For the past 15 years, VCs have captured most of the financial upside of tech companies before their IPOs

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Private equity and venture capital investments are typically evaluated over five- to ten-year horizons

Silvergate went public with an IPO in November 2019, pricing its shares at $12

Silvergate's 2019 IPO was described as disappointing due to weak initial demand

Andrew Webley was part of the team that listed Hargreaves Lansdowne on the stock market

Smarter Webco can raise capital by selling equity, borrowing, or issuing preferred equity

Smarter Webco's IPO raised an additional £1 million, for a combined £2.1 million

Smarter Webco has never conducted a fundraising round at a discount to its market price

Smarter Webco's IPO was allocated 50% to retail investors and 50% to small investors

Smarter Webco issued warrants to investors during its pre-IPO funding round

Smarter Webco raised £1.1 million in a pre-IPO funding round

Smarter Webco was listed on the Aquis market in London in April 2025

An initial public offering for the company Anthropic was expected before the end of 2024

Having companies like Anthropic and OpenAI be publicly traded is considered healthy for the tech market

The public market is presented as the only source of capital large enough to fund AI 'hyperscalers'

AI companies like Anthropic are planning IPOs despite losing billions of dollars annually

Bitget's plan to IPO in approximately three years remains unchanged by the hack

Over 400 billion in venture capital has been invested in AI startups in the US in the current year

Venture capital is currently flowing into AI-related companies instead of Bitcoin startups

Relai raised a 7-figure bridge round in 2024, a rare event for a Bitcoin company in the current market

Fundraising for Bitcoin companies is extremely difficult in the current bear market