N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. As businesses grow and adapt to shifting market demands, the strength of the leadership team often dictates a company’s ability to scale and succeed.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
As Reid explained it, “total landed cost” refers to the duties, taxes, import and shipping fees someone from another country might pay when purchasing items from the U.S. Our diligence said Zonos is the only player to take the data that exists out there and make sense of it,” MacLean said.
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Crunchbase News
APRIL 10, 2024
By Nicolas Sauvage Due diligence has made a comeback. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours on due diligence and call 10 references. The assumption was often that someone else had already done the diligence. With that, high-quality diligence has returned, and it is both art and a science.
TechCrunch
MARCH 7, 2023
However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. Private market valuations, at any point in time, are not only a reflection of a team’s hard work and progress, but are also impacted by the financing environment.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
.” Eventually, the company closed a $30 million Series A round led by Index Ventures partner Nina Achadjian, as the duo discussed on the latest episode of TechCrunch Live , our weekly program featuring entrepreneurs, developers and investors. Prepare for due diligence. References. How do you scale?
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
But with the pandemic bringing in utter confusion and panic, companies downsized as investors re-strategized, and due diligence slowed during the first few months of the year. This can be attributed to an increase in seed rounds (up 88% from 2019) and bridge rounds due to shortage of cash amidst a pandemic-induced lockdown.
TechCrunch
APRIL 25, 2023
But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. And if you’ve added “AI” to your pitch deck only to make it more appealing, here’s some more bad news: FOMO is passé, and due diligence is the new black.
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