The venture capital arena has been raising money at a furious pace, but VC firms have also been sitting on the cash for dry powder. As Reuters reported last week, venture firms invested $12.1 billion in the first quarter, which slowed from $17.3 billion in...
Apple announced the somewhat surprising move this morning of a $1 billion investment into Didi Chuxing — a ridesharing service that acts as one of Uber’s main rivals in China. Apple CEO Tim Cook says the move was undertaken in an attempt to learn more...
German POS solution provider orderbird has raised close to $23 million in a Series C funding round, the company announced. The investment round, which was led by Digital+ Partners and METRO GROUP, also saw participation from previous investor Concardis, the European payment service provider. Orderbird said...
Liquidity is what makes markets go ‘round. It’s also what small-cap stocks generally lack and why investors have begun to build a “wall of worry” around them. Exhibit A: alt-lending stocks.
The era of the down round is upon us. And it has been since 2016 ticked over on the calendar and investors came by the quaint notion that actual profits and a path to scalability are more monetarily valuable than a clever idea and a...
From Xfund to ex-fund? A venture capital fund with a pedigree that stretches back five years and to Harvard Square may be teetering on the edge of extinction, as an unusual degree of hostile, and now public, disputes between its two partners continue to rage....
On the consumer end of an eCommerce transaction – these days clicking the buy buttons is usually the end of the road, one way or the other. Usually, the transaction goes through – the widget goes into the mail and everyone goes to bed happy....
All great love affairs come to an end. On Wall Street, they come to a very public end. Famed investor Carl Icahn and Apple have broken up. In news reported by various outlets on Thursday (April 28), the activist investor told CNBC that his worries...
Unicorns are one thing. Unicorns on steroids are quite another. As is well known by now, Ant Financial, the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 billion in its latest financing round, a tidy sum above the $3.5 billion it had initially been...
