While the IPO market remains unpredictable, global dealmaking across M&A and private capital investment is showing strong momentum. In this guest...
Public Markets
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Since 2023, 259 new unicorns have joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board, adding $605 billion in total value and altogether raising $130 billion...
Business payments platform Airwallex has announced that it closed on $300 million at a $6.2 billion valuation. The financing includes $150 million in...
Cybersecurity company Proofpoint announced that it plans to acquire Hornetsecurity, a security provider specialized in Microsoft 365 software tools...
The lack of a healthy exit market is an existential problem for the venture capital industry, writes guest author Dan Gray, who sees the evolving...
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Venture investor DFJ Growth announced it has raised $1.2 billion for a fifth flagship fund, its largest to date.
Despite what boosters may have envisioned amid a pandemic-era spike in migration to Florida a few years ago, the Sunshine State is not emerging as a...
If the current pace of exits persists, it would take 30 years for every U.S. company on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board to go public or be acquired...
Over the past few weeks, a new crop of blank-check companies have announced plans to merge with target companies in areas like crypto, autonomous...
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Over the past five years, private equity firms have spent more than $56 billion in disclosed-price acquisitions of private, venture-backed companies...
Guest author Rohit Yadav takes us on an exploration of the value chain — VC fundraising, startup fundraising and exits — to see how tariffs are...
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