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Through the fragile public subscription market, the uncertainty in the tariffs, and the stock market tensions, these are not easy times to be the financial manager of the late technology company.
On this unstable background, I sat last week with Magazine Magazine Managers, Vercel and CRIBL at the San Francisco office in CRV, one of the oldest project companies in Silicon Valley and an early investor in all three startups.
“I expect a lot of uncertainty,” said Daniel Kang, Mercury Financial Director, Fintech, said. Its evaluation has doubled to $ 3.5 billion After collecting $ 300 million in the last financing round. “There is a great impact on what is happening in the capital.”
Kang said that all the disturbances mean that the Malians should be smarter.
Martin Abrahamsen, the financial manager of the Persel, was more optimistic. He does not expect a stagnation this year and expects the stock market to be gathered in the fall.
“I think a lot of this will be fed by some of the investments that we see in artificial intelligence, and we really see them for some of our products that were not even here a year ago.” “I am very optimistic about the rest of this year and beyond.”
After the announcement of President Donald Trump Comprehensive definitions On imports from other countries on April 2, investors were panic The health detailed Public subscription plans were stopped.
A stand turned to be short -term.
The markets were recovered after Trump retreated to the harshest definitions and said he would not shoot at the Federal Reserve Speaker Jerome Powell. Banker tells companies to the public while the window is open.
This week, the Hinge Health shares jumped by 17 % in its first appearance on the market after Etoro, an Israeli commercial platform, appeared for the first time in Nasdak, and opened 34 % from the public subscription price. (Klarna’s public subscription is still suspended after the company reported increasing losses.)
Abrahamson does not believe that companies should wait for a better market to come to public subscription; Instead, they should focus on what they can control.
“There was a fear of getting away in the silicon valley,” he said. “The great companies can be public even if there is no hot market there. If you are a great company, you will always be a chance.”
When asked about the reason for the absence of a few companies in public, the committee members said that companies do not want to deal with a headache as they are a public company when there is a lot of private financing. There are also minimal pressure on the public subscription from investors and employees, according to Zakari Johnson, the financial manager of CRIBL, a data management solution that raised $ 319 million last year, rated $ 3.5 billion.
“They understand that we are trying to build something that will be a generation,” Johnson said. “When we think about how to build this company, it is really about focusing on that durability and sustainability of growth.”
Johnson hopes that progress in artificial intelligence can make CRIBL more attractive to investors when it is announced. Everyone was recently commissioned in his executive team to reach the Amnesty International initiative.
“There is some work to be done, but I am optimistic that we can actually get some real revenues at the end of this year,” he said. “We are still in early artificial intelligence roles.”
