Sentences with phrase «public capital raises»

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Failing to hit its projections in its first few quarters as a public company would trigger shareholder lawsuits and cripple Spotify's ability to raise further capital, said Steve London, a partner in the securities practice of law firm Pepper Hamilton.

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.

Direct Public Offerings DPOs have existed for decades as a way for small businesses to raise capital from wealthy individuals.

Impinj went public last July so it could raise capital to «turbocharge our efforts» and accelerate its already rapid growth, Diorio says.

Through the end of March, 64 companies went public raising nearly $ 11 billion, according to new research from IPO advisor and research company Renaissance Capital.

Prior to going public, GrubHub had raised about $ 84 million from venture and private equity firms including Warburg Pincus Private Equity, GS Capital Partners, and Benchmark Capital Partners.

The company recently raised US$ 42 million from venture capital firms Atomico Ventures and Accel Partners, and its CEO is now contemplating taking the company public within the next few years.

He considered going public to raise capital, but rejected the idea because he didn't want the kind of growth he would have to pursue if he took on investors.

Should listings become scarce, their valuations would climb, lowering the cost of capital raised on equity markets and attracting more companies back into the public sphere.

«Our goal is not only to support our listed companies doing business in the region, but to enable companies that are interested in raising capital in Canada to learn best practices about the going public process.»

With presentations from five private companies and five public companies in the technology sector, this event attracts Canadian and U.S. investors with the goal of raising institutional and VC investment dollars, and enhancing the capital ecosystem for technology companies in Canada.

A raft of other promising technology compatriots could quickly join them in a revival of public capital - raising.

He has also expressed some regret that he had to take Tesla public in order to raise capital to build the company, noting in an interview with Rolling Stone, «I wish we could be private with Tesla... It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.»

Title IV, or «Regulation A +,» holds even more excitement for some, given that it will allow a small or emerging business to raise up to $ 50,000,000 in capital from «the crowd» through a relatively inexpensive form of a public offering.

raise late - stage venture and other private capital on equal or better terms than in the public markets — and with less hassle.

The token sale is a capital - raising scheme employed by blockchain companies that entails creating a digital asset and selling it to the public.

Private companies now have an unprecedented ability to raise late - stage venture and other private capital to finance their innovation and investment, often on equal or better terms than in the public markets and with less hassle.

But while the systematic patterns of public policy don't always matter in the development of the Internet, Guillà © n and Suà ¡ rez discover that conditions for entrepreneurship, such as the ability to raise capital and whether or not the environment is risk - free, do have a consistent effect.

The Capital Pool Company (CPC) program is a unique financing vehicle offered by TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) that enables early - stage companies to raise funds from public equity investors.

That includes things like working on initial public offerings and equity capital fund - raisings for listed companies.

The growth of the venture capital industry — VCs raised $ 28.5 billion last year, up from $ 3.8 billion in 2002 — coupled with a tepid market for initial public offerings has made the competition among VCs for good deals more intense than ever.

It has raised a total of $ 8 billion in venture capital, most recently at a valuation of $ 62.5 billion — about $ 10 billion more than Ford Motor's public market value.

«When we think about why companies go public, they do it for liquidity, to raise their profile, for capital,» John Tuttle, head of global listings at NYSE, told Business Insider.

Add to that a lack of regulation: After the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012, which aimed to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital, startups could take on many more investors before the Securities and Exchange Commission effectively forced them to go public.

The REIT structure allows Simon Property Group and other landlords to raise capital on public markets, making them less reliant on bank loans.

The startup could be worth $ 50 billion, the analysts calculated, and will eventually need to go public to raise adequate capital (although the company said in May it had no current plans for an IPO).

«If you're thinking about raising capital or going public, then it helps to have a Big Six auditor.

But when a major contraction occurs in any capital arena — be it private equity, public equity, or banking — it inevitably has a spillover effect in the other financing markets, damaging the money - raising prospects of almost everyone.

Other specific drives he delineated to invigorate small businesses: Make it easier for small businesses to obtain — and get paid for — federal contracts, and facilitate start - up capital - raising and initial public offerings by eliminating red tape that can get in the way.

In venture capital, a «zombie» is a start - up that raises money but fails to attract a buyer or grow big enough to go public, leaving backers without hope for a return on their investment.

The company has raised $ 27 million in early stage financing from two leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, and launched its service to the public in September 2011.

David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, Calif., told me in an e-mail: «For garage - dwelling entrepreneurs to crack the 1 % wealth threshold in America, their path almost always involves raising venture capital and then getting their start - up to an initial public offering (IPO) or a large acquisition by another company.

In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Tesla.

Spotify, which wants to trade as SPOT on the New York Stock Exchange, is taking an unusual path to the U.S. public markets, with a direct listing that will let investors and employees sell shares without the company raising new capital or hiring a Wall Street bank or broker to underwrite the offering.

«By allowing investors and their financial advisers to efficiently learn about our REITs and invest directly, there is less cost involved in raising equity capital than there would be through more traditional public distribution formats,» said Amy Tait, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Broadstone, in a statement.

The changes to the Canadian securities laws if adopted would allow the general public to invest in equity crowdfunding online, and companies to offer small amounts of equity with less disclosure thus driving the cost of raising capital lower and widening participation at the same time.

The JOBS Act has facilitated a substantial reduction in the regulatory burden surrounding financing activities for small companies in public and private capital raising transactions.

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Vododara - based waste paper collection and recycling startup Sort India Enviro Solutions Ltd, which operates under the brand Pastiwala, had raised $ 4 million (approximately Rs 25 crore) from Agnus Capital, a private investment arm of the promoters of public listed drug maker Strides Arcolab.

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The public stock markets are increasingly about capital return rather than capital raising.

The firm has raised 21 institutional funds totaling more than $ 37 billion and currently manages capital on behalf of more than 350 domestic and international investors including public and private pension funds, insurance companies and university endowments and foundations.

«Closed - End Fund» — A traditional closed - end fund is a publicly traded investment company that raises a fixed amount of capital, only one time, through an initial public offering (IPO).

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.

The influx of capital has helped startups stay private longer with money that in past eras would have been raised on the public markets.

And when I speak on this topic in public I like to remind people that, «when I raised capital there were no easy ways to figure out who were the friends of the VC's (let alone who the VC's were in the first place) but in 2009 you have alll the social networking tools: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or even just plain old Google Search.

Liquidity gives investors access to investment opportunities, reduces volatility and lowers the cost of capital raising for public companies.

Nevertheless, sales of substantial amounts of our Class A common stock, including shares issued upon exercise of outstanding stock options or warrants or settlement of RSUs, in the public market following this offering could adversely affect market prices prevailing from time to time and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of our equity securities.

In addition to serving as the Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to the Tesla Roadster's engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of the Company.

Our team has been involved in virtually every phase of corporate finance at every stage of a company's life cycle, including raising venture capital for early stage companies, raising growth capital for later stage companies, taking companies public, managing secondary offerings, and arranging mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and leveraged acquisitions.