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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

socalTECH

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets/devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2019?

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market). So it’s about 20%.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO.

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Interview with Constance Curtis, The List

socalTECH

We launched our application officially in February of 2019, and we've now been in Southern California for 18 months. Make sure you can find them, acquire them, and know your customer acquisition costs. Constance Curtis: We just opened up our $2M seed funding round, which just opened last week. What are they reading?

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