>How many small companies are getting funding these days?<
Almost none. The crappy companies can’t get funding for the reasons discussed in #msg-33838374.
>If they didn't have something special, they wouldn't be getting the money.<
MNTA is indeed sui generis, which begs the question of whom they might acquire with the new money—assuming for the sake of discussion that they are actually on the prowl.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”