✨ Fueling the Next Wave: From First Raise to Secondaries and Exits💡 Conversation 2: For Investors & OperatorsGain perspective from leading funds backing the next wave of AI innovation — plus insights on secondary markets and exits.Featuring• Lu Zhang — Founder & Managing Partner, Fusion Fund• Sharon S. Huang — Vice President, Tau Ventures• Praveen Akkiraju — Managing Director, Insight Partners👉 Moderated by Louis Lehot, Partner,
Next week, on September 17th, Foley & Lardner LLP is proud to be co-hosting the next Signals of TEDAI salon in partnership with Obvious Ventures and Canopy! Our theme? — “Fueling the Next Wave: From First Raise, to Secondaries and Exits.”This intimate gathering will bring together founders building AI-native companies, investors fueling the next wave of innovation, and
Excited to be co-hosting the next Signals of TEDAI salon in partnership with Obvious Ventures and Canopy on September 17th!Our theme this time around is: “Fueling the Next Wave: From First Raise, to Secondaries and Exits.”This intimate gathering will bring together founders building AI-native companies, investors fueling the next wave of innovation, and operators scaling teams
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The lazy days of summer seem to be behind us as merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is getting a jump start. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal cites late July/early August as having “the highest-volume week for mergers and acquisitions for U.S. companies since 2021, according to LSEG.” This is an unexpected,
As a practicing M&A attorney representing both strategic acquirers and venture-backed targets, I have had a front row seat to the fundamental transformation of Silicon Valley’s exit landscape. The rise of acquihiring represents more than a market trend, it’s an evolutionary response to capital scarcity, talent wars, and regulatory uncertainty that demands sophisticated legal frameworks
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