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This ignores the fact that a lot of the new money is coming not from venture funds but fromother investors, including mutual funds such as T Rowe Price and Fidelity. Three-quarters ofrecent fundraising rounds by “unicorns” — start-ups valued at $1bn or more — were led by“non-traditional” investors, according to a recent study by Fenwick & West, a SiliconValley law firm.
这种说法忽略了一点，很多新投资并非来自于风投基金，而是来自其他投资者，包括普信集团(T Rowe Price)和富达(Fidelity)等共同基金。硅谷律师事务所Fenwick & West的最新研究表明，“独角兽”公司(指价值10亿美元或者以上的初创企业)最近几轮融资中，有四分之三是由“非传统”投资者牵头。
One is Carl Icahn, the activist investor, who this week put $100m into Lyft, a rival to Uber. MrIcahn often makes life difficult for his investment targets but is as enamoured as everyone elsewith his Silicon Valley picks. “We’ll be the first to admit that you are more knowledgeable inthese areas than we are,” he wrote fulsomely to Apple this week.
维权投资者卡尔•伊坎(Carl Icahn)就是其中之一。不久前伊坎给优步的竞争对手Lyft投资了1亿美元。伊坎经常让他的投资目标公司日子不好过，但他还是像其他所有人一样迷恋于他挑选的硅谷公司。不久前他写给苹果的信极尽恭维：“我们将头一个承认你们更懂这些领域。”