November 30, 2020

• Affirm, Airbnb, Roblox and Wish filed their S1s for their upcoming IPOs.

• Addepar raised $117 million in its Series E round.

• Buzzfeed acquired Huffpost, a news publishing site.

• Duolingo raised $35 million at a $2.4 billion valuation.

• Baiju Bhatt stepped down from his role as Co-CEO of Robinhood but will continue to develop the platform as a cofounder.

• Discord was closing a funding round that would value the company at $7 billion.

• Gingko Bioworks received a $1.1 billion loan from the U.S. International Development Finance Corp for COVID-19 testing and future pandemic mitigation.

• Stripe was having talks to raise a new funding round that would cause the company’s valuation to surpass $70 billion.

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November 16, 2020

• Last week, DoorDash filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

• Getaround raised $25 million in debt.

• Nuro raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation.

• SentinelOne raised $267 million at a $3.1 billion valuation.

• Workfront was acquired by Adobe for $1.5 billion.

• Udemy was raising $100 million at a $3.32 billion.

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November 9, 2020

• Last week, Ant Group postponed its IPO due to China’s new regulatory banking rules.

• ByteDance was having talks to raise $2 billion at a $180 billion valuation.

• Plaid’s $5.3 billion merger with Visa was in jeopardy due to the DOJ filing an antitrust lawsuit.

• Udacity raised $75 million in debt.

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November 2, 2020

• Last week, NerdWallet acquired Fundera, a platform that assists small and medium-sized businesses with assessing various lending options, to expand its financial guidance features.

• Procore acquired Esticom, a preconstruction estimating solution, to enable greater precision in calculating costs.

• Scopely raised $340 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

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October 26, 2020

• Last week, Airbnb’s board approved a 2-for-1 stock split.

• Eat Just was raising $200 million in a new funding round that may value the company around $2 billion.

• Handshake raised $80 million in a new funding round.

• Scopely acquired Genjoy, , developer of popular mobile game Tuscany Villa, to grow its number of users.

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October 19, 2020

• Last week, Calm was raising funding at a $2.2 billion valuation.

• Databricks achieved $350 million revenue run rate.

• Getaround raised $140 million in a new funding round.

• Proterra raised $200 million in new funding round.

• Roblox confidentially filed for its IPO.

• Stripe acquired Paystack, a Nigeria based payments API platform, to expand its presence in Africa.

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