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Want financing and exit trend data for 190+ industries at the click of the mouse? Everything from the Internet of Things to Surgical Devices to Bio-energy. Discover the most active investors/acquirers, average and median deal sizes by stage, average time to exit and more. No more Excel downloading, pivot tables and vlookups. Check out Industry Analytics here.
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Media Companies Complete Record Level of Venture Deals in 2013
Digital media startups wanted. As the media industry undergoes a massive digital facelift, media corporations from Conde Nast to Time Warner are pursuing venture deals in tech more aggressively than ever. Since 2010, eight U.S.-based media corporations have participated in 161 deals totaling over $2B. See the sectors and geographies where media corporates are looking for startup investments here.
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Twitter M&A Trends: 31 Acquisitions To Date, Pace of M&A Accelerating
The lead-up to $TWTR. Twitter has acquired or acqui-hired 31 startups ranging from social TV analytics platforms to crash reporting solutions. See the full list of Twitter acquisitions as well as when and where Twitter tends to acquire companies and the investors they tend to acquire startups from here.
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Will Twitter Get More Acquisitive Post-IPO?
Make it rain? With #TwitterIPO now trading, will Twitter's frenetic M&A pace continue? Since their public offerings, Facebook and Zynga have completed 48% and 73% fewer acquisitions than their time as private companies. Check out the M&A stats of other ballyhooed consumer tech IPOs to see how Twitter might behave now that its public here.
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It's Definitely a Marathon: VC-Backed Tech IPOs Take 7 Years from First Financing
Analyzing time to exit trends in tech VC. From its first funding until IPO, Twitter took 77 months (6.4 years). But is that much time the norm or atypical? Using CB Insights VC data, we found that the time between first funding and IPO in tech has increased significantly while the average time to a tech M&A exit has remained range-bound since 2007. See the full analysis on tech VC time-to-exit trends here.
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