June 21, 2021

• Last week, Addepar raised $150 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation.

• Anduril raised $450 million at a $4.6 billion valuation.

• Automattic acquired Day One, a journaling application.

• Gusto acquired Ardius, a tax automation compliance suite.

• Keeptruckin raised $190 million at a $2.3 billion valuation.

• Revolut disclosed some key statistics related to its 2020 financials. The company generated $361 million in revenue which represents a 57% increase compared to its 2019 revenue. Gross profit was roughly $170 million and total non-adjusted operating loss was approximately $277 million in FY 2020.

• In its latest regulatory filing, SentinelOne planned to sell its shares at a range of $26 per share to $29 per share, raising $928 million at the top end of the range which translates to $7.36 billion valuation.

• Two weeks ago, Amplitude raised $150 million at a $4 billion pre-money valuation.

• BlockFi was raising a new funding round at a $5 billion valuation.

• Datarobot was raising a new funding round at a valuation greater than $7 billion.

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June 14, 2021

• Last week, Attentive acquired Tone, a conversational texting platform.

• Byju’s raised $350 million at a $16.50 billion valuation.

• Course Hero acquired LitCharts, a suite that simplifies literatures for students.

• Didi Chuxing filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

• Faire raised $260 million at a $7 billion valuation.

• Klarna raised $639 million at a $45.6 billion valuation.

• Marqeta raised $1.2 billion in its IPO at a $15.2 billion valuation.

• NