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Electric Monster Gobbles Up Funding And A Brand

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The company said the funding came in the form of a debt facility from Metropolitan Partners Group and equity capital from Heroic Ventures, Creator Capital, Together Venture Partners, and Vikrant Mathur & Alok Ranjan (the founders of Future Today Inc.). The company said the acquisition is its fifth acquisition to date.

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DreamHost Raises $30M

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Los Angeles-based hosting company DreamHost is announcing this morning that it has raised $30M in a debt financing round, from Goldman Sachs. acquisition merger funding debt capital venture colocation hosting dreamhost' The company said the financing closed November 27th. READ MORE>>.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. He told them it was now or never.

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PaxVax Finds $62M For Vaccine Efforts

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The funding included $50M in secured debt from Pharmakon Advisors, and $12M in a Series B extension round. The company is backed by Ignition Ventures, Ignition Growth Capital and the Blue Haven Initiative. The new funding goes towards the acquisition of an FDA-approved oral typhoid vaccine, plus further clinical development efforts.

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AwesomenessTV Acquires Big Frame

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According to AwesomenessTV, it will pay $15M in cash, including repayment of outstanding debt, for Big Frame, which will go to help bolster AwesomenessTV''s talent roster, executives, and talent managers. AwesomenessTV''s acquisition by DreamWorks was one of the fastest and most profitable exits of a company ever in Southern California.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Buys Evolv

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in debt and issue Evolv''s employees up to 200,000 shares of its common stock. Evolv was venture backed by VantagePoint, GGV Capital, Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, and developed software-as-a-service aimed at the human resources and employee management market, which helps employers better match job applicants to positions.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. Understand how venture debt might shorten your projections. * If you have raised venture debt you might have even less time. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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