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Casper | January 27, 2020

Casper Sleep Inc, the online mattress retailer whose investors include actor Leonardo DiCaprio and rapper 50 Cent, expects its initial public offering valuation to be well below the roughly $1 billion it commanded in the last funding round. In a regulatory filing on Monday, the company said it expects the offering of 9.6 million shares to be priced between $17 and $19 per share. At the top end of the range, the IPO will raise $182.4 million and give the firm a valuation of $768 million. Casper w...

SoftBank | February 24, 2020

SoftBank on Monday led a new funding round of $165 million in California-based Karius and invested $100 million in New York-headquartered AI company Behavox, as the technology giant builds a portfolio under its second Vision Fund. The two deals come at a time of intense investor scrutiny into SoftBank’s investments. The Japanese company earlier this month reported a second straight quarter of losses at its first Vision Fund, pushing Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son to scale back his s...

Cision PR Newswire | August 19, 2020

Factor, the leader in next-generation solutions for complex legal work at scale, today announced a significant new investment to be provided by Carrick Capital Partners (Carrick), an investment firm focused on software and software-enabled businesses with over $1B in assets under management. As part of the deal, Carrick would be multiplying their original investment to become the majority shareholder of Factor. The deal, expected to close by October 2020, represents one of the biggest net new in...

WeWork | February 11, 2020

WeWork on Tuesday brought forward its target of becoming free cash flow positive by a year to 2022 as Chairman Marcelo Claure pushes ahead with his five-year turnaround plan aimed at boosting valuation and winning back investor trust. The office sharing start-up, which has gone through a meltdown as its public offering imploded last year, also said it expects to record its first ever $1-billion revenue quarter this year. The company aims to achieve free cash flow of over $1 billion by 2024. As p...