Growth Funding Recap for April 2021
Growthink Capital Research tracked $10.8 billion in new venture funding in April 2021. This is down from the $15.4 billion in funding we tracked in March, but significantly above funding amounts in January ($8.8 billion) and February ($8.5 billion). The month’s biggest funding event belonged to SambaNova Systems which raised $676 million. The company develops […]
Growth Funding Recap for March 2021
Growthink Capital Research tracked $15.4 billion in new venture funding in March 2021, a significant increase from the $8.5 billion we tracked in February. The month’s biggest funding event belonged to the food/alcohol/snack delivery company GoPuff, which raised $1.15 billion as a follow-up round to the $380 million it raised in October. In a typical […]
Growthink Capital Completes 2nd Successful Financing for eBikes Leader
Growthink Capital, our wholly owned FINRA / SIPC broker-dealer investment bank, is pleased to announce it acted as the placement agent for SUPER73 in a $20 million growth capital raise with Volition Capital. “This is the second completed growth financing for SUPER73 that Growthink Capital has facilitated,” said LeGrand Crewse, SUPER73 CEO. “We so appreciate how […]
How to Understand and Benefit from Financial Statements
Recently I was asked about financial statements, so I thought I’d put my answers to the 4 most important questions I answered in this post. 1. What is the purpose of financial statements? Why do they matter? Financial statements are critical in understanding the financial health of your business, in forecasting future results and in […]
February 2021 Growth Funding Recap
Growthink Capital Research tracked $8.5 billion in new venture funding in February 2021, about the same as the $8.8 billion we tracked in January. The month’s biggest funding event belonged to Databricks, the data analytics and AI firm that raised $1 billion. Other $100 million+ funding events in February included the following: Plume ($270 million) […]
January 2021 Growth Funding Recap
Growthink Capital Research tracked $8.8 billion in new venture funding in January 2021, up from $5.1 billion in December. The month’s biggest funding event belonged to very much “in the news” discount brokerage firm Robinhood, which on Thursday announced it was raising “more than $1 billion” to fund its torrid growth. Other $100 million+ funding […]
December 2020 Growth Funding Recap
First of all, Happy New Year and here’s to a great 2021 for all of us! Growthink Capital, our investment banking arm, just released its analysis of growth funding events that occurred during December. It tracked $5.1 billion in new venture funding in December 2020, down from $6.8 billion in November. The month’s biggest funding […]
November 2020 Growth Funding Recap
$6.8 billion in new venture funding was invested during November 2020 according to our investment banking arm Growthink Capital, up from $6.4 billion in October. The month’s biggest funding event belonged to two companies which both raised $500 million, Relativity Space an aerospace company that’s designing, developing, and building 3D printed rockets and Nuro a […]
October 2020 Growth Funding Recap
Growthink Capital, our investment banking arm, just released its analysis of growth funding events that occurred during October. It tracked $6.4 billion in new venture funding in October 2020, up from $5.7 billion in September. The month’s biggest funding event belonged to the food/alcohol/snack delivery company Gopuff, which raised $380 million. Other $100 million+ funding […]
Coronavirus Pandemic Yields Largest Increase in American Entrepreneurship Ever
It’s hard to be excited when talking about today’s coronavirus pandemic, when millions of Americans have been infected and over 200,000 have died. However, our research shows the coronavirus pandemic has been a massive boon to entrepreneurship. And this could help our economy both recover and thrive for years to come. The coronavirus really took […]
September 2020 Trends in Growth Capital Financings
Our investment banking arm – Growthink Capital – just released its assessment of growth capital financings that occurred during September 2020. We tracked $5.7 billion in new venture funding in September 2020, with the month’s biggest funding event being the online payment platform Klarna raising $650 million. Other $100 million+ funding events in September included the […]
4 Simple Steps to Developing Business Systems
There are several reasons why you’d want to build systems and processes in your business. The main ones are: 1. Precision and consistency. By having set business processes for how tasks should be completed, you will get consistent quality results. 2. Time and money savings. When employees know precisely how to do something and do […]
