April 20, 2021

• Last week, Coinbase went public via a direct listing that valued the company at $99.60 billion at the opening of the first trading day.

• Grab planned to be acquired by Altimeter Growth Corp, a SPAC, in a deal that the values the company at $39.6 billion.

• MasterClass was raising a new funding round at a $2.5 billion valuation.

• Revolut was raising a new funding round at a valuation greater than $10 billion.

• Scale raised a $325 million at a $7 billion valuation.

• Squarespace filed its S1 for its upcoming direct listing.

• In its latest regulatory filing, Zymergen planned to sell its shares at a range of $28 per share to $31 per share, raising roughly $421.6 million at the top end of the range which translates to a $2.96 billion valuation.

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April 13, 2021

• Last week, Acorns acquired Pillar, a debt management platform.

• Better raised $500 million at a $6 billion valuation.

• Canva raised $71 million at a $15 billion valuation.

• Coinbase released its Q1 2021 results prior to its IPO on April 14th.

• Compass raised $450 million in its IPO at a $7 billion valuation.

• Didi Chuxing confidently filed documents for its IPO and was raising $1.5 billion in debt.

• Grand Rounds merged with Doctors on Demand.

• Patreon raised $155 million at a $4 billion valuation.

• StockX closed its $195 million secondary tender offering led by Altimeter Capital and raised an additional $60 million as a part of its Series E-1 round at a $3.8 billion valuation.

• Trax raised $640 million in its Series E round.

• In its latest regulatory filing, UiPath planned to sell its shares at a range of $43 per share to $50 per share, raising roughly $1.06 billion at the top end of the range which translates to a $26 billion valuation.

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April 6, 2021

• Last week, Coursera raised $519 million in its IPO at a $4.30 billion valuation.

• Deliveroo raised $2.1 billion in its IPO at a $10.50 billion valuation.

• Plaid was raising a new funding round at a $13 billion valuation.

• ThoughtSpot acquired SeekWell, a data analytics platform that links SQL databases to external applications.

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March 30, 2021

• Last week, DigitalOcean raised $775 million in its IPO at a $5 billion valuation.

• Discord was having preliminary discussions to be acquired by Microsoft for at least $10 billion.

• Eat Just raised $200 million in a new funding round.

• GoPuff raised $1.15 billion at a $8.9 billion valuation.

• Ibotta appointed Sunit Patel as its new CFO. Patel previously worked as the Executive Vice President of Merger and Integration at T-Mobile.

• Robinhood confidentially filed documents for its upcoming IPO.

• Roman Health raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation.

• ServiceTitan raised $500 million at a $8.3 billion valuation.

• UiPath filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO and acquired Cloud Elements, an API integration suite.

• WeWork planned to be acquired by BowX Acquisition Corp, a SPAC, in a deal that the values the company at $9 billion.

• Zymergen filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO

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March 23, 2021

• Last week, ByteDance acquired Moonton Technology, a video game studio, for $4 billion

• Dataminr was raising a new round that valued the company at roughly $3.6 billion.

• Dataminr raised $475 million at a $4.1 billion valuation

• Docker raised $23 million in its Series B funding round.

• EToro planned to be acquired by FinTech Acquisition Corp. V (FTCV), a SPAC, in a deal that the values the company at $10.4 billion.

• Epic Games was raising a new round that valued the company at $28 billion.

• Lookout acquired CipherCloud, a cloud security firm.

• Olo raised $450 million in its IPO at a $3.6 billion valuation.

• Squarespace raised $300 million at a $10 billion valuation.

• Zenefits received a majority control investment from Francisco Partners.

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March 16, 2021

• Last week, Airtable raised $270 million at a $5.77 billion valuation.

• Coupang raised $4.55 billion in its IPO at a $60 billion valuation.

• Epic Games acquired Capturing Reality, a firm that develops technology to perform 3D scans of objects to create enhanced gaming graphics.

• Roblox went public via a direct listing that valued the company at $41.9 billion

• Snyk raised $175 million at a $4.7 billion valuation.

• Stripe raised $600 million at a $95 billion valuation.

• ThoughtSpot raised $20 million from Snowflake Ventures.

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