began to muddy up the news
on Clear Channel radio stations, the majority of shareholders accepted the offer.
This year, the sector is
on track to
raise $ 2 billion in funding, with average deal sizes higher than ever, suggesting companies, at least in more instances, are attracting the
capital they need to not just innovate, but scale.
A number of those investments have gone
on to
raise capital at higher valuations, according to Forbes.
The deal gives the FriendFeed founders — and their investor, Benchmark
Capital — a nice exit since the company had only
raised $ 5 million and a chance to cash in
on Facebook, which TechCrunch thinks is primed for an IPO.
• YI
Capital, a Beijing - based early - stage venture fund focused
on China's internet - tech companies,
raised $ 116 million for its debut fund.
His project grew through word of mouth until it grew so big, he moved the company to San Francisco and started taking
on venture
capital investments, eventually
raising $ 259 million at a valuation of $ 1.5 billion.
Banks want it because it helps them sell off mortgages
on their balance sheet to
raise capital.
The company has
raised more than $ 230 million in venture
capital since its founding, from investors such as Sigma West and Ignition Partners, and is using that money to rapidly expand its business outside the U.S.. It's well
on its way: DocuSign is available in 43 languages.
And though other entrepreneurs are running
on fumes, Surace in September closed a $ 60 million round of financing, doubling total
raised capital to $ 120 million.
Term Sheet typically focuses
on one very specific kind of entrepreneurial success study: The kind where startup founders
raise giant piles of venture
capital to fuel hypergrowth, and then ride said hypergrowth to an IPO or sale.
Lots of positive feedback
on this column, but the most common criticism went something like, «Actually, you're not including startups that failed before they could
raise venture
capital!
Always the riskiest level
on the funding food chain, venture
capital experienced its own mini-boom, as fund -
raising became easier and more ideas and innovation could be supported at startups.
• Dominic Murphy is planning to
raise 1 billion euros ($ 1.2 billion), for 8C
Capital, a new private equity fund, which will focus
on deals in the healthcare and consumer industries, according to Read more.
Currently, the Ministry of Finance is working
on new rules that might make it more expensive for banks to
raise capital.
So when I had to terminate all employees, and ask 12 of them to volunteer their time for three months (
on the hopes of me
raising a new round of
capital and getting their volunteered back - pay funded), that was a monumental ask.
Explaining the industry and what's going
on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of
raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture
capital as the preferred destination.
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.
So if you find yourself forced to cut back
on your compensation — or even to cash in some of your family's outside investments to
raise capital for your venture — you'll need to delay diversification until conditions stabilize.
The formula has been consistent across these deals using the new normal outlined above; all eight companies
raised one comma, typically non-dilutive
capital, executed well and
raised follow
on two comma
capital.
Attila Szigeti, COO of Drukka Startup Studio, recently crunched the numbers
on 42 of the biggest and best companies to emerge from startup studios and accelerators: He discovered that startups that had partnered with accelerators
raised more
capital and employed more people than their studio brethren.
His company went
on to
raise more than $ 60 million in venture
capital.
She'd also
raise capital gains rates
on profits stemming from short - term trading and she'd limit the ability of the super wealthy to avail themselves of tax advantage retirement programs.
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.
Davenport Resources has launched a $ 5 million
capital raising to support its plans to acquire a potash project majority owned by West Perth - based Potash West and list
on the ASX.
Shares in VDM Group were up 125 per cent
on news it had attracted a new cornerstone investor for an $ 18 million
capital raising, highlighting the company's planned shift from construction to mining.
Slack's $ 2.8 billion valuation, attained when it
raised $ 160 million from Social
Capital and other top - shelf venture capital firms last May, puts it on the list of Silicon Valley un
Capital and other top - shelf venture
capital firms last May, puts it on the list of Silicon Valley un
capital firms last May, puts it
on the list of Silicon Valley unicorns.
The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing
on the ASX this year has hit 10, with Dreamscape Networks due to list in coming days after
raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its
capital raising this week.