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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The institution-driven startup is clearly looking to get its early backers a profitable exit in the IPO. Meanwhile, incoming investors can expect serious operational and financial headwinds.
It is open season for initial public offerings. The market’s risk appetite is such that even the most ambitious of business plans can expect to be welcomed. Ergo, the slew of draft red herring prospectuses that have been filed over the past two weeks.
These DRHPs can be loosely classified into two categories: a) companies with strong track records that are now tapping the public markets opportunistically with high valuations, and b) large “startups” with poor financial metrics that are struggling to raise private capital (venture or private equity) and for whom an IPO remains the only option for a …
