Companies & Capital
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216 articles
Venture Capital Slows Down
The first quarter of 2022 saw a 13% drop in global venture investment quarter over quarter, marking the first time in a year of financing records that startup capital investment declined from one quarter to the next.
09 May 2022
Monster Beverage, A Titan In The Making
Monster Beverage Corporation is a beverage company headquartered in Corona, California, which develops, markets, sells, and distributes energy drinks and concentrates in the U.S. and overseas. Monster Beverage's brands include Monster Energy, Reign, Burn and Relentless.
01 May 2022
Private Equity Steady In Face Of Increasing Volatility
On Monday, KKR announced the full closure of the KKR North America Fund XIII, an oversubscribed $19 billion fund focused on pursuing opportunistic private equity investments in North America.
29 Apr 2022
Apollo Might Join The Twitter-Musk Saga
Apollo does not want to be a member of a private equity consortium that buys the social media business but would provide funding in the form of preferred shares.
21 Apr 2022
Affirm, A Buy-Now-Pay-Later Winner?
Affirm, located in San Francisco, is a publicly traded financial technology startup. The company, which was founded in 2012, is a financial lender that provides consumers with instalment loans that they can use to finance purchases at the point of sale.
17 Apr 2022
Thoma Bravo Taking Over SailPoint
The cybersecurity business SailPoint Technologies announced on Monday that private equity firm Thoma Bravo will acquire it for $ 6.12B, in the latest deal that highlights the heightened interest in the security software market.
15 Apr 2022
Hypebeast Goes Public Through SPAC Merger
Hypebeast is bringing its stock to the United States through a merger with the SPAC Iron Spark I that will value the company at more than $530 million following the investment.
08 Apr 2022
Moody's Corporation
Moody's Corporation is a commercial and financial services firm based in the United States. It is the parent business of Moody's Investors Service, an American credit rating agency, and Moody's Analytics, a financial analysis software and services provider based in the United States
04 Apr 2022
Tech Companies Are Always Growing "Fast"
Fast, a firm that offers online checkout and identity services, has raised $102 million in a Series B round back in March 2021. Stripe, a previous investor in Fast, led the current fundraising round.
01 Apr 2022
Pet Stocks Lose Their Momentum
More than 23 million American families (nearly one in every five) got a pet during the pandemic and many new owners have spent big on their pets. U.S. consumers spent $21.4 billion on non-medical pet supplies in November 2022.
30 Mar 2022
Are Private Companies Overvalued?
Most recently IPOed companies have seen their valuation cut in half in the last months. These include well-known companies like SoFi, Marqeta, Robinhood, Affirm and many other so-called FinTechs or SaaS companies.
23 Mar 2022
EQT AB, The Swedish Leader
EQT is a global investment firm created in 1994 that focuses on investing in, developing, and owning businesses in a variety of geographies, industries, and business models.
21 Mar 2022
Google To Buy Mandiant in $ 5.4B Cybersecurity Deal
Google is paying $5.4 billion to acquire cybersecurity firm Mandiant Inc, a purchase that could have a "ripple effect" as cloud competitors Microsoft and Amazon ratchet up their attempts to secure the fast-growing industry.
11 Mar 2022
Bed Bath & Beyond, The New GameStop?
In premarket trading Monday, Bed Bath & Beyond stock jumped more than 70% when GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen revealed that his investment firm, RC Ventures, owned a roughly 10% position in the business.
08 Mar 2022
Hermes, A Valuable Luxury Business
Hermès is a premium fashion house based in France that was founded in 1837. Leather products, lifestyle accessories, home furnishings, fragrances, jewellery, watches, and ready-to-wear are among its specialties. It has had a Duc carriage with horse as their emblem since the 1950s.
07 Mar 2022
SoftBank Is Cutting Its Alibaba Stake
SoftBank Group Corp is set to reduce its holding in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, according to an analyst, as the Japanese tech titan focusses on unlisted companies and repurchases its shares. In the last quarter, SoftBank sold 20 million Alibaba shares and could sell even more shares in 2022.
02 Mar 2022
Tesla's Gigafactory On Hold
Tesla revealed plans for its first Gigafactory in Europe near Berlin in late 2019, challenging Germany's conventional car industry titans Volkswagen and Daimler.
28 Feb 2022
Louis Vuitton Scales Up Manufacturing In France
The luxury group's sales, as well as those of its rivals Kering and Richemont, have risen dramatically as a result of rising demand for European fashion and accessories.
23 Feb 2022
Intercontinental Exchange: Growing Steadily
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is a Fortune 500 corporation based in the United States that manages worldwide exchanges, clearing houses, and provides mortgage technology, data, and listing services.
20 Feb 2022
Airbus' Engines Restart
After swinging to a record net profit of € 4.2 billion ($ 4.8 billion), Europe's largest aircraft business has reinstated its dividend for the first time in two years.
17 Feb 2022