Recent Trends in the Valuation of Early-Stage Companies
This webinar provides an overview of recent trends in the valuation of early-stage companies. We will review the guidance that the International Valuation Standards Council (including the most recent IVS 500), the Luxembourg Valuation Professionals Association, IPEV, and AICPA provide, and we will then provide practical, step-by-step examples of how to handle some current challenges in early-stage valuation, such as the valuation of SAFEs, how to incorporate down rounds into the valuation, and how to ...
BV News and Trends February 2024
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Practice opportunity in new SEC rules for private funds
There is a “big opportunity” for valuation practitioners as well as accounting and attestation firms as a result of the new SEC rules designed to enhance the regulation of private fund advisers, remarked Justin Kuczmarski (NAV Valuation & Advisory LLC) during a session at the 2023 ASA International Conference recently in New Orleans.
Heat Maps for Valuing Venture-Backed vs. Closely Held Firms
During a recent BVR webinar, Joe Orlando (Exit Strategies Group) and Eric Sundheim (Mercovus Valuations) presented some heat map charts that illustrate the differences between the due diligence, tools, and approaches to valuing a venture-backed firm versus a closely held company.
Global BV News and Trends March 2023
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BV News: IPEV updates PE/VC valuation guidelines
International Private Equity and Venture Capital (IPEV), a trade group that sets valuation practices for private funds, has published the 2022 edition of its guidelines.
Global BV News and Trends June 2021
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BV News: KPMG on early-stage valuations
“Despite the COVID-19 crisis, global venture capital funding increased 4.0% year over year to USD 300 billion in 2020,” says KPMG’s Quarterly Brief—International Valuation Newsletter for the second quarter of 2021.
Global BVU News and Trends December 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BVU News and Trends September 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BVU News and Trends August 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
How can you get BV CPD during COVID-19?
The short answer is ‘virtual.’
Global BVU News and Trends June 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BV News: D&P examines ‘breaking point’ for global firms
Almost half (47%) of alternative investment fund managers polled by Duff & Phelps say that three months is the “breaking point” at which the current economic restrictions impair the ability of businesses to resume business as usual after the lockdown.
IPEV offers guidance for 31 March valuations
The International Private Equity & Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines Board has issued special guidance for applying the IPEV Valuation Guidelines when estimating fair value at 31 March 2020.
Global BV News: IPEV issues special guidance for March 31 valuations
The International Private Equity & Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines Board (“the IPEV Board”) has issued special guidance with respect to applying the IPEV Valuation Guidelines when estimating fair value at March 31, 2020, which will be “very challenging.”
BVU News and Trends October 2019
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
DCF Modeling for Early Stage Enterprises: A Fair Value Update
In In this panel discussion Antonella Puca, Andreas Dal Santo and Shilpa Chandra will discuss the special characteristics of DCF modeling as they pertain to the valuation of companies that are in the early years of their life and that have yet to become profitable (early stage enterprises or “ESE”s). Learn the relevance of terminal value in driving valuation for ESEs and the dynamic nature of the model, which can be adjusted at subsequent measurement ...
AICPA releases final PE/VC guide
The AICPA has released the final version of a new accounting and valuation guide, Valuation of Portfolio Company Investments of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds and Other Investment Companies, which provides nonauthoritative guidance and illustrations regarding the accounting for and valuation of portfolio company investments investment companies hold within the scope of FASB ASC 946.
BVU News and Trends September 2019
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Final PE/VC guide out soon from the AICPA
This August or September, you can expect to see a final version of the AICPA’s new Accounting and Valuation Guide Valuation of Portfolio Company Investments of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds and Other Investment Companies.
Calibration With OPM in Early-Stage Enterprises: A Fair Value Update
Based on new draft guidelines, a review of how a calibration model can be established based on the initial transaction price of an investment in an early-stage enterprise. Also discussed is how such a model could be used in subsequent measurement periods to estimate the fair value of the enterprise and of equity interests in a portfolio company.
Global BVU News and Trends March 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
BVU News and Trends February 2019
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Global BV News: IPEV updates PE/VC valuation guidelines
International Private Equity and Venture Capital (IPEV), a trade group that sets valuation practices for private funds, has published the 2018 edition of its guidelines.