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Venture Capital: Annual VC Valuations Report

Deal Lawyers

PitchBook recently published its 2023 Venture Capital Valuations Report, and not surprisingly, the news is pretty grim. VC valuations continued to head south from their 2021-22 levels. Not surprisingly, exit prospects weren’t great either.

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The Return of the Exit

JD Supra: Mergers

Exit plans have either swiveled or been put on hold as valuations have remained low, and there has not been a huge market for M&A or IPOs. While we may not see the activity level we experienced in 2021, we could see an increase in deals and more exit options available.

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Will There Be an IPO for a Specialty Consulting Company in 2024?

Focus Investment Banking

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. It would be interesting to see if one of these PE firms decides to launch an IPO in 2024. As 2024 starts, the U.S.

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Cooley’s 2021 Tech M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Despite everyone’s efforts in 2021, including the rollout of vaccines and varying rounds of lockdowns and work-from-home mandates, a true “return to normal” for M&A dealmakers was foiled anew by COVID-19 and its variants. trillion during 2021 – an increase of 71% compared to 2020 – and accounted for 20% of the $5.9 trillion(!)

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Okay, which analyzes engineers’ productivity, sells to Stripe

TechCrunch: M&A

They were u sually companies in the pre-IPO phase with hundreds to thousands of engineers where the manager wanted to start tracking what others are doing, and looking for tools to help with decision-making.” And Stripe, which has yet to go public via a long-awaited IPO, earlier this year raised $6.5

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Upgrade acquires travel-focused BNPL startup Uplift for a song

TechCrunch: M&A

Uplift had raised nearly $700 million in equity and debt, securing $123 million at a reported $195 million valuation in its Series C round alone. ” Laplanche is referring to the BNPL-style product that Upgrade launched in October 2021, which lets users pay down their debt over six to 36 months with a fixed interest rate.

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Behind the Buyouts: Solomon’s Leonhardt on Consumer M&A Resurgence

The Deal

Direct-to-consumer businesses, darlings of the investor community in 2021, saw their techlike valuations plummet. Public markets, however, have been tepid, with the much-awaited IPO of L Catterton Management Ltd. portfolio company Birkenstock GmbH & Co.

M&A 64