{"id":47064,"date":"2015-03-23T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47064"},"modified":"2015-03-23T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:01:19","slug":"dizzying-pre-ipo-tech-values-spurred-by-rush-of-hedge-fund-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/dizzying-pre-ipo-tech-values-spurred-by-rush-of-hedge-fund-money.html","title":{"rendered":"Dizzying Pre-IPO Tech Values Spurred by Rush of Hedge-Fund Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A flood of money from unconventional sources has sent valuations of late-stage technology startups, including Uber Technologies Inc. and Snapchat Inc., to levels that haven\u2019t been seen since before the dot-com crash.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and mutual funds that once shunned venture-style deals are flocking to the market\u2019s hottest corner, paying 15 to 18 times projected sales for the year ahead in recent private-funding rounds, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. That compares with 10 to 12 times five years ago for the priciest companies, one said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-03-23\/dizzying-pre-ipo-tech-values-spurred-by-rush-of-hedge-fund-money\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A flood of money from unconventional sources has sent valuations of late-stage technology startups, including Uber Technologies Inc. and Snapchat Inc., to levels that haven\u2019t been seen since before the dot-com crash. Hedge funds and mutual funds that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47065,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions\/47065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}