May 11, 2021

• Last week, Acronis raised $250 million at a valuation greater than $2.5 billion.

• Automation Anywhere appointed James Budge as its CFO and Mike Micucci as its COO. Budge previously was the CFO at Pluralsight. Micucci previously led the product direction, marketing and operations for Saleforce's Community Cloud department.

• Divvy was getting acquired by Bill.com for $2.5 billion.

• In its latest regulatory filing, Procore planned to sell its shares in its IPO at a range of $60 per share to $65 per share, raising roughly $615.6 million which translates to a $8.3 billion valuation.

• ThoughtSpot acquired Diyotta, a data integration platform.

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May 3, 2021

• Last week, Brex raised $425 million at a $7.4 billion valuation.

• Stripe acquired TaxJar, a sales tax compliance platform.

• Udemy hired Sarah Blanchard as its new Chief Financial Officer. Blanchard previously was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Omada Health.

• Zomato filed documents for its upcoming IPO where the company plans to raised roughly $1.1 billion.

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April 26, 2021

• Last week, Confluent confidentially filed documents for its upcoming IPO.

• Discord terminated its acquisition discussion with Microsoft.

• Druva raised $147 million at a $2 billion valuation.

• UiPath raised $1.34 billion in its IPO at a $29 billion valuation.

• Zymergen raised $500 million in its IPO at a $3 billion valuation.

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April 20, 2021

• Last week, Coinbase went public via a direct listing that valued the company at $99.60 billion at the opening of the first trading day.

• Grab planned to be acquired by Altimeter Growth Corp, a SPAC, in a deal that the values the company at $39.6 billion.

• MasterClass was raising a new funding round at a $2.5 billion valuation.

• Revolut was raising a new funding round at a valuation greater than $10 billion.

• Scale raised a $325 million at a $7 billion valuation.

• Squarespace filed its S1 for its upcoming direct listing.

• In its latest regulatory filing, Zymergen planned to sell its shares at a range of $28 per share to $31 per share, raising roughly $421.6 million at the top end of the range which translates to a $2.96 billion valuation.

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April 13, 2021

• Last week, Acorns acquired Pillar, a debt management platform.

• Better raised $500 million at a $6 billion valuation.

• Canva raised $71 million at a $15 billion valuation.

• Coinbase released its Q1 2021 results prior to its IPO on April 14th.

• Compass raised $450 million in its IPO at a $7 billion valuation.

• Didi Chuxing confidently filed documents for its IPO and was raising $1.5 billion in debt.

• Grand Rounds merged with Doctors on Demand.

• Patreon raised $155 million at a $4 billion valuation.

• StockX closed its $195 million secondary tender offering led by Altimeter Capital and raised an additional $60 million as a part of its Series E-1 round at a $3.8 billion valuation.

• Trax raised $640 million in its Series E round.

• In its latest regulatory filing, UiPath planned to sell its shares at a range of $43 per share to $50 per share, raising roughly $1.06 billion at the top end of the range which translates to a $26 billion valuation.

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April 6, 2021

• Last week, Coursera raised $519 million in its IPO at a $4.30 billion valuation.

• Deliveroo raised $2.1 billion in its IPO at a $10.50 billion valuation.

• Plaid was raising a new funding round at a $13 billion valuation.

• ThoughtSpot acquired SeekWell, a data analytics platform that links SQL databases to external applications.

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