‘This feels like 1999’: Global start-up funding frenzy fuels fears of a bubble

CNBC2021-07-13

In March last year, a top venture capital firm described Covid-19 as the "black swan of 2020." "Private financings could soften significantly, as happened in 2001 and 2009," Sequoia Capital told ...

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2021-07-13
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Time to burst? ??
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2021-07-13
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A good reminder of lessons to be learnt from dotcom bubble.
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FOMOBe Fearful When Others Are Greedy
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Private tech valuations are getting \"more and more distant from reality\" due to a \"fear of missing out,\" Hoxton Ventures' Kanji said.\nIana Dimitrova, CEO of U.K. fintech start-up OpenPayd, said her firm is in the process of raising money. \"We have investors saying, 'You're asking too small a ticket, we only write $100 million-plus tickets,'\" Dimitrova told CNBC.\nSome investors have \"very limited understanding\" of OpenPayd's software, which lets other companies offer financial services, but are making offers \"simply because it's now the space to be in.\"\nFintech companies represented 22% of global venture funding in the second quarter, according to CB Insights.\n\"Investors are increasingly writing higher and higher checks,\" Dimitrova continued. \"Frankly, I see that as detrimental to the long-term sustainability of our industry because businesses are not focused on generating value, they're focused on burning and deploying cash.\"\nA low interest rate environment has led to a huge amount of \"dry powder\" being deployed in risky venture bets, she added.\nEurope's tech boom\nThere are a number of differences between today and the dot-com bubble of 1999, according to Kanji. 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