Rocket Lab Announces Plans to Go Public Via SPAC at $4.1B Valuation
You get one chance at life right? Might as well go big then, and hard to get much bigger than Rocket Lab. This extraordinary team has achieved a long list of accomplishments in a short period of time. Rocket puns aside (you were waiting), it has been a remarkable ride so far.
Rocket Lab Begins Trading on Nasdaq
Joins Spire as the second Promus Ventures portfolio company to trade in the span of a week publicly. Congratulations to Pete Beck and the Rocket Lab team on their first day of trading as a public company today (NASDAQ: RKLB).
S&P Global to Acquire Kensho for $550M — Promus Ventures Backstory
We are excited to announce that Promus Ventures has led the Series A round for Halter, a US- and New Zealand-based team automating farm management.
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Satellite Services: Land of Opportunity for Some, Valley of Death for Many
Considered by many financial and strategic investors as an attractive market, with significant opportunities for value creation, the deployment and monetization of a satellite constellation come with several risks.
Saving Private Startup (A War Many VCs Won’t Fight)
What is the best question founders can ask a VC before bringing them onto their cap table? Easy: “Tell me about how you helped a startup through difficult times, even through a shut down. Could you intro me to that founder so I can get their thoughts?”
Saying “No”
I recently finished a two-week process with a great early-stage founding team that was solving an long-standing, exciting consumer-facing problem within a large market. I initially briefly met the founder and his entire team. We had two follow-up 45-minute conversations. He was prompt in our discussions, sent m
