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Fox Business

Why did Netflix lose subscribers?

April 20, 2022

Lead Edge Capital founding and managing partner Mitchell Green told ‘Varney & Co.’ that Netflix lost subscribers after an ‘acceleration’ during the COVID-19 pandemic due to people now spending their time and...

TechCrunch

Lead Edge Capital just closed its newest fund with an astonishing $2 billion (nearly)

April 6, 2022

It used to take a while to amass $5 billion in assets under management. Not so for Lead Edge Capital, a 12-year-old California- and New York-based growth-equity firm that just surpassed that...

Bloomberg TV

Lead Edge Capital’s $1.95 Billion for Growth-Equity Bets

April 6, 2022

Lead Edge Capital Founding Partner Mitchell Green joins Emily Chang for an exclusive interview on raising $1.95 billion for its largest fund to date, to make bets on software, internet, consumer, and...

Bloomberg

Lead Edge Capital Raises $1.95 Billion for Growth-Equity Bets

April 6, 2022

Lead Edge Capital raised $1.95 billion for its largest fund to date, to make bets on software, internet, consumer, and tech-enabled service companies. The firm, which has offices in New York and...

CNBC - Squawk Box

Alibaba, Tencent are ‘certainly cheap,’ says Lead Edge Capital’s Mitchell Green

March 21, 2022

Mitchell Green, founding partner of Lead Edge Capital, joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to break down the volatile week for Chinese tech stocks....

StrictlyVC Download Podcast

Crossover Investor Mitchell Green Sees Opportunity in This Week’s Market Turmoil

January 31, 2022

Connie & Alex chat with Mitchell Green, founder of Lead Edge Capital. Mitchell discusses the attractive opportunities in the public market, China, the Lead Edge 8 criteria, and the way LEC competes and wins deals....

TechCrunch

Crossover investors are turning their focus to public stocks, say crossover investor

January 28, 2022

By Connie Loizos A lot of public market investors began elbowing their way into the world of venture-backed startups roughly a decade ago, and the ripple effects have been obvious. Think faster...

CNBC - Squawk Box

Lead Edge Capital’s Green lays out software stocks to watch as Nasdaq slips

January 24, 2022

Mitchell Green, founding partner at Lead Edge Capital, joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to break down moves in the Nasdaq ahead of the open on Monday....

CNBC

China’s a ‘massive untapped opportunity’, but you play by their rules, says Lead Edge Capital founder

December 6, 2021

Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital founder, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to break down what investors need to know about China’s tech crackdown....

Bloomberg

Biotech Platform Benchling Valued at $6.1 Billion in New Funding

November 18, 2021

Benchling, a maker of software for the biotechnology industry, is valued at $6.1 billion after a funding round led by Altimeter Capital Management and new investor Franklin Templeton. ...

TechCrunch

Workiz raises $40M on a surge of interest for productivity tools aimed at home services teams

November 18, 2021

Workiz — which provides tools to home services teams to help with scheduling appointments, estimating costs, invoicing for work and more — has raised $40 million, funding that it will use to continue...

Silicon Slopes

Weave Raises $120 Million through an NYSE IPO

November 18, 2021

Lehi, Utah-based Weave Communications priced its stock at $24/share yesterday, sold 5 million shares of stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:WEAV), and raised $120 million in the process in its Initial Public Offering (net of any...

CNBC

Toast surges 56% in NYSE debut after IPO valued restaurant-tech company at $20 billion

September 25, 2021

Toast shares soared 56% in their New York Stock Exchange debut Wednesday after the provider of technology to restaurants priced its IPO above its expected range....

Insider

The 50 most important VCs in New York, according to other VCs

September 10, 2021

A former alpine ski racer, Mitchell Green cut his teeth in venture capital at Bessemer Venture Partners. Now he has an arsenal of hits under his own firm, Lead Edge Capital, which...

CNBC - Squawk Box

Why Lead Edge Capital’s Green remains bullish on China in the long term

September 10, 2021

Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital founding partner, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss if he’d call China investable as the crackdown continues. ...

Bloomberg

Sequoia-Backed Grafana Labs Reaches $3 Billion Valuation

November 18, 2021

Software maker Grafana Labs has received a new investment that values the startup at $3 billion, a tenfold increase from two years ago....

Forbes

LaunchDarkly Raises $200 Million, Hits $3 Billion Valuation To Prevent Technical Catastrophes

August 11, 2021

Today, seven years after LaunchDarkly was founded, the Oakland, California-based startup has a $3 billion valuation after closing on $200 million in series D financing led by Lead Edge Capital, a growth-equity...

Insider

19 of the most promising retail startups of 2021, according to top VCs

June 22, 2021

LEC Portfolio Company Material Bank, makes the list, nominated by Mitchell Green. Material Bank is a marketplace for design materials that ships samples overnight from its warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee....

Reuters

Exclusive: Uber investor Lead Edge Capital raises $150 million for public equity fund

June 16, 2021

Lead Edge Capital, which has backed Uber Technologies Inc and Alibaba Group, has raised $150 million through a new fund to invest in publicly listed software and internet companies, the venture said...

Insider

46 of the most promising startups of 2021, according to top VCs

June 11, 2021

Insider asked top venture capitalists to name the most promising US startups so far in 2021. This includes Lead Edge portfolio companies Material Bank & Sanity nominated by Founding Partner Mitchell Green...

CNN

Everyone you know is talking about crypto. Uh oh

June 11, 2021

"People say it's different this time. No, it isn't. Many cryptos may go up like an escalator and down like a rock."...

Business Insider

Startup employees can still sell their stock if their company goes public through a SPAC. But the rules may be different, experts say

May 11, 2021

If someone gets hired to work at a startup, they're probably going to end up with stock options as part of their pay. That company's stock can be valuable if it goes...

Forbes

The Latest Hot Marketplace, Material Bank, Raises $100 Million To Source Architectural And Construction Products—With Help From Robots

May 12, 2021

Today, his startup, Material Bank, is the latest fast-growing marketplace to get love from investors. The New York- and Florida-based company raised $100 million in venture funding at a nearly $1 billion...

Forbes

Biotech R&D Startup Benchling Hits $4 Billion Valuation As The Company Starts Laying Groundwork For An IPO

May 12, 2021

enchling, the leading life sciences R&D cloud, has raised $200 million in Series E funding led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and joined by Altimeter Capital, Byers Capital and Elad Gil. Existing...