CapLinked hits $10 billion in listed deals, opens to pro investors. CapLinked, an online platform that brings together companies and private individual investors, said it has eclipsed $10 billion in private deals listed on the platform since it launched a little over a year ago.
Now, it’s opening up the platform to professional investors with a new product called DealRocket that targets venture capitalists, private equity firms, angel investors and hedge funds. The $10 billion in listed deals means the amount of total money sought by companies looking to raise capital or sell assets. It’s unclear how many deals have actually closed and how much the transactions are worth. CapLinked — which was founded by PayPal’s first head of marketing Eric Jackson and Christopher Grey, the former managing director at a subsidiary of Emigrant Bank — has tried to bridge the gap between companies looking to find financing and private investors looking to support start-ups. CapLinked is now up to 90,000 accounts, a 4,000 percent increase since the beginning of the year. The Way Companies Are Getting Financed Is Completely Changing. There are lots of trends people have been talking about in tech financing--"superangels"; delayed IPOs; secondary market sales; and more.
But so far, few people have been putting the dots together: the entire financing landscape for companies is changing. And, excitingly, it's increasingly not just technology companies. There are many new financing options for growing companies that weren't available a decade ago. State of vc presentation.