DiffuseTap: IPO vs. Venture Capital

"You want to have a good base of supporters upon listing. If you’ve got a tight structure at the time of listing, the share price can be traded at a bit of a premium. That helps the business use its stock as currency to roll up assets at a premium, or raise money on the equity market at a premium." - Shafin Diamond Tejani, Victory Square Technologies. "We wouldn't qualify for the traditional SPAC requirements, and we weren't really looking for something even like that... And I still don't know the answer as to why startups don't understand that this is a path to access capital, to access growth and get liquidity, as opposed to the traditional VC route. It's not a sure path to guaranteed success, but it's a viable path." - Matt Bailey, GameOn Last time on DiffuseTap, Shafin Diamond Tejani, CEO at Victory Square Technologies, and Matt Bailey, Founder and CEO at GameOn talked about about going public on a global scale – in baby steps – and why some startups might forgo the traditional partnership with a SPAC or VC and decide to take the IPO route, instead. Listen to the full audio or download last week’s event transcript here. If you want to make new friends from the Diffuse Fund Ecosystem, email [email protected].