{"id":77242,"date":"2021-02-15T02:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77242"},"modified":"2021-02-15T02:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:40:20","slug":"spacs-used-to-be-a-joke-in-silicon-valley-now-theyre-going-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2021\/spacs-used-to-be-a-joke-in-silicon-valley-now-theyre-going-mainstream.html","title":{"rendered":"SPACs used to be a joke in Silicon Valley \u2014 now they\u2019re going mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.battery.com\/our-team\/member\/roger-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Lee<\/a> of Battery Ventures says that \u201cSPAC\u201d used to be a \u201cbad four-letter word\u201d in Silicon Valley. Now, the board of every high-profile start-up is discussing special purpose acquisition companies as a legitimate way to go public, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvp.com\/team\/jeff-crowe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Crowe<\/a> of Norwest Venture Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the eyes of Lux Capital co-founder <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/luxcapital.com\/team\/peter-hebert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Hebert<\/a>, SPACs are \u201cstealing from the 2021 IPO calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/13\/spacs-long-shunned-in-silicon-valley-going-mainstream-in-tech.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Roger Lee of Battery Ventures says that \u201cSPAC\u201d used to be a \u201cbad four-letter word\u201d in Silicon Valley. Now, the board of every high-profile start-up is discussing special purpose acquisition companies as a legitimate way to go public, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77242","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77243,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77242\/revisions\/77243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}