 August 26, 2023  An analysis of The Crunchbase Billion-Dollar Exits Board finds that many of the billion-dollar-plus companies that went public at the peak of 2021 are now trading well below their IPO prices. We look at what that means for late-stage startups ready to take the leap to the public markets.  In the past couple of years, developers of tools aimed at employers with hybrid workforces have raised hundreds of millions in venture and growth funding.  The first seven months of the year saw only 34 cyber startups get acquired, putting dealmaking at its slowest pace since 2017 — which witnessed only 52 startups get bought the entire year.  This week made us check the calendar to make sure we aren't still living in the free-money days of 2021. Eight rounds this week topped nine figures, and three of those were more than a quarter-billion dollars.  A couple of recent nice-sized funding rounds illustrate the growing appetite Saudi Arabia-based investors have in U.S. startups.  There's been some brisk dealmaking over the past couple of years in providers of weather forecasting and analytics tools. We use Crunchbase data to see where the money is going. Crunchbase, Inc. |
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