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Dropbox Drops Valuation by $2.5 Bn Ahead of IPO
14Mar By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments
Market

Dropbox Drops Valuation by $2.5 Bn Ahead of IPO

Dropbox, the file storage company, set proposed terms for its initial public offering. The company’s IPO owns 36 million shares on offer, 5.4 million as underwriter green-shoe offering, a $16-$18 per-share price range, a maximum initial sale of $648 million and a fully-cocked $745.2 million bill including the green-shoe shares. This puts the valuation of the company at around $7.5 billion ahead of its initial public offering, hence making Dropbox the biggest tech IPOs in the last few years. However, this figure is lower than the $ 10 billion valuation set by the company in 2014 when raising private capital. This valuation will make the file storage company the largest U.S tech IPO since Snap Inc. made its stock debut in March 2017. The filings released by the company also revealed that ...
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Biggest Venture Backed Companies Worth Nearly $500 Billion: Report
3Jun By reutersNo Comments
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Biggest Venture Backed Companies Worth Nearly $500 Billion: Report

The total valuation of late-stage, venture-backed private companies in the UnitedStates and Europe has exploded from a few dozen startups worth acollective $40 billion in 2010 to hundreds of firms thattogether are now worth almost $500 billion, according to a report released Thursday. The numbers show the magnitude of the recent trend in which the biggest Silicon Valley startups raise hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars from hedge funds, mutual funds and other private investors while delaying their entrance into public markets. There are now 471 late-stage private companies - defined as firms that have raised at least $75 million through at least three rounds of financing - with an approximate valuation of$490 billion, according to the report from Scenic Advisement, aSan...
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Decoding: Venture Capital Investments Globally
18Jul By reutersNo Comments
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Decoding: Venture Capital Investments Globally

Venture capital investments in startups rebounded in the second quarter, as a general stock market recovery helped restore confidence, according to a new report published on Friday. Investors plowed $15.3 billion into venture-backed startups in the second quarter of this year, a 20.5 percent increase over the $12.7 billion invested in the first quarter, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The report's conclusions are based on data from Thomson Reuters. "There was a bit of a pause in the first quarter when the public markets took a beating," said Sean Cunningham, managing director of Trident Capital Cybersecurity. "The public markets are back. Everyone is bullish." Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc and mes...
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A Reply To HSBC & Media From Deepinder Goyal (Founder of Zomato)
9May By No Comments
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A Reply To HSBC & Media From Deepinder Goyal (Founder of Zomato)

An HSBC analyst report marked down our valuation from $1b to $500m. For starters, this is very different from all the markdowns so far where investors have marked down their own investments. But given all the media reports, I got a lot of questions from people at Zomato about what’s going on. Here’s an email I sent to everybody at Zomato (2100 people currently across the world) to allay their concerns and answer their questions. Read on. Hello all, You must have woken up today to Google Alerts with mentions of Zomato’s valuation being marked down by HSBC. As you already know, the media is all over it, and we are trending on Twitter. Since the report isn’t public, and we all get troubled by where we are and where we are heading, here’s some context and detail around the HSBC ...
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A Fall In Tech Valuations, U.S. and Chinese unicorns running in different directions
21Dec By No Comments
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A Fall In Tech Valuations, U.S. and Chinese unicorns running in different directions

A fall in tech valuations may send U.S. and Chinese unicorns running in different directions. Several private Silicon Valley firms worth $1 billion or more have taken valuation hits once they are in the public eye. The same may be happening to one-horned beasts in the People’s Republic, only in private. Take Jack Dorsey’s U.S. online payments outfit, Square. The shares popped enthusiastically on the company’s stock market debut in November, but its market capitalization remains about a third below the $6 billion price tag implied by an earlier private funding round. Some unicorns that have yet to go public are already feeling the chill. Fidelity Investments, a prominent investor in late-stage private financings, recently marked down its holding in Snapchat by 25 percent from a headline ...
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