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Start-ups: Unicorns really do exist

Allar and Matt uncover the imaginative names for fast-growing new companies, from unicorns to gazelles, dragons and…cockroaches. A unicorn is a privately held company with a valuation of more than USD 1 billion When a company sells shares to the public...

An episode of the A Dictionary of Finance podcast, hosted by European Investment Bank, titled "Start-ups: Unicorns really do exist" was published on July 9, 2017 and runs 5 minutes.

July 9, 2017 ·5m · A Dictionary of Finance

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Allar and Matt uncover the imaginative names for fast-growing new companies, from unicorns to gazelles, dragons and…cockroaches.A unicorn is a privately held company with a valuation of more than USD 1 billionWhen a company sells shares to the public, it’s called a dragon if it’s worth more than the entire size of the venture capital fund that first invested in itIf you like fairy stories, you’ll enjoy the work of Helmut Krämer-Eis, chief economist of the European Investment Fund. You probably don’t associate finance with fairy stories, but Helmut points out in this episode of A Dictionary of Finance that investors have turned to mythical creatures to describe flourishing new companies.Perhaps when you risk your money with an investment, you need to believe in the company just as much as a five-year-old child listening to a story of flying horses needs to believe in magic? In any case, Helmut explains what kinds of companies can be called a dragon or a unicorn, as well as a gazelle. Allar weighs in with the definition of a cockroach company…There are 170 unicorns around the world and 21 in Europe. Of those, 10 have been supported by financing from the European Investment Fund, which provides financing to small and medium-sized companies and is part of the European Investment Bank Group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Allar and Matt uncover the imaginative names for fast-growing new companies, from unicorns to gazelles, dragons and…cockroaches.

A unicorn is a privately held company with a valuation of more than USD 1 billion

When a company sells shares to the public, it’s called a dragon if it’s worth more than the entire size of the venture capital fund that first invested in it

If you like fairy stories, you’ll enjoy the work of Helmut Krämer-Eis, chief economist of the European Investment Fund. You probably don’t associate finance with fairy stories, but Helmut points out in this episode of A Dictionary of Finance that investors have turned to mythical creatures to describe flourishing new companies.

Perhaps when you risk your money with an investment, you need to believe in the company just as much as a five-year-old child listening to a story of flying horses needs to believe in magic? In any case, Helmut explains what kinds of companies can be called a dragon or a unicorn, as well as a gazelle. Allar weighs in with the definition of a cockroach company…

There are 170 unicorns around the world and 21 in Europe. Of those, 10 have been supported by financing from the European Investment Fund, which provides financing to small and medium-sized companies and is part of the European Investment Bank Group.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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