Tag: The Exchange

Heading into 2021: Venture fundraising, liquidity and the everything bubble

The last twelve months have provided us with shocking lows and surprising highs. In startup land, great expectations in January and February were followed by dashed hopes in March. Those woes were followed by April despair, surprised optimism from May through June, and, finally, a straight shot all the way…

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Can you IPO sneakers? Also, this is the last Exchange roundup of the year

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Subscribe here.  Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Sweet dreams are made of IPOs,…

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How to find your next VC

I presume that by now you are caught up on all things DoorDash IPO (pricing, trading, the future), C3.ai (pricing, trading, the future), and Airbnb (pricing, trading). What follows presumes you are read-up. To kick off Market Notes this weeks, some Market News: Braze has grown 60% during the first three quarters of its fiscal year. Sadly,…

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In public and private markets, cloud earnings and valuations heat up

Good news for software startups riding the updraft Alex Wilhelm 1 day This quarter, strong earnings results from public cloud companies were overshadowed by a seemingly endless IPO cycle. Another moment we somewhat missed over the last few weeks was the stock market pushing the value of public cloud companies…

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How one company reached revenues of $200M without VC money

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Subscribe here.  Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. So very…

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DoorDash amps its IPO range ahead of blockbuster IPO

Investors have not lost their appetite for growth shares Alex Wilhelm 23 hours DoorDash filed a fresh S-1/A, providing the market with a new price range for its impending IPO. The American food delivery unicorn now expects to debut at $90 to $95 per share, up from a previous range…

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