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JANUARY 31, 2024

You are pivoting your business plan and results are yet uncertain. You are raising outside equity capital, or You just closed an investment round and need to manage cash smartly. Manufacturing, transportation, distribution, real estate and construction are very financially complex and require a specialty fractional CFO.

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APRIL 21, 2019

Uber announced late last week that it landed a $1 billion investment from Toyota, DENSO and the SoftBank Vision Fund. On Twitter , Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi announced the investment, saying the companies are jointly working toward “the future of mobility.” The investment gives Uber ATG a valuation of $7.25

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In an interview with the WSJ, founder Markus Villig said the company reached unicorn status in May when it raised $175 million, giving it a $1 billion valuation. The company plans to use the funding to grow during the next couple of years. Investors in the round included Daimler AG.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

billion is twice the company’s previous valuation of $1.1 “This new mode of transport is becoming a part of daily routines, and Lime is leading this space. The investment, the company said, will help fund growth in other areas. We will also continue investing in two critical areas: rider safety and city collaboration.”.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Ride-hailing company Grab , which recently announced a $2 billion expansion plan in Indonesia, said it was going to invest “several hundred million dollars” in Vietnam, according to a report by Reuters. The move illustrates Grab’s desire to put its investment dollars to work to continue expanding the company worldwide. .

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

At the current time, there are no plans to launch a scooter sharing service in the U.S. This means we’ll be able to help more people with their daily transportation problems.”. In May, it raised $175 million from Daimler, Didi Chuxing and other investors, giving it a valuation of $1 billion.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Raising salaries, more flexibility, and upskilling are a few of the options, and some companies are even doing biannual valuations and pay raises, something unheard of only a few years ago. 2022 is the year for CFOs to switch from survival mode to long term planning, and there is no doubt that financial automation is crucial in this process.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

million in Series A funding announced this week, Libra said it plans to roll out new apps and services for accounting, auditing and tax processes, according to Accounting Today. The Series A investment, provided by an unnamed European investor, follows $2 million in seed funding. billion valuation. InstaFreight. Thrive Global.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Valuation after this funding round is estimated at “well over $500 million,” the source said. Earlier this week, Ola announced plans to move into London after entering different parts of the U.K. 27), citing two sources. The rental service runs more than 17,000 electric and gasoline scooters in 36 Indian cities. cents) per km and Rs 1.5

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The advantage of Lyft getting there first is that it won’t be judged based on the valuation of Uber, which is a much bigger company. Jim Williams, chief investment officer of Creative Planning, said the IPO market is focused on growth, and that investors will assess both companies based on the total number of new riders and total rides.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Apple flipped a long-held policy in opening up the iPhone’s NFC chip to developers, Chase decided that it can afford to make its premier rewards card a bit less rewarding and Uber took a pass on an investment from Warren Buffet. Reports indicate that his company, Berkshire Hathaway , offered Uber a $3 billion investment earlier this year.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. per share in 2022.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We sat down with Oomf CEO Gavin Gray to take a peek behind the curtain on Oomf to learn about what it offers and its 2017 plans. As he struggled to find a non-Uber mode of transportation to get home, the idea for a shareable, accessible portable power source came to him. If no funding has been received, are there plans to seek funding?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. per share in 2022.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is expanding its grocery delivery services , and curbside pickup and convenience stores are being planned nationwide. According to Business Insider, Postmates was slow to raise its new round of financing, and DoorDash raised only a $600 million valuation.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

Ensuring Proper Inventory Valuation When inventory is not valued properly, turnover ratios return false information, affect cash, and cloud understanding of how investment in inventory is affecting the business. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand.

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MAY 7, 2020

The past several weeks have seen its estimated valuation halved, its planned 2020 IPO likely shelved and its headcount in the process of being radically reduced. Thus far, the firm has yet to comment on what its IPO plans will be in COVID-19’s wake. He wrote that the firm will likely only collect roughly half of the $4.8

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MARCH 18, 2019

Gett, a ride-hailing company that works with taxis, is planning an initial public offering later this year, The Financial Times reported. The company offers transportation through established taxi systems rather than the minicab model used by Uber and Lyft, and it expects to become profitable later this year. or yellow cabs in the U.S.,

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Now, we have driverless Ubers and Uber Fleet – both intended to disrupt/transform the transportation model even further. Anonymous sources claimed Walmart is looking to invest between $750 million and $1 billion in Flipkart, dependent on the direction of talks, as well as the startup’s overall value.

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JULY 21, 2020

“It’s become even more important that businesses take extra precautions to enhance the safety of their employees while commuting with corporate taxis — often seen as safer and more efficient alternatives than public transport,” the company said. In May 2019, Gett said it had raised $200 million , putting its valuation at $1.5

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. And being in the Washington DC area proved to be important.

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