Tag: unicorns
VCs reload ahead of the election as unicorns power ahead
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COVID-19 fails to stop the march of the unicorns
We’re digging into Q2 2020 venture capital results this week. Today we are exploring U.S.-specific results after taking a broader perspective yesterday. As with...
Startups Weekly: Tech unicorns look to IPOs as Lemonade, Accolade boom
Hundreds of tech-oriented startups worth a billion or more dollars had envisioned successful public offerings before the pandemic hit. But new tech listings slowed...
High-flying IPOs for Lemonade and Accolade may encourage other unicorns to...
If you’d predicted in late March and early April that Q3 would kick off with a wide-open IPO market and receptive investors, I doubt...
With three unicorns under its belt, Hoxton Ventures outs ~$100M second...
Hoxton Ventures, the London-based early-stage VC firm best known for backing British unicorns Babylon Health, Darktrace and Deliveroo, is announcing its second fund, which...
Why are unicorns pushing back IPOs when the Nasdaq is near...
The unicorns are still at it, Vision Fund 2 or no Vision Fund 2. This week, Instacart announced that it has raised fresh capital...
Layoffs at Lime and Getaround herald rise of profit-hungry unicorns
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. A million dollars isn’t...
The year of the French unicorns
In September 2019, President Emmanuel Macron was about to wrap up a speech on late-stage investment in France. According to a press briefing and...
Latin America roundup: SoftBank bets on Brazilian unicorns and Konfio raises...
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Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care
In Silicon Valley, investors don’t expect their portfolio companies to be profitable. “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies,” a bible for...
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