June 6, 2022
Anduril was raising $1.2 billion at a $7 billion pre-money valuation.
Motive (formerly Keeptruckin) raised $150 million at a $2.85 billion valuation.
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Go1 raised $100 million at a valuation greater than $2 billion.
Lookout Security acquired SaferPass, a password management platform.
May 24, 2022
Chainalysis raised $170 million at a $8.6 billion valuation.
Checkout.com acquired ubble, an identity verification startup.
Faire raised $416 million as an extension round.
Gusto raised $55 million as an extension round.
Instacart confidentially filed documents for its upcoming IPO.
Razorpay performed a $75 million secondary round.
Rippling raised $250 million at a $11.25 billion valuation.
Swiggy acquired Dineout, a restaurant reservation platform.
Cerebral’s CEO, Kyle Robertson, departed from the company and was replaced by the company’s CMO and President, Dave Mou.
Imply raised $100 million at a $1.1 billion valuation.
Klarna was raising a new funding round at a $30 billion valuation.
SpaceX closed a secondary tender offer at a $125 billion valuation. The company planned to raise $1.7 billion at a $127 billion valuation.
SpotOn raised $300 million at a $3.6 billion valuation.
May 10, 2022
Bolt Financial was sued by one of its leading customers, Authentic Brands Group, for vastly overstating its traction.
Harness raised $230 million at a $3.7 billion valuation.
OpenSea acquired Gem, a NFT aggregation site.
Deliverr was acquired by Shopify for $2.1 billion.
Thrasio appointed Greg Greeley as its new CEO. Greeley previously was the President of Homes at Airbnb and spent 18 years working as a Vice President at Amazon.
April 26, 2022
Deel surpassed $100 million ARR.
Epic Games raised $2 billion from Sony and Kirkbi investment company, the parent company of the Lego Group. As a result of the new funding round, the company’s valuation rose to $31.5 billion.
Ōura Health raised a new funding round at a $2.55 billion valuation.
Brex acquired Pry Financials, an accounting software startup that tracks budgeting and forecasts cash flow.
ByteDance appointed Julie Gao as its new CFO. Gao previously was a capital markets attorney at Skadden.
Convoy raised $260 million in debt and equity at a $3.8 billion valuation.
Flutterwave’s current CEO was accused of financial misconduct for creating a false cofounder to gain more shares of the company.
April 4, 2022
Cross River Bank raised $620 million at a $3 billion valuation.
Docker raised $105 million at a $2.1 billion valuation.
Niantic acquired NZXR, an augmented reality startup.
Pensando was acquired by AMD for $2 billion.
Remote raised $300 million at a roughly $3 billion valuation.
March 29, 2022
Last week, GoTo Group planned to raise $1.1 billion in its upcoming IPO.
Webflow raised $120 million at a $4 billion valuation.
Indigo AG appointed John Frederick as its new CFO. Frederick previously was the CEO of SumTotal Systems and the Chief Administrative Officer at Skillsoft.
Instacart reduced its internal valuation to $24 billion which represents a 38% discount to its last round valuation in March 2021.
Ola acquired Avail Finance, a platform that assists blue collar workers with their finances.
SparkCognition acquired Integration Wizards, an advanced visual AI startup.