Your Pitch – Numbers, Numbers, Numbers and Five Million Dollars

If I had a dollar for every pitch that said the Company needs five million dollars of investment, I might have five million dollars by now. This $5 million number must be trained somewhere, because it seems everyone seeks it. It will also...

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Your Investment Pitch: Know Your Strategy

Investors are just like other humans; creatures of habit. They tend to invest in what they know, and tend to quickly reject anything outside of their comfort zone. Mind you, this is a general analysis and there are certainly...

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Your Financing Pitch: Know Your Lender

A common misconception is that someone who gives you a loan is like a person who hands you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and asks for it back when it is raining. To dispel this myth, entrepreneurs need to understand that the...

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As a former CEO and Investment Banker, Mr. Schissler has BEEN A KEY COMPONENT TO DOZENS OF TRANSACTIONS. Today as an investor, he listens to approximately ten pitches of new investments per week (estimated over 500 per year). The purpose of this blog is to provide entrepreneurs insight on the good, bad, and ugly of pitching their business to investors.

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Largest Green Companies- ESG and Green Business

These companies, on average, emit 47 times less greenhouse gas emissions than their Russell 1000 peers.They use 3.7 times more renewable energy.From last year, the share of companies tying executive compensation to environmental achievements jumped from 13% to about...

Apple set to become first $3 Trillion Dollar company

Original article can be found at foxbusiness.com Apple is on track to become the first company worth $3 trillion as soon as Monday. The maker of iPhones and Macs ended last week at a record high, advancing over 8% for the month thus far to a market cap of $2.94...

Consumer prices likely surged last month at their fastest pace in about 30 years.

Original article can be found at www.cnbc.com The consumer price index is expected to have risen nearly 6% in October, the most in three decades. Inflation could remain elevated into early next year, as rents and other costs continue to increase. The Labor Department...

Private Placements

TRACON Pharmaceuticals Private Placement

Original article posted at www.globenewswire.com TRACON Pharmaceuticals Announces Closing of Previously Announced Private Placement and Appointment of Ted Wang, Ph.D., of Puissance Capital Management, to Board of Directors TRACON Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:TCON), a...

NetCents Secures Up to $5 Million in Financing

Original News Release posted at StockHouse NetCents Technology Inc. ("NetCents" or the "Company") (CSE: NC) (Frankfurt: 26N), has entered into a non-binding agreement for a drawdown equity facility of up to $5 million with Alumina Partners (Ontario) Ltd., a subsidiary...

ADC Therapeutics Announces Closing of $200 Million Private Financing

Original News Release posted at BusinessWire ADC Therapeutics (ADCT), an oncology drug discovery and development company that specializes in the development of proprietary Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) targeting major cancers, today announced that it has raised $200...

Equity Financing

Perlara Raises $7.4M in Equity Financing

Original Article posted at finsmes.com Perlara, a South San Francisco, CA-based drug discovery platform company, closed a $7.4M round of equity financing. Backers included Pivotal Capital Alpha, Al-Hamra Group, Radical Investments, Homebrew Ventures, Haystack Fund and...

Ursa Space Systems Secures $7 Million Series A Financing

Original Article posted at Via Satellite Ursa Space Systems announced it closed a $7 million Series A equity financing from financial, security, and strategic investors. Paladin Capital Group led the financing, which included participation from New Enterprise...

ArcheMedX Raises $2.5M in Equity Financing

Original Article posted at FINSMES ArcheMedX, a Charlottesville, VA-based healthcare informatics and e-learning technology company, raised $2.5m in equity financing. The round was led by early-stage investors Jaffray Woodriff and Greyson Williams. The company intends...

Debt Financing

Grab raises US$700M in debt financing

Original article posted at E27.co Grab partners with Singapore's SMRT to build a fleet of eco-friendly vehicles... Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments company, Grab, today announced that it has secured up to US$700 million in debt...

BlueVine Expands Reach With up to $130 Million in New Debt Financing

Original News Release posted at PRNewsWire BlueVine is expanding its reach in online business lending with new debt financing of up to $130 million and a new additional line of credit product that allows business owners to make monthly, instead of weekly, payments,...

M-KOPA secures US$80 million in commercial debt funding

Original Article appears at PVTech.org Off-grid solar company M-KOPA Solar has secured US$80 million in committed debt financing, which will be used over the next three years to provide financing for pay-as-you-go PV projects in one million homes in Africa. A number...

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