Pacer Ventures has announced a $3M fund for early-stage African startups that are solving some of the most critical problems on the continent. The focus will be on verticals expedient to the African continent including healthcare, financial inclusion, education and agriculture.
Understand the different types of listing processes and the differences between them. The startup journey, described a financial sense, is a process of raising larger and larger amounts of funding to support growth. This money usually comes from private investors like venture capital firm and [...]
By Daneesh Shahar Governments around the world are funneling money to keep the startup ecosystem alive The novel coronavirus pandemic has quickly become this generation’s defining event. The fallout has led us to assign the pandemic to a particular tier, where it ranks among the likes of the [...]
Controversy has a new favorite child with these five tech startup scandals. Scandal in Silicon Valley came into full view of the world with John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. The book documents how leadership at biotech startup Theranos raised money, built a [...]
In 2020, SPAC listings have raised more than the combined SPAC IPO proceeds raised in the last four years. As more and more Chinese startups line up for listings in the U.S., another notable trend emerging in U.S. stock markets is the recent spike in Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) or [...]
Over 20 Chinese companies have already raised $5.23 billion in U.S. IPOs this year Despite China and the U.S. being embroiled in a trade war for more than 2 years, and the tightening of IPO filing restrictions and guidelines, a slew of Chinese companies are racing to go public in the U.S., with 6 [...]