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The company formerly known as Twitter, X is valuing itself at $19 billion, per internal documents obtained by Fortune. When Elon Musk bought the company one year ago this week,…

After SVB’s failure, who’s most vulnerable, who stands to benefit, and what are some of the long-term implications for venture capital?

A fair valuation that feels good to both the founder and investor will lead to a partnership in which both sides win.

Many VCs have said startups should always choose a down round over a structured round, but it isn’t that cut and dry.

While Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter negatively impacted Tesla’s stock price, SpaceX didn’t see the same result.

New data from Carta indicates that valuations for very early-stage startups are holding up better than we might have expected in the current slowdown.

Capital has been abundant in the past few years, which fostered a tendency to underprepare for fundraising. Shortcuts are no longer a good idea.

Down round news may not be a slam dunk that generates a tier one feature like a funding round that drove your valuation upward, but it’s still funding.

Stripe has laid off some of the employees who support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources and firsthand documentation. The…

No one expects every startup worth $1 billion to be ready to go public, but the collection of billion-dollar startups that are ready to list is larger than you might…

A solid financial structure must not be underestimated. It provides credibility and puts the target company in a stronger negotiating position.

For investors, now is a good time to start seeing the opportunities while also protecting themselves against potential risks down the line.

Despite a slowdown in financing and an apparent over-investment in certain cybersecurity subsectors, investors don’t expect doom and gloom for the cybersecurity market going forward.

While IPOs may get more headlines, a well-timed, well-planned acquisition can mean even larger opportunities for you, your team and the technologies you’ve built.

Green startups now need to refine their strategies for raising VC money during the scaling stage, especially when they begin assessing their defining values vis-a-vis their finances.

As one of the most richly valued startups in history, is Stripe’s internal valuation cut as bearish as the big numbers might lead some to believe?

As valuations continue to undulate, the most important thing founders and CEOs can do is show investors that when a downturn hits, your startup can survive and continue to gain…

Crypto infrastructure provider Blockdaemon has acquired Danish startup Sepior, a digital asset security company providing key management services for institutional clients, for an undisclosed price. The deal marks the startup’s…

If Instacart, which was able to raise aggressively during the pandemic, is actually worth a fraction of what investors calculated last year, what about other unicorns?

Despite multiple overtures by the British government to woo tech companies and keep the largest ones from defecting to the U.S., the latest example of the failure of this policy…

There’s perhaps more capital in the private markets than investors really want to admit.

As founders bend over backward to get backing, legal due diligence can sometimes go overlooked.

Though it may seem counterintuitive, a lowered valuation could reap benefits for your employees and your company’s recruitment efforts.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Klarna, a European buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider, is considering raising capital at a valuation of around $15 billion. The new figure…

The U.S. has seen monthly funding drop 36.7% through the end of May, while Europe saw a decline of 50% in the same period. But it doesn’t feel like the…