Stripe is now valued at $20B after raising another $245M led by Tiger GlobalThis is a big jump on its previous round, two years ago, that valued it at $9 billion. Led by Tiger Global Management, other new backers included DST Global and Sequoia, along with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst and Thrive Capital. [ Tech Crunch ] Checkout General Catalyst's Deals, Exits and Fund Raised Data. Checkout Andreessen Horowitz's Deals, Exits and Fund Raised Data. Y Combinator grad The Lobby raises $1.2M to help job seekers break into Wall StreetSix months after completing Y Combinator’s 12-week accelerator program, The Lobby is announcing a $1.2 million investment. The startup
connects job seekers to Wall Street bankers, venture capitalists and other finance “insiders” for advice and personalized career coaching. [ Tech Crunch ] Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100 Billion Blitz on Sand Hill Road. The Japanese dealmaker says he’ll raise a new $100 billion fund every few years. Silicon Valley’s disruptors are struggling to keep up.Two years ago, Masayoshi Son, chief executive officer of SoftBank, sat in a Gulfstream jet high above the Arabian Gulf, en route to meet with potential investors in a new fund that would invest in technology startups. He was going through his presentation with Rajeev Misra, a key lieutenant, when something stopped him. [ Bloomberg ] Compass nabs $400M, valuing the real estate technology startup at $4.4B - by SoftBank’s Vision FundCompass, the New York startup that has built a tech-first platform to take on the antiquated market of real estate, is building up its own house today. To double down on domestic growth, build out its tech, and to finally open up for business outside the US, the company has raised another $400 million of funding. Jointly led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund and the Qatar Investment Authority, this Series F — likely to be the last before it goes public — now values Compass at a whopping $4.4 billion. [ Tech Crunch ] Opendoor raises $400 million from SoftBank’s Vision FundOpendoor, a startup that buys and sells homes, said Thursday that it raised $400 million from SoftBank's Vision Fund, plus an additional $2 billion in debt financing from undisclosed banks. A source tells Axios that the equity valuation was north of $2 billion. Why it matters: Opendoor is one of Silicon Valley's most daring bets, due to the risk it would face from a real estate market downturn. [ Tech Crunch ]
App performance management platform Instana raises $30 millionInstana, an application performance management (APM) platform for dynamic applications deployed in the enterprise, has raised $30 million in a series C round of funding led by Meritech Capital, with participation from its series B lead investor, Accel.[ Tech Crunch ] Sequoia's Jess Lee Backs Maven, a Digital Health Startup for WomenSequoia Capital’s Jess Lee has made her fifth investment since joining the venture capital firm as its first female investing partner in the U.S. in late 2016. This time,
she’s placing her bet on Maven, a digital health startup focused on women—and run by women, and funded by women. [ Fortune ] Capella Space nabs $19 million for small satellites that capture on-demand Earth imagery from spaceCapella Space, an aerospace company that is setting out to provide on-demand imagery of Earth from space using small satellites, has closed a $19 million series B round of funding from Spark Capital and DCVC (Data
Collective). [ Venture Beat ] LiveSafe Secures $11M in Series B-1 Extension FundingLiveSafe, a NYC-based provider of a solutions for organizations to prevent serious safety and security incidents using early warning insights from their people, secured $11 million in a Series B-1 extension funding. [ FinSMEs ] Research over 15K+ Venture Capital Investors on our
platform. Energize Ventures Closes First Venture Capital Fund, at $150MEnergize Ventures, a Chicago, IL-based venture capital fund investing in digital solutions for energy and industrials, closed its first fund, at $150m. [ FinSMEs ] |