Growth Business

JULY 26, 2023

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success If you’re new to the start-up funding world, you’ll no doubt have stumbled across the words ‘pre-seed’, ‘seed stage’ and ‘Series (x)’ – including on this website. Here, we break down what the funding rounds are and how to prepare for them. Has it got staff?

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Growth Business

JULY 17, 2024

Angel investors A business angel is someone who quite often has a background in business or finance, and has funds to invest in businesses. Questions to ask are: Have they been successful in securing funding in your sector? Are the funding amounts they have secured on behalf of clients similar to the amount you are asking for?

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. SPAC IPOs for esports companies were “hot” for a short period in 2021, but they seem to have died off by now.

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TechCrunch: M&A

MAY 8, 2023

The reason Blinkist hasn’t gone out for funding again in the last five years is because it has’t had to: the company is growing and profitable, and it still has money left in the bank, according to Holger Seim, Blinkist’s CEO and co-founder. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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Cooley M&A

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Market volatility, a low interest rate environment and disillusionment with the IPO process, have made SPACs an attractive alternative for private companies looking to go public in recent months. According to Odeon Capital Group research, as of December 2, 2020, 210 SPAC IPOs had been completed representing gross proceeds of ~$72 billion.

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Global Banking & Finance

MARCH 28, 2024

Leveraging Collaboration and Technology: The Winning Strategy for Corporate Finance Teams In 2024, the global investment banking advisory industry is busy yet again, hoping to forget an incredibly challenging two years which saw the number of IPOs and M&A transactions reduce significantly.

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OfficeHours

JUNE 6, 2023

The goal is to support the development and expansion of innovative companies that may lack access to traditional funding sources. These investments are typically made in companies that are seeking capital to fund expansion, acquisitions, or other strategic initiatives.

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Growth Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The raise means the London-based VC , founded by Skype founder Niklas Zennström, is close to its £1.35bn target for its new growth and venture funds, despite a challenging economic climate. Venture capital: Evaluating the risk profile of investments – How do VCs assess risk when looking forensically at investment portfolios?

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Global Banking & Finance

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The primary sellers include Polish Enterprise Fund VIII, which owns […] GDANSK (Reuters) -Croatian food retailer Studenac is planning an initial public offering with plans to list on the stock exchanges of Warsaw and Zagreb, the company said on Thursday.

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OfficeHours

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For private equity investors, one of the most important considerations for a successful investment is determining the value the firm will receive at exit, which directly impacts fund returns. Initial Public Offering (IPO) One way to exit an investment involves taking the company public through an initial public offering (IPO).

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is using his autumn statement to announce plans for a venture capitalist fellowship programme, aimed at helping fund the UK’s science and technology innovations.

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Wizenius

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

1) Mastering Fund Raising Nuances Through the infusion of debt and equity, an LBO fundamentally reshapes the target company's capital structure. Private equity funds strive to achieve compelling returns by procuring or investing in companies and actively enhancing their growth and profitability.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. But the other problem is that all hedge funds are “event-driven” because they invest based on catalysts , or specific events that could change a security’s price. If this fund is right, the company’s price may increase by 50%.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

This deal will give Vista a handy sum to go out and make more acquisitions at a time when the IPO window largely remains closed; external funding from VCs has in many cases become significantly more stringent, and deal funnels have tightened for the businesses themselves.

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Growth Business

JUNE 8, 2023

In the UK, a downward trend for tech IPOs continued, with volumes falling to their lowest level last year in a decade. Global tech exits — through both IPOs and M&A — remain stagnant, with $21bn in value so far this year, compared to a peak of $177bn in 2020 and $166bn in 2021.

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success In the UK, cleantech, AI, health and biotech dominates venture capital funding – a trend that looks to continue into Q4 and early in the new year. It is interested in companies at pre-Series A through to pre-IPO stage.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Oh, and lots of M&A , IPO , and SPAC deals were happening, so banks made plenty of “COVID hires,” often ignoring qualifications and recruiting norms. Via on-screen text, it states or implies the following: Robinhood’s IPO flopped because of the bad press around GameStop and the trading limits the company imposed on customers.

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OfficeHours

AUGUST 9, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). As further discussed below, private equity firms raise funds from institutional investors and use these funds to acquire ownership stakes in businesses.

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OfficeHours

AUGUST 20, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). As further discussed below, private equity firms raise funds from institutional investors and use these funds to acquire ownership stakes in businesses.

