socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Santa Monica-based prescription and healthcare marketplace operator GoodRx has priced its IPO, saying late last night that it is offering up 34,615,384 shares of its Class A common stock at $33.00 The company priced well above its initial offering range, which was $24.00 per share, indicating high investor interst in the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. As an entrepreneur it can feel as intimidating as going to buy a car where the dealer knows the price of every make & model of a car and you’re guessing at how much to pay.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. ” And some seed stage investors told me, “I prefer not to fight over price now. They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.” Enter “the cap.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2020

San Diego-based Avidity Bio , a biopharmaceuticals company working on oligonucleotide-based therapies, priced its IPO last night, saying that it will offer up 14,400,000 shares of its common stock at $18.00 The company priced above its initial estimated offering range of $14.00 READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2021

San Diego-based TuSimple priced its IPO last night, saying that it will sell 33,783,783 shares of its Class A common stock at the price of $40.00 Morgan, along withBofA Securities, Cowen, Credit Suisse, Nomura and RBC Capital Markets, Baird, Needham & Company, Oppenheimer & Co., Piper Sandler and Valuable Capital.

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MAY 20, 2021

Carpinteria-based construction management software developer Procore Technologies priced its IPO last night, saying it will sell 9,470,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $67.00 The IPO priced above the company's initial estimated IPO range, which was $60.00 The IPO was underwritten by Goldman Sachs & Co.,

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MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. What price? The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What stage? ” Fair play.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 16, 2021

New backers include Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Squarespace founder & CEO Anthony Casalena said the fresh capital will advance the company’s growth initiatives and help it scale its product suite.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Santa Monica-based GoodRx , a developer of a digital healthcare and prescriptions service, has set an IPO pricing range of between $24.00 and $28.00 The company is looking to raise as much as $1.1 billion through its IPO on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. GoodRx has filed to trade as GDRX. Seelaus & Co., LLC and Ramirez & Co.,

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MAY 18, 2021

San Diego-based Evofem Biosciences, which is developing biopharmaceuticals for women's contraception and related areas, says it has priced a $50M, public offering, and also will receive up to an additoinal $50M upon exercise of accompanying short-term warrant.

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JUNE 8, 2020

La Jolla-based Avidity Biosciences , which is developing oligonucleotide-based therapies for rare and serious diseases, has set the pricing range for its IPO, saying it is looking to sell 10 million shares at between $14.00 and $16.00 The company said it has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Market as RNA. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Irvine-based VIZIO priced its IPO last night, saying it will sell 12,250,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $21.00 The price is at the low end of its earlier estimated IPO range of $21.00 VIZIO will start trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VZIO.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2021

Carpinteria-based construction management software developer Procore has set its estimated initial IPO pricing, saying in a filing today that it now expects an initial offering price of betweenn $60.00 Morgan, Barclays, Jefferies, Canaccord Genuity, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Oppenheimer & Co., and $65.00

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). There is a mythology amongst some LPs (funds that invest in VCs) and some VCs that “entry price doesn’t matter – only investing in the absolute best entrepreneurs.” So entry price matters a lot. ” That’s b t.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Laguna Hills-based dental technology developer Sonendo priced its IPO late last night, saying that it will sell 7,800,000 shares of its common stock at $12.00 Sonendo's backers include General Atlantic, OrbiMed, Meritech Capital, and EW Healthcare. per share, which will provide the company total gross proceeds of $93.6M.

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JUNE 5, 2016

There was an explosion in number of startups both because it was cheap and there was tons of available capital. Specifically I mean teams that were going too fast at raising, optimizing around the highest price or avoiding larger investors because they wanted a lot of small players who couldn’t exert any control (terms, price, etc.).

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MAY 5, 2013

.” In the article I discussed the downside of raising capital at a too high of a price and referred people to a previous article I had written encouraging founders to raise “ At the Top end of Normal ” as opposed to stratospheric prices. In the comments section Siqi Chen wrote a great question.

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JUNE 11, 2021

La Jolla-based biopharmaceuticals startup Janux Therapeutics said early this morning that it has priced its IPO, offering up 11,400,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 The company's biggest shareholders before the IPO were Avalon Ventures, RA Capital Healthcare, Orbimed, Bregua Corporation, and Correlation Ventures.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2021

Long Beach-based Agilon Health, which operates a network of physicians focused on Medicare patients, has set its IPO pricing range, saying it hopes to sell 46,600,000 shares of its common stock at between $20.00 The company's biggest shareholders are CD&R Vector Holdings, along with Morgan Stanley and Capital World. and $23.00

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2021

Los Angeles-based Magnite, the sell-side advertising software developer which was previously known as Rubicon Project, says it has priced an offering of $350M in convertible senior notes. The company said the convertible note offering was made to qualified institutional buyers. The notes are due in 2026.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2021

The company said it expects its initial offering price to be between $21.00 Morgan and BofA Securities, along with Wells Fargo Securities Guggenheim Securities, Needham & Company, Piper Sandler as well as Roth Capital Partners. and $23.00 The company is looking to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VZIO.

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JULY 26, 2016

In picking your market you should focus on “deflationary economics” or lowering the price, functionality and margin of your business but targeting ever-increasing market sizes afforded by Internet scale. But unless you are prepared to compete with NASA for space exploration set your goals on planet basecamp.

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MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. What price? The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What stage? ” Fair play.

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APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. If we got an offer to raise $25 million to grow would she take it or be too worried about exit price, dilution, valuation expectations, etc. I don’t believe in paying the highest price to win deals.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2022

The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag. As you scroll, you can guess whether the price Playhouse showed you is higher or lower than the actual listing price, helping to educate future buyers about the market (… and also it’s fun, even if you’re not looking to buy a $2 million home in San Francisco).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

But what started in the gaming world quickly spun out as the company slashed prices to $500 per month for its services. Existing investors like SeventySix Capital, The Strand Partners, Stadia Ventures, Hersh Interactive Group, and Transcend Fund, as well as early Zoom employees Richard Gatchalian and Aaron Lewis, also participated. .

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here is the warning: The execution of partnership equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. How about the price per share? How many options are appropriate for a grant?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s s SB Opportunity Fund. Big banks rush to back Greenwood, Killer Mike’s Atlanta-based digital bank for underrepresented customers.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Los Angeles-based ProducePay has inked a $190 million debt facility from Coventure and TCM Capital, to expand its lending business and marketplace for farmers. ProducePay offers farmers cash advances throughout the growing season to smooth the sometimes lumpy revenues and give farmers a bit more predictability, the company said.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 2, 2018

The Series C round from late stage and growth capital investment firm, The Riverside Company , caps a busy first quarter for the massage service. The company said the new round would help keep massage therapists in its network with pricing that can be up to three times more than those therapists would make in their local markets.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Rowe Price Associates Inc. The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. The company plans to do more acquisitions with the capital, according to Newton. The company plans to use its new capital to continue investing in its platform as well as toward strategic partnerships.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital. New investors sometimes want early investors to put in money to “prove” they have confidence in the new price. Thus begins the dance.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital.

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JUNE 9, 2013

As I outlined in my talk, I believe the greatest Internet companies created over the past 15 years have been “deflationary” meaning they are driving down the prices or goods & services. Declining prices & margins in a small market is much less interesting. Prices down. Network Up. But what else?

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