March 8, 2021
Last week, Auth0 was acquired by Okta for $6.5 billion.
Compass and Coursera filed their S1s for its upcoming IPOs.
Deliveroo generated £4.1 billion in revenue in 2020 (up from £2.5 billion in 2019) and posted a net loss of £223.7 million in 2020 (down from £317 million in 2019).
Epic Games acquired Mediatonic, the firm that developed Fall Guys.
Instacart raised $265 million at a $39 billion.
Oscar Health raised $1.2 billion in its IPO at a $7.7 billion valuation.
March 1, 2021
Last week, DigitalOcean filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO
Klarna raised $1 billion at a $31 billion valuation.
Kraken was raising a new funding round that would value the company at $10 billion.
Next Insurance was raising a new funding round that would value the company at $4 billion.
Olo filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.
Reddit raised an additional $116 million as an extension of its Series E round.
Rocket Lab planned to get acquired by Vector Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC, that would value the company at $4.1 billion.
Zomato raised $250 million at a $5.4 billion valuation.
February 22, 2021
Last week, Brex applied for a bank charter and hired Bruce Wallace to head its new Brex Bank initiative.
Coinbase completed several secondary transactions with the highest trade completed at $373 per share, which valued the company at $100 billion.
GoPuff acquired Fancy, a UK based micro fulfillment delivery firm.
Marqeta confidentially filed documents for its upcoming IPO.
SpaceX raised $850 million at a $74 billion valuation.
February 15, 2021
Last week, Coupang filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO
Reddit raised $250 million at a $6 billion valuation.
SentinelOne planned to acquire Scalyr, a startup that developed a logging analytics and management suite, for $155 million.
ZocDoc raised $150 million in a new funding round.
February 9, 2021
Last week, 23andMe planned to be acquired by VG Acquisition Corp, a SPAC, in a deal that the values the the company at $3.5 billion.
Automattic acquired Parse.ly, a content analytics startup.
Knotel filed for bankruptcy.
UiPath raised $750 million at a $35 billion valuation.