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‘Megadeals’ Dominate Q2 as VCs Invest $15.3B, and Top 10 Deals

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Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 venture capital market leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. billion that a non-traditional investor (the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) invested in San Francisco-based Uber, and the nearly $1.3 San Francisco.

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Equidate, Re-Named Forge Global, Boosts Series B to $85M

Xconomy

By creating a secondary market for private shareholders, companies like Forge Global can. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Sluggish Year for IPOs, But Signs Abound of Post-Election Surge

Xconomy

But this is no time to trash talk the IPO market, according to Kathleen Smith of Renaissance Capital , a Greenwich, CT, firm that manages IPO-focused Exchange Traded Funds. The institutional research firm is predicting a surge of IPOs in the weeks and months to come.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

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