Hi there,
Here are the top 10 research briefs of the past week and 10 notable deals.
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Notable Deals
We tracked 574 financings and exits last week. Here are 10 notable ones in everything from women's luxury footwear to water purification systems.
- SunRun ($195M line of credit) - Competitor to Elon Musk's SolarCity
- Stuart Weitzman (acq) - Coach buys women's luxury footwear line for $574M
- Wanda E-commerce ($260M) - Baidu & Tencent are minority owners
- WaterLogic (acq) - Point-of-use water purification systems acquired for $185M
- Baixing ($100M) - Chinese Craigslist
- MongoDB ($80M) - We had this one before it hit media (#humblebrag)
- Privateer Holdings ($75M) - VCs get into the cannabis game
- Glassdoor ($70M) - Online job review site joins the unicorn club
- Seres Health ($65M) - Clinical stage therapeutics company
- TravelFusion - UK travel content aggregator valued at $160M after funding
Happy Saturday,
Anand
@asanwal
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