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Ways that liquidity events can occur

SuperAngel.Fund

These milestones impact all shareholders, including the founders, the employees, and the angel investors/VCs who invested in them: 1. The startup is acquired outright by another company (M&A). Shareholders receive cash or a mix of cash and equity in the acquiring company. An old-fashioned IPO.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Has a Major Stake in This Hot IPO Stock. Should You Follow His Lead?

The Motley Fool

million daily active users, the company undoubtedly faces fierce competition among other social media applications. With an intense competitive landscape at its heels, all eyes are on Reddit's S-1 filing -- a major step as it gears up for its initial public offering (IPO). While Reddit's platform boasts 73.1

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Peter Bauer’s big bet on email: Mimecast’s journey from bootstrapped startup to email pioneer

Insight Partners

Both had built companies in South Africa before relocating, and both had enough cash in the bank to take a risk on something new. Becoming Europes market leader in email security The pair raised $10M from angel investors and launched Mimecast in 2003 with an early software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to protect, manage, and optimize email.