Raising a Down Round and How to Be Prepared
AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law Podcast - Episode 4: Preparing for a Transaction? What Emerging Growth Companies Need to Know
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 204: Accelerating Life Sciences Startups with James Chappell of SCbio
Welcome to “Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture Voices”
A Conversation with Janade du Plessis of Launch Africa Ventures: Balancing Sustainable Development with ROI
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 180: SCBIO and the Life Sciences Industry in South Carolina with James Chappell, SCBIO CEO
Podcast Episode 188: The Power of a Sector Based Approach: Specificity Drives Strategy
A Conversation With Consortium - COVID-19 Client Stories
Life Sciences Quarterly: A View From Washington: What to Expect From the SEC
Ryan Hong Discusses Important Contracts for Startups
Venture Capital Trends: East Meets West – Lewis Geffen, Co-chair, Venture Capital Practice
Financing Challenges for Small Cap Companies
Jaffe Sees 'A Lot' of IPOs in 2013 'Pipeline'
JOBS Act Lessens Disclosure Requirements
On June 23, 2025, the House of Representatives (the “House”) passed seven bills relating to capital formation. As discussed in a previous post, these bills were reported to the House by the House Committee on Financial...more
In late May 2025, the House Committee on Financial Services (the “Committee”) held a full committee markup, during which the Committee successfully reported 25 bills to the House of Representatives (the “House”). The bills...more
Join medical device and digital health entrepreneurs, CEOs of venture-backed companies, and business development executives from large Medtech and digital health companies, as well as angels, venture capitalists, and...more
Les fluctuations des marchés de fusions et acquisitions (« F&A ») et du financement au cours des dernières années, particulièrement dans le secteur des entreprises émergentes et du capital de risque, ont fait ressortir...more
The ups and downs of the M&A and financing markets over the past few years, particularly in the emerging companies (EC) and venture capital (VC) sector, have demonstrated the importance of emerging companies and their...more
As we’ve noted in a previous article, the Y Combinator-hosted SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) has become the investment contract of choice for startup companies that have already attracted investors. However, the...more
So you decided to use a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) to raise money for your new startup – congratulations! And you’re off to a good start because you read our previous article, which summarized how to use the...more
U.S. emerging growth companies face many challenges in today’s dynamic capital market when considering going public. One historic obstacle has been the limited number of national exchanges available, with companies usually...more
Welcome to the March edition of Blakes upRound, a regular publication from the Blakes Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (EC&VC) group that highlights legal developments relevant to venture investors and emerging companies...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) faces an uncertain timeline to implement its new climate disclosure rule, as nine legal challenges have now been transferred to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth...more
The global finance industry has been undergoing a significant shift in recent years, with investment patterns showing a slow but steady pivot towards Low Income, Lower Middle Income, and Upper Middle Income nations, as...more
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final climate risk disclosure rules on March 6, 2024, nearly two years after the controversial proposed rules generated intense interest and debate. The Enhancement and...more
Decarbonisation and digitisation: two of the key trends we heard a lot about in 2023 and we see no signs of that abating in 2024. Hand in hand with this, one of the ongoing themes for sponsors in the infra space is: how...more
2023 was a pivotal year for the emerging companies, creating new categories of winners and losers across the board. Emerging companies incorporating artificial intelligence or that have clear line of sight to positive cash...more
Venture capital can be a vital source of funding and support for emerging companies in the healthy food and beverage space. In addition to providing capital, venture capitalists may offer strategic guidance, networking...more
The moniker “venture capital” is believed to have originated from the financier John Hay Whitney. Having served in World War 2, Whitney returned to the United States with a new mission: to spread American ideals of free...more
Following a lackluster 2022, the IPO market continued to flounder during 2023, partially attributable to ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical uncertainty, including sustained high interest rates, the banking...more
The life sciences industry depended historically on public offerings for fundraising to support costs of developing therapeutic pharmaceutical and biologic products. The average cost of discovering and developing these...more
Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more
In this episode of the Legal Marketing 2.0 Podcast, Guy is joined by Jennifer Ramsey. Jennifer Ramsey is a former investment banker who discovered love of marketing / BD while preparing sales decks for road shows to pitch...more
Emerging companies formed outside the United States may want to redomicile their businesses to the United States to, among other things, enhance their fundraising prospects. U.S. venture capital investors often require...more
Jonathan Grayer, Chairman and CEO of Imagine Learning, has been an executive, an owner, a founder, and a growth investor. In episode seven of Private Market Talks, Jonathan takes us through his history as CEO and Chairman of...more
Voici la toute première édition de l’infolettre Blakes upRoundTM, une publication régulière dans laquelle le groupe Entreprises émergentes et capital de risque (« EÉ&CR ») de Blakes entend faire le point sur les...more
Mark Koulogeorge is the managing general partner of MK Capital, an early and growth-state venture capital firm that primarily invests in disruptive business-to-business software and technology companies in their A and B...more