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Razorpay

DECEMBER 2, 2024

What started as a discount brokerage service now spans a wide array of offerings—Equities, Currency, Commodities, IPOs, F&O, and Mutual Funds. has come a long way since its inception, making waves in the Indian financial markets.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity. Many of these firms use debt to fund deals, and they complete bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

Establish an EU equity fund, revitalise our securitisation markets, boost our primary markets and IPO ecosystem, address fragmentation, tackle incentivisation elements like taxation – and ensure that citizens truly endorse our markets by guaranteeing a better participation.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Investment Banking: Deals The basic difference is that in “investment banking” groups, such as technology , TMT , healthcare , or consumer retail , you work on various deal types: sell-side and buy-side M&A, leveraged buyouts, IPOs, follow-on offerings, and bond issuances. or debt offerings (investment-grade or high-yield bonds).

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OfficeHours

JUNE 21, 2023

With M&A deals and IPO activity at their lowest levels since the peak in 2021, the old adage is proving true: “in bull markets, banks tend to over hire, and in bear markets, they over fire.” Or maybe you feel you have enough experience and want to jump direct into an investing role at a hedge fund, private equity firm, or VC fund.

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Growth Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, tech start-ups in London alone raised a record $26bn (£19bn) in funding in 2021, more than double the total in 2020. However, the reality is that many venture capital investors are playing it cautious, wanting to invest in later, safer funding rounds for companies with proven revenue. It has raised over $1bn for 18 funds.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 16, 2024

billion of equity raised over the last five years, as well as ranking number one for UK IPOs under £1 billion market capitalisation by deal volume over the same time frame. Together the two firms have an aggregate of £9.9

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Cleary M&A and Corporate Governance Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

In West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund v. Factual Background At the center of the case is boutique investment bank Moelis & Company and the stockholder agreement that it entered into with its eponymous founder (the “Founder”) just prior to its IPO in 2007. Palm Beach Firefighters Pension Fund v. Opinion at 10.) [3]

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Growth Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This year, Octopus Ventures ’ Entrepreneurial Impact report found that 60 per cent of the top ten performers are based outside the golden triangle, with the University of Dundee topping the list – in part due to the £2.2bn IPO of AI drug discovery company Exscientia on the US NASDAQ, one of the largest ever UK university exits.

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InvestmentBank.com

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jonathan Simnett from corporate law firm Hampleton Partners was reported saying, “[t]he brakes have been slammed on funding until investors are able to create maps to navigate uncharted territory” [4]. Second, the IPO market, a key exit avenue for VC investments, proved increasingly strong and resilient throughout the year. Gornall, W.,

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Growth Business

JULY 11, 2023

If you have a list of potential fund providers, pick the one you least want to deal with and use it as a rehearsal. 3) Aquis Stock Exchange Aquis Stock Exchange , run by NEX, allows businesses to raise capital through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). >See It’s about confidence,’ says Woodland. ‘If

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OfficeHours

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Like a typical leveraged buyout, this can be achieved by selling the company to another private entity or PE firm or taking the company public once again through an IPO. So you want to pursue a role at a Hedge Fund? After a certain period of time, usually 5-7 years, the PE firm will look to exit the investment.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

First, there’s the ability to raise substantial capital by issuing shares to the public in an initial public offering (IPO), as well as secondary offerings. The upshot is that private companies could now raise all the money they needed from private equity or venture capital funds without even considering an IPO.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 10, 2023

“By leveraging our technology platform, we’ll connect Virtu’s retail broker universe directly to the primary capital markets to support the efficient distribution of IPOs, follow-ons, municipals, and private funds at a scale unavailable in today’s marketplace,” said founder and managing partner of InvestorLink, Matt Michel.

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Solganick & Co.

MAY 13, 2024

We’ve seen private capital investment banking practices raise substantial funds amid a difficult fundraising environment. We continue to work with several new private equity funds that have successfully raised capital over the past 12 months. Which industries do you see leading the eventual thawing of the M&A and IPO markets?

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Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 17, 2024

It helps identify the availability of liquid funds with the organization in a particular accounting period. In other words, it mirrors the availability and usage of business funds to reveal its current state of liquidity Liquidity Liquidity is the ease of converting assets or securities into cash.

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Indie Growth Fund Founded: 2014 Sector focus: Creative Ticket size: N/A Current investments: 18 Exits: N/A Bio: As Channel 4’s VC arm, Indie Growth Fund invests in start-ups and independent companies within the creative sector and offers support, guidance and strategic advice. It invests across seed to Series A stages.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 31, 2024

Andrew Carnegie’s partner, Henry Phipps, used his deal proceeds to launch the Bessemer Trust , one of the first modern family offices and a “proto” private equity fund. Note that not all “large” funds do industrial deals. But you could also add the Blackstone “Tactical Opportunities” fund, Centerbridge, and SVP to this list.

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