Founders should evaluate investors’ financial health as carefully as their market thesis, writes guest author Marc Schröder, who emphasizes they should also prepare for acquisition-focused exits since venture-backed M&A far outweighs IPO activity in...
Liquidity
The threshold for going public has steadily risen, leaving many mid-sized firms and their shareholders without viable exit opportunities, writes...
Payments infrastructure giant Stripe announced Tuesday that it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and former employees...
Historically, many of the most transformative companies went public early and built the majority of their value under the discipline and funding of...
There's a a growing shift among high-growth startups of rewarding employees with liquidity long before an IPO is in sight. Crunchbase News recently...
Crunchbase News sat down with Sriram Viswanathan, founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, to discuss why the secondary market is accelerating...
Many tech startups that raised money at inflated valuations during the 2021 bubble are now struggling as market multiples contract and cash runs out...
The Crunchbase Unicorn Board crested $6 trillion in total value for the first time in August 2025, adding another half-trillion-plus in value, an...
Current market conditions have challenged the reliability of IPOs, forcing many companies to reevaluate their paths to public markets, writes guest...
We’re entering an era where the most transformative value could be created almost entirely within private markets, widening the wealth gap between...
As we enter Q4 2025, the long-awaited middle-market M&A boom many in the industry have forecasted has yet to materialize, writes guest author Michael...
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