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Managing editor, news and talent, @theinformation. Previously @forbes, @usatoday, @marketwatch. We are hiring! Laura@theinformation.com. Profile pic: Erin Beach
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The Prolonged Write-Downs in Enterprise Software Startups

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It’s not easy to run an enterprise software company these days. For the nth example of this, read the latest story by my colleague Laura Bratton, who describes how an Atlanta real estate manager replaced Salesforce software with a custom app developed using Replit and Claude Code—saving $100,000 a year. Yipes. Fears that companies will replace their software subscriptions with cheaper AI tools have hammered not just publicly traded stocks but the valuations of private companies.
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Lime Shares Open Up 9%

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By Laura Mandaro Verified
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Source: The Information Shares in the company behind Lime electric scooters and bikes began trading on Wednesday, rising nearly 10% in early trading to above $27. The company, Neutron Holdings, said late Tuesday it had priced its initial public offering at $25 a share, the midpoint of its expected range, selling $174 million in new and existing shares. The offering values the company at $1.6 billion.
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Benchmark Joins the Late-Stage Crowd

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By Laura Mandaro Verified
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For most of this decade, venture capital has morphed from a game of spotting the best young startups to making a more complex range of investments—from public stocks and cryptocurrencies to multibillion-dollar bets on older startups. General Catalyst even bought a hospital system! But industry stalwart Benchmark had held fast to a definition of VC that was more common when the firm was founded three decades ago.
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