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How To Invest In Pre-IPO Startups
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 9:18am | 720This year has brought a flurry of high-profile IPOs, but the new stocks have hit the market with mixed returns for early investors. Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND) is up more than 500% from its IPO price and MMTec Inc (NASDAQ: MTC) is up more than 300%. Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE: UBER) and LYFT...
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What's So Special About Nutanix?
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 6:37am | 408Shares of Nutanix Inc (NASDAQ: NTNX) started trading Friday, with an opening price of $16, above the originally anticipated range of $13 to $15. The stock gained more than 110 percent over the day to $33.75. How could this IPO impact other tech IPOs going forward? Analysts at EquityZen...
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Meet These 3 Cool Companies That Will Help You Invest Like A Pro
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 6:16pm | 455The vast majority of people don't have the capital to invest like a hedge fund. It takes skill, knowledge and monetary resources...right? Not so much anymore, due to advances in the fintech space, some startups are helping regular people invest in private companies. Here are a few of them....
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Here's How Morgan Stanley Values Unicorns
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 4:25pm | 308In a recent email to investors, EquityZen's Phil Haslett revealed the methods that Morgan Stanley uses to value its pre-IPO unicorn investments. Morgan Stanley recently marked down the values of their positions in Palantir, Dropbox, FlipKart and SurveyMonkey. According to EquityZen's...
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IPO Lite? A New Way For Firms To Seek Public Financing
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 2:48pm | 441The U.S. government on Friday is set to enact one of two outstanding titles of the US JOBS Act. Regulation A+ is an update to the outdated Regulation A, which allowed a company to raise up to $5 million in public capital over a 12-month period without launching an IPO. Under Regulation A+, the...
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EquityZen: A Stock Market For Private Companies
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 12:08pm | 414Among the contestants for the Benzinga Fintech Awards is EquityZen, a marketplace for secondary investments in $50 million private companies and startups. Benzinga recently interviewed EquityZen CEO, Atish Davda. Here is what Davda had to say about his company and its future prospects. What...