TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The Equity crew this week chewed through a trio of media stories , each dealing with private companies and their successes. So this weekend let’s pause for a minute to ruminate on the upstart media world, a place where too often private capital and media economics have had a falling out. Natasha Mascarenhas.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Not all alts can be described as passion investments; I doubt anyone feels very passionate about private equity funds or debt , for instance. .” The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Klarna got repriced via an equity round, and other richly funded startups that raised last year are staring down the prospects of either flat or down rounds as 2022 continues. investing house, which mostly focuses on publicly traded equities, owns some Discord stock in its Contrafund, giving us regular looks at how Fidelity values it.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about Clubhouse, the latest in tech layoffs and why $1 billion in capital can’t save AV tech. If you like this newsletter, do me a quick favor?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. That TechCrunch is in the process of being sold to private equity, of course, is not something that we should forget. The company will sport an equity valuation of $830 million after the deal closes, per its own calculations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we very quickly sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Rather than turn this entire newsletter into one big list of Apple things, I’ll just say: new iPhones , new AirPods , and a beefy new Apple Watch. Happy Saturday, friends. Get it here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Frankly, given how limited my knowledge of the storage-focused software company was before reading its IPO filing, I was almost ready to stick it in The Exchange newsletter for the weekend. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. million in outside equity since our founding in 2007.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2022

If you missed last week’s newsletter, read it here: “Welcome to spooky season in startups.”. In today’s newsletter, I’ll talk to you about Liquid Death and crypto advertising. If you like this newsletter, do me a quick favor? As you know, I co-host Equity, which goes out thrice a week and is TC’s longest-running podcast.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

billion, including a $160 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) component. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The former startup is merging with Switchback II Corporation in a deal that values it at around $2.3 The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. As a private company, GitLab raised huge sums of capital — more than $400 million, per Crunchbase data. of that equity class. of that equity class. of that equity class. of that equity class. But that’s tomorrow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Some private companies that raised large sums of capital last year have struggled to hold onto their valuation — or even their business — in the ensuing quarters. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. That Stripe raised in early 2021 is notable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Now, Instacart is undergoing something similar-ish , albeit on the private markets. Should we expect more private companies to also shake up how they value their share price to better incent new hires to join and current employees to stay?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Any time a private company scales its private-market valuation to the range of dozens of billions, it’s hard to ignore. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. To the moon. The recent fundraise by FTX drew a host of headlines.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Richly valued private companies that might have targeted IPOs have pulled back on plans and the rate of new S-1 filings is de minimis. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Forge operates a market for private shares — equity in unicorn startups, basically.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

CoinDesk reported yesterday that crypto trading startup Coinbase is being valued at $77 billion on private exchanges. And Forbes reported that Stripe is being valued at $115 billion on secondary markets, where private shares can be bought and sold, albeit in a limited fashion. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Our basis for that perspective is that technology valuations for public companies remain far above historical norms and the backlog of yet-private unicorns is at an all-time high. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have work to do.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

That in mind, we’re briefly going to dig into SailPoint’s huge private equity buyout to divine what the transaction says about the value of technology companies. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Equity drops every Monday at 7:00 a.m. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here. This morning we’re focused on the impending earnings deluge. More to come on the IPO front.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Amplitude debut is notable for its status as a direct listing that follows a large private-market fundraising. The company is pursuing a liquidity model that both leverages ample private fundraising and dodges pricing issues present in traditional IPOs that have irked many in the Silicon Valley chattering classes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. More simply, a host of private investors, including venture capitalists, bet on Sweetgreen. That figure rises to 108,761,529 shares if we count the additional equity sold and the full total of shares reserved for underwriters. So, we care.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

It’s hard to avoid reactions like that, after DoorDash, for example, doubled its final private share price to $102 for its public debut on Wednesday — only to see the price climb to $175 at the end of the week. DoorDash said to price at $102 per share, doubling its final private price. And maybe DoorDash, Airbnb and C3.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

News broke yesterday that Substack, the popular newsletter publishing tool, called off fundraising plans for a Series C after a raise at its price target failed to materialize. The company’s revenue base, when compared with its hoped-for valuation, was too small to support the numbers that the startup had in mind.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Another big private equity deal : Vista Equity Partners is set to acquire automated tax compliance company Avalara in an all-cash deal valued at $8.4 We loved today’s Equity podcast , “How to lose money, SoftBank edition.” billion, Paul writes. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company had previously targeted a $42 per-share max price for its IPO equity. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The Seattle-based fintech company sold 12,162,777 shares (7,000,000 primary) at $43 apiece. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. While private, Rent the Runway raised hundreds of millions of dollars in equity funding and the odd debt round. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The company was valued at a flat $1.0 The company was valued at a flat $1.0

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. This week on Equity, I interviewed T2 co-founder Sarah Oh , who is building a Twitter rival after working at Twitter as a human rights adviser. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

As TechCrunch reported this morning, Afterpay shareholders will receive 0.375 shares of Square in exchange for their existing equity. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Afterpay has been a key data source, along with the yet-private Klarna and U.S. public BNPL outfit Affirm.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Warby Parker, a D2C glasses company backed by over a half-billion dollars of private capital, filed to go public yesterday. Having taken on equity capital since at least 2011, investors have been waiting a long time for Warby to float. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. This is not merely an academic point; there are a host of startups in the NFT space, meaning that there is an ocean of venture capital and illiquid private-market equity floating in projects directly or indirectly tied to non-fungible token demand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

And in good news for their respective investors, recent pricing points to an IPO market that remains enthusiastic about new listings, despite some recent chop among public technology equities. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Zeta Global is not a firm that I am very familiar with, but because Crunchbase notes that the New York-based startup has raised north of $600 million in private capital in the form of both equity financing and debt, it’s a unicorn worth understanding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Per Crunchbase data , Babylon has raised north of $600 million as a private company. The company’s new equity value after its SPAC deal will land around $4.2 Use the subject line “AI startups,” please. Babylon Health.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But today we have to care a little bit about both, because we need to talk about direct listings, IPOs and how to price private companies. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. If you care about the value of private companies and how they are priced, this is for you.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. billion in half a year’s time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Procore’s filing sets a price range of $60 to $65 per share for its equity. Today’s filing is the first that sets a price for the Carpinteria, California-based software upstart. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

I’m kidding, of course, but today really is Coinbase’s earnings day , and private investors really did just push $210 million into another exchange. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. per diluted piece of equity. The company, FalconX, is now worth $3.75 billion to $1.83

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