January 4, 2021
23andMe raised $82.5 million in a new funding round.
Affirm acquired PayBright, a Candian Buy Now Pay Later firm, to expand the reach of its services.
Nuro acquired Ike, an autonomous truck start up
Ripple was sued by the SEC. The SEC claims that Ripple’s XRP token should be registered as a security.
December 22, 2020
Last week, Coinbase confidentially filed for its IPO.
Ginkgo Bioworks acquired Novogy, a firm with an extensive strain assets and IP portfolio.
Oscar Health raised $140 million in a new funding round led by Tiger Global.
Robinhood was fined $65 million from the SEC for not accurately describing how the firm generated revenue to its customers.
Roblox acquired Loom.ai, a platform that develops 3D avatars.
Rubrik acquired Igneous, a developer of a unstructured data backup platform.
StockX raised $275 million at a $2.8 billion valuation.
UiPath confidentially filed for its IPO.
Wish raised $1.1 billion in its IPO at a $14.1 billion valuation.
Zomato raised $660 million at a $3.9 billion valuation.
December 14, 2020
Last week, Affirm stated that it will delay its IPO to 2021.
Airbnb raised $3.5 billion at a $40 billion valuation in its IPO.
Calm raised an additional $75 million at a $2 billion valuation.
DoorDash raised $3.4 billion at a $34 billion valuation in its IPO.
Reddit acquired Dubsmash, a short video platform.
Roblox stated that it will delay its IPO to 2021.
December 7, 2020
Last week, Airbnb increased the price range for its IPO to $56 to $60 per share which translates to $42 billion valuation.
DoorDash increased the price range for its IPO to $90 and $95 per share which translates to $30 billion valuation.
Gainsight was acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 billion.
Kustomer was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion.
Scale.Ai raised $155 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.
Two weeks ago, Hippo insurance raised $350 million from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company.
November 30, 2020
Affirm, Airbnb, Roblox and Wish filed their S1s for their upcoming IPOs.
Addepar raised $117 million in its Series E round.
Buzzfeed acquired Huffpost, a news publishing site.
Duolingo raised $35 million at a $2.4 billion valuation.
Baiju Bhatt stepped down from his role as Co-CEO of Robinhood but will continue to develop the platform as a cofounder.
Discord was closing a funding round that would value the company at $7 billion.
Gingko Bioworks received a $1.1 billion loan from the U.S. International Development Finance Corp for COVID-19 testing and future pandemic mitigation.
Stripe was having talks to raise a new funding round that would cause the company’s valuation to surpass $70 billion.
November 16, 2020
Last week, DoorDash filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.
Getaround raised $25 million in debt.
Nuro raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation.
SentinelOne raised $267 million at a $3.1 billion valuation.
Workfront was acquired by Adobe for $1.5 billion.
Udemy was raising $100 million at a $3.32 billion.
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