Fundings & Exits
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Trends
Aki acquires Eyeview’s ad personalization tech
Video advertising company Eyeview shut down in December, but its technology will live on thanks to an acquisition by…
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Layoffs reach 23andMe after hitting Mozilla and the Vision Fund portfolio
Layoffs in the technology and venture-backed worlds continued today, as 23andMe confirmed to CNBC that it laid off around 100…
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Finance
Slack’s worth about 18x revenue, and there’s nothing wrong with that
One odd thing in 2019 has been Slack’s falling share price contrasted against the rising value of the Nasdaq composite,…
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Mastercard acquires security assessment startup, RiskRecon
Mastercard announced today that it is acquiring RiskRecon, a Salt Lake City startup that uses publicly available data to build…
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Hardware IPOs continue to struggle
Now that the final technology IPOs of 2019 have touched down, it’s a good time to start looking back at…
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F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B
F5 got an expensive holiday present today, snagging startup Shape Security for approximately $1 billion. What the networking company gets…
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Negotiate for ‘better’ stock in equity-funded acquisitions
Timothy R. Bowers Contributor Timothy R. Bowers is the Managing Partner of VLP Law Group LLP. Andrew P. Dixon Contributor…
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Do more startups die of indigestion or starvation?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the grey space in between.…
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Ripple raises $200 million to improve global payments
Ripple has raised a $200 million Series C funding round. Tetragon is leading the round, with SBI Holdings and Route…
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Centaurs, centurions, centipedes: the $100M ARR CLUB
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate…
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