Inside Airbnb’s S-1, And Better.com Ceo Hit With Fraud Claims | The Real Deal South Florida
Top 5 takeaways from Airbnb’s S-1 Airbnb’s prospectus dropped this week, giving investors their first glimpse at the company’s books. What did they find? Nearly 350 pages detailing a rollercoaster of revenue and losses. Airbnb’s gross bookings totaled $38 billion in 2019, up 29 percent year over year, with $4.8 billion in revenue, compared to $3.7 billion in 2018. It lost $674.3 million last year. Below are 5 more highlights: 1. Covid made a big ... [more]
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Covid Mrna Vaccines Are A Form Of Gene Therapy
Late last year, the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines jabs were both licensed for emergency use only by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As the vaccinations begin to spread among the world population, the growth of other gene therapies as a type of vaccination could increase. Institutional investors like sovereign funds and biotech [...]
Private Equity Funds Add Key Manpower For Future Growth - The Economic Times
Mumbai: It was supposed to be a washout year. With the economy coming to a standstill with a raging pandemic and the resultant lockdown, businesses suffered the most. But hiring in private equity funds across stages paints a different picture -- one that is of green shoots and optimism.According to data exclusively put together for ET by staffing firm Native (erstwhile VitoAltor), there were about 220 hires in global and domestic private equity and venture capital funds in India in the past one year, the highest at least in five years.
Istox Exec Says Digital Securities To Grow By "leaps And Bounds" As Dlt Based Platform Secures $50M Via Series A Round
iSTOX Exec Says Digital Securities to Grow by "Leaps and Bounds" as DLT based Platform Secures $50M via Series A Round Crowdfund Insider.
Malaysia's P2p Financing Platform Capbay Secures $20M In Series A Round
The funding comes from returning backer KK Fund. The post Malaysia's P2P financing platform CapBay secures $20m in Series A round appeared first on DealStreetAsia.
Canadian Pension Giant Omers Invests In Sg's Orion Credit Capital
The investment will help OMERS expand its mid-market credit portfolio in Asia. The post Canadian pension giant OMERS invests in SG's Orion Credit Capital appeared first on DealStreetAsia.
Long-term Bonds A 'senseless' Speculative Trade: Hedge Fund Manager, Banking & Finance - The Business Times
Hello, your email is unverified. Please confirm for access to all your SPH accounts. RESEND VERIFICATION EMAIL BILLIONAIRE Paul Singer has a warning for his fellow investors: 1970s-style inflation can happen again, and almost nobody is ready for it. The hedge fund manager - a frequent critic of US monetary policy - said in an interview on Grant Williams's podcast that the combination of "trillions and trillions" of dollars in Covid-19 relief spending, wage pressures and rock-bottom interest rates has the potential to shock markets.
Cybersecurity Startup Spidersilk Raises $2.25M To Help Prevent Data Breaches - Techcrunch
Dubai-based cybersecurity startup SpiderSilk has raised $2.25 million in a pre-Series A round, led by venture firms Global Ventures and STV. In the past two years, SpiderSilk has discovered some of the biggest data breaches: Blind, the allegedly anonymous social network that exposed private complaints by Silicon Valley employees; a lab leaked highly sensitive Samsung [...]
World's Biggest Hedge-fund Manager 'thrilled' With Biden's Inauguration Speech But Still Believes America's On 'brink Of A Terrible Civil War'
Back in early December, Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, sounded the alarm on class and power struggles that are tearing the country apart. It hasn't improved much since then, apparently.
Big Us Funds Stake Claim On Quarter Of Kuaishou's $5.4bn Ipo - Nikkei Asia
HONG KONG -- Major U.S. fund managers including BlackRock and Fidelity are among 10 cornerstone investors in Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou Technology's $5.4 billion initial public offering, at a time when the relationship between the world's two largest economies is at its lowest point in decades. U.S.-based institutional investors have agreed to invest $1.39 billion, or a quarter of the entire offering by the Tencent Holdings-backed company, according to a term sheet seen by Nikkei Asia.
Kuaishou, Backed By Gic And Temasek, Seeks $7.2B In Biggest Tech Ipo Since Uber, Companies & Markets News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
January 25, 2021 3:44 PMThe short video start-up is selling 365 million shares at HK$105 to HK$115 each. : HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Kuaishou Technology, the operator of China's most popular video service after ByteDance's Douyin, is seeking to raise as much as US$5.4 billion (S$7.2 billion) in the world's biggest internet initial public offering since Uber Technologies. The short video start-up, backed by Tencent Holdings, is selling 365 million shares at HK$105 to HK$115 each, according to terms of the deal obtained by Bloomberg News.