January 24, 2022
Last week, Animoca Brands raised $360 million at a valuation greater than $5 billion.
Lattice raised $175 million at a $3 billion valuation.
Plaid acquired Cognito, an identity verification startup, for $250 million. Plaid also paid $58 million to users of Robinhood, Venmo and other apps that employed its technology due to a compliant that attested that the firm was collecting financial data from consumers.
Swiggy raised $700 million at a $10.7 billion valuation.
January 18, 2022
Last week, BlockFi appointed Deborah Barta as its COO and Alex Grigoryan as its CTO. Barta previously was the Senior Vice President of Provenance and Strategy at Mastercard. Grigoryan previously was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Skillz and the Vice President of Engineering, Customer Experience, and Specialized Experiences at Walmart.
Bolt raised $711 million at a $8.4 billion valuation.
Checkout.com raised $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation.
January 11, 2022
Last week, The Athletic was acquired by The New York Times for $550 million.
Miro raised $400 million at a $17.5 billion valuation.
OpenSea raised $300 million at a $13.3 billion valuation.
December 28, 2021
Last week, Byju’s was having discussions with Churchill Capital's special-purpose acquisition company at a $48 billion valuation.
Course Hero raised $380 million at $3.6 billion valuation.
GoPuff was raising a $1.5 billion in a convertible debt round at a $40 billion valuation.
Kurly raised $210 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.
Razorpay raised $375 million at $7.5 billion valuation.
Reddit confidentially filed documents for its IPO.
Samsara raised $805 million in its IPO at a $11.5 billion valuation.
Last week, Airtable acquired Walrus.ai, a no-code testing platform.
Cohesity confidentially filed documents for its IPO.
Automation Anywhere acquired FortressIQ, an AI process automaton suite.
Bolt was raising a new round at a $14 billion valuation.
Triller is going public via a reverse acquisition with SeaChange International (SPAC).
Via confidentially filed documents for its IPO.
December 13, 2021
Last week, Airtable raised $735 million at a $11.7 billion valuation.
Byju’s acquired GeoGebra, an Australian mathematics platform.
Hashicorp raised $1.2 billion in its IPO at a $14 billion valuation.
Nubank raised $2.6 billion in its IPO at a $41 billion valuation.
Ola raised $139 million at a $7.3 billion valuation.
Tradeshift raised $200 million in a new funding round.
December 7, 2021
Last week, Bolt acquired Tipster, a platform that enables digital checkout.
Niantic acquired Lowkey, a gameplay capturing application.
OpenSea appointed Brian Roberts as its first CFO. Roberts was previously the CFO of Lyft.
Via raised $130 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.