PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

Sujith Narayanan and Sumit Gwalani, both co-founders of Google Pay India — formerly called Google Tez — said the seed funding brings the neo-bank startup epiFi to a valuation of roughly $50 million. FinTech startups have been aggressive at filling the banking void. billion into startup lenders.

Concentration 40

Concentration Startups Valuation Financial Systems 40

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 2, 2024

She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startups like Gimlett and Lightwell, that were later acquired by Spotify and Twitter. Soraya Darabi : About half the time VC firms are concentrated into three metropolitan areas, California, New York, and Massachusetts.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Startups Concentration 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

perhaps not surprisingly, given the two transactions just mentioned — represented the bulk of concentration, to the tune of 86 percent of all investment activity. Before C3 IoT, he headed Siebel Systems, a CRM startup, which he later sold to Oracle. CEO Tom Siebel has a knack for predicting when to scale IoT deployment.

Investments 74

Investments Concentration Valuation Technology 74

PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

billion deal for a minority stake in Indian telecom startup Reliance Jio, giving the social media giant a larger foothold in the region. These deals also solidify the tech giants’ deep pockets amid the COVID-19 crisis, as they seek to take advantage of their record valuations and become the dominant players in emerging sectors, FT reported.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Concentration Valuation Startups 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Valuation Education Finance Numbers 119

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

You begin at a few tech startups, you found Dex, which eventually gets acquired by Lotus. What was the startup process like? These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation. The parallels are that there is a concentration of interest. We’ll buy the rest of it at a, a full valuation, which we did.

Technology 52

Technology Manufacturing Investments Education 52

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

That seems like there’s endless amounts of money around and, and no shortage of people willing to, to fund startups. So, so does that create opportunities for other companies to come in and be in disrupt disruptors, or are are they sort of blocking the, the entranceway to new startups that want to compete in that same space?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Investments Numbers Marketing 52