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Spotify Is Worth $8.2 Billion; Who's Invested?
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 10:05am | 361Online music provider Spotify recently hired Goldman Sachs to help it raise new funding -- $526 million, according to Rhe Wall Street Journal. The move could be aimed at fending off competing service Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which launched its own music...
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Barrington: Investors Want To Own GSVC, But Without The Large Twitter Exposure
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 9:20am | 359In a report published Tuesday, Barrington Research analyst Jeff Houston commented on GSV Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GSVC), noting that investors want to own shares but without the fund's large exposure to Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR). At the end of GSV Capital's first quarter, the company was invested in...
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Why GoDaddy Is The 'Anti-Twitter'
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 2:41pm | 710Shares of GoDaddy Inc (NYSE: GDDY) jumped 30 percent after the company had its initial public offering Wednesday, prompting some investors to ask a simple question: why? Is this the dot-com superstar investors have been craving, or is this proof that the perceived tech bubble is real? Sean...
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How To Get A Piece Of Lyft, Spotify, Dropbox And Other Startups Before Their IPOs
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 2:02pm | 1006Before Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) filed their IPOs, GSV Capital Corp (NASDAQ: GSVC) allowed investors to get a piece of these promising startups. Michael Moe, co-founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of GSV Capital, started the company after a long career involving...
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Would You Buy Twitter's IPO?
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 1:03pm | 686In what can only be described as the biggest surprise announcement of the week, Twitter announced that it has confidentially submitted an S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned IPO. It did not take more than a few hours for this became the most talked about story in technology...
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GSV Capital Sell Off Overdone?
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 3:55pm | 201GSV Capital Corp (NASDAQ: GSVC) is having yet another down day after Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) infamous IPO last Friday. The company is widely known for holding pre-IPO shares of Facebook and many investors were expecting a rally in Facebook shares to make GSV Capital's stock to go through the roof...
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GSV Capital CEO: Facebook Only 4% of Overall Holdings
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 4:54pm | 544A Silicon Valley based investment firm, GSV Capital (NASDAQ: GSVC), which is well known for holding Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) pre-IPO shares is down significantly since the social media giant went public last Friday. Traders were using GSV Capital's shares as a way to invest in Facebook before its...
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How to Trade Goldman Sachs and GSV Capital Ahead of Today's Big Facebook Announcement
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 12:07pm | 831There has been a ton of hype for what has been deemed an “awesome” new feature coming to Facebook this week. Whatever that feature is, the world won't have to wait much longer: the social networking giant is scheduled to make an announcement at 1:00 p.m. EDT today. The latest rumor suggests that...