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Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral

TechCrunch: M&A

Hopin , the virtual events startup that saw its star (and valuation) rise quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is most definitely coming down to earth. That led Hopin to raise more than $1 billion in venture funding from big-name investors that included Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, LinkedIn, Coatue, Salesforce, Tiger and many more.

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Cybersecurity M&A Update Q1 2025

Solganick & Co.

Total funding for venture capital-backed cybersecurity companies increased by 29% sequentially to $2.7 Valuation multiples for publicly traded cybersecurity companies ranged from a median of 10.1x billion in Q1 2025. EV/2025E revenue for high-growth vendors (those growing more than 20%) to a median of 4.6x

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Post 3 - Why does the conventional DCF not work for valuing a start-up/young firm?

Wizenius

Diversity in equity claims: In most of the cases of publicly traded firms with one class of shares, all equity claims on the firm are equivalent.

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Funding M&A Deals with Bitcoin

Deal Law Wire

As Bitcoin gains increasing traction since its inception 11 years ago, we begin to question whether it will slowly replace traditional dollar funding in M&A deals. Whether Bitcoin will be used to fund large M&A deals will likely depend on its ability to stabilize in value. Taxation of Cryptocurrency Transactions in Canada.

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PODCAST REVIEW: M&A Science: How PE Should Support Portfolio Company Acquisitions | Barak Routhenstein w/ Kison Patel

How2Exit

Covering a wide range of topics from integration to valuation, the podcast aims to equip professionals with the knowledge to navigate the ever-changing landscape of mergers and acquisitions. He distinguishes between the approaches of different types of buyers, from family-owned private equity firms to publicly traded companies.

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Interim Guidance on Stock Buyback Excise Tax Confirms Broad Application to M&A and Capital Market Transactions

Cooley M&A

The Inflation Reduction Act imposes a 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded US corporations (“Covered Corporations”) effected after December 31, 2022 (the “Excise Tax”). [1]

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Single Store Generalist Shops | Why the Era is Coming to an End with Cole Strandberg

Focus Investment Banking

Now say we’re in good fortune here for this example because there is only one Pureplay Collision Group that is publicly traded and we know them as the Boy Group or Gerber Collision and Glass. Because they’re publicly traded, we get access to their financials and see how they do quarter in and quarter out and annually for 2023.