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Deal Count Increases and Invested Capital Down for Late-Stage Rounds; Valuations Rise and Pay-to-Play Reaches 10.1%

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Cooley handled 238 reported venture capital financings in Q2 2025, representing $6.5 billion of invested capital. Deal count increased by more than 20% across all stages of financing compared to the previous quarter, with...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 174

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Food Venture Financing Trends - Danone announced that it plans to sell its Horizon Organic and Wallaby Brands businesses to Platinum Equity, an investment firm, for an undisclosed amount. Danone will continue to retain a...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Founder Series: Top Tips on Raising Bridge Financing

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Convertible securities such as simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs), advance subscription agreements (ASAs) and conventional convertible loan notes (CLNs) are increasingly used as agile and flexible funding...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

European Commission Launches Capital Markets Union Action Plan

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On September 30, the European Commission (EC) launched the Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan as the initial blueprint to help build a single market for capital within the European Union. The intention of the CMU is to...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The Entrepreneurs Report - 1H 2015

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As we reported in Q1 2015, venture money is continuing to shift to a smaller number of large deals, which is causing surges in both the percentage of deals that are up rounds (which remained quite high in Q2) and pre-money...more

Buchalter

Bank and Finance: The Equity Cure Provision—Saving Debt with Equity

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For many sponsor backed borrowers, and this would include technology companies which have raised at least one round of financing, the equity cure provides a lifeline which isn’t necessarily available to traditional borrowers....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Why Start-Ups Use Convertible Debt Part I: Common Stock Financing and the Problem of Setting a Valuation

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Most start-up companies turn to friends, family and/or high net worth individuals as the first source of capital to fund their operations. Banks will not lend to these companies since there are no real assets to collateralize...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"US IPO Market Review and Outlook: Can the Pace Continue?"

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The 2014 U.S. initial public offering market was the most active for new issues since 2000. The market began to recover from the recession in 2010 and took off in 2013 with 222 offerings raising an aggregate of $55 billion,1...more

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Negotiating Your “Series A” Financing

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One of your first tasks in financing your technology company is likely to be completing your initial equity financing with outside investors. Typically, these financings are done with a venture capital firm (“VC”), angel...more

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Investment Trends in the Gaming Industry

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Over the past decade, the gaming industry has evolved into one of the hottest sectors of mobile internet services. VentureBeat recently reported that in the trailing twelve months of Q3 2014, gaming accounted for $18 billion...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Q&A With Digital Media Investors Part I: Digital Media Funding Trends

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Foley Partner Beth Felder gathered a group of digital media investor experts – Don Dodge, Developer Advocate for Google, James Geshwiler, Managing Director of CommonAngels and Eric Hjerpe, Partner at Kepha Partners – at our...more

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