AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR
AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR
The startup is increasingly joining with creative stars and expanding its work with business customers
Klarna's shares closed up 14.55% at $45.82 in its NYSE debut, giving it a $17B+ market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in its IPO
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Figma's stock closes up 250% at $115.50, after Figma sold shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$68B valuation; Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition fell apart in 2023
Figma's stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, a day after the design software company sold shares at $33 in its IPO.
Crypto wallet Phantom raised a $150M Series C co-led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm at a $3B valuation, more than double its $1.2B valuation in January 2022
Phantom raised $150 million from big-name investors. — Cryptocurrency-wallet provider Phantom Technologies Inc. has raised $150 million …
Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates on X are posting “engagement bait”
Warp is under the spotlight following controversial posts from an account tied to the company. X: @joinwarp , @varunramg , @picopaco17 , @gergelyorosz , @khabrnow , @shedcap , @flu...
Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path” to EU and UK antitrust approval; Adobe owes Figma a $1B termination fee
Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma …
Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for ~$975M, split as ~$880M in cash and the rest in stock, set to close in Q1 2024; Loom has 25M+ users
Loom changed the game with tapping the PLG market. Now, with atlassian all enterprise doors could open as well. [embedded post] @manpageman.bsky.social : Pivot! To! Video! [emb...
Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for ~$975M, split as ~$880M in cash and the rest in stock, set to close in Q1 2024; Loom has 25M+ users
Loom changed the game with tapping the PLG market. Now, with atlassian all enterprise doors could open as well. [embedded post] @manpageman.bsky.social : Pivot! To! Video! [emb...
A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M
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NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based macOS terminal app with features like permalinks and AI auto-complete command suggestions, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia
https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... … Twitter: Andrew Reed / @andrew__reed : Excited to share that Sequoia led Warp's Series B and I joined their board. The cloud and AI offer the cha...
Roblox has been down since about 7PM ET on October 28, with some speculating the outage may be related to a Chipotle promotion, but the company denies a link
Roblox is having some major server issues — Roblox has been down for more than two days, with the game and its related website offline for millions of players.
Robinhood closes down 8% on its first day of trading, after raising $2.1B in its IPO at a valuation of around $32B
will users ‘age out’ of the app? Finextra : Robinhood prices IPO at $32bn valuation Timothy Craig / Crypto Briefing : Robinhood IPOs Amid Uniswap Partnership Rumors Crunchbase News...
UI design and prototyping tool Figma raises $200M at a valuation of $10B, quintupling its valuation since last year
Enterprise video messaging service Loom raises $130M led by a16z at a valuation of $1.53B, and says it now has 10M users across 120K businesses
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Interview with Zapier CEO on Sequoia and Steadfast Financial's January investment via secondary market, acquiring no-code education business Makerpad, and more
Zapier CEO Wade Foster avoids thinking about fundraising as much as possible. Profitable for years, his startup …
Coinbase files its S-1, reveals profit of $322M in 2020 on $1.2B in revenue, up from a loss of $30M in 2019 on $533M in revenue
This summary highlights selected information that is presented … Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Coinbase Cofounders And Investors Poised To Rake In Tens Of Billions From IPO Ian Allison /...
Snapdocs, which is used by ~130,000 real estate professionals to manage the mortgage process online, raises $60M Series C led by YC Continuity
Palantir lists Denver as its headquarters on its website, after Alex Karp said in a May interview that Palantir was considering moving out of Silicon Valley
but the compounding effect will be massive & is impossible for us to quantify today. https://www.cnbc.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The exodus from the Bay Area is anothe...
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas ,...