Sentence examples for equity financing round from inspiring English sources

FleetMatics, a Boston-based provider of GPS tracking applications for commercial fleets, this morning announced that it has closed a massive $68 million growth equity financing round.

The privately-held company this morning announced that it has secured a $22.5 million equity financing round from "multiple institutional investors", including Silicon Valley firm Battery Ventures.

Its new round of funding represents the largest equity financing round (non-IPO) in the fintech industry in Germany to date and is one of the largest in Europe.

Today's $300 million fundraise has also been labeled by N26 as "largest private equity financing round for a fintech company in Europe," a claim that's backed up by the available data on Pitchbook.

The whopping $794 million debt and equity financing round values the company at $1.35 billion, and the amount raised rivals the mega-investments generated by Groupon and Facebook on the road to IPO.

It basically IS a 2x liquidation preference but that investor doesn't own equity in your company so they deserve a return and the liquidation preference automatically goes away when you do your equity financing round.

At the time of writing, Crunchbase data shows that, globally, there were just 126 VC, PE and post-IPO equity financing rounds larger than $250 million.

SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source CRM software, has completed a $33 million equity and debt financing round.

Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

The company has to date raised approximately £11 million in equity financing via two seed rounds and a Series A, according to Crunchbase.

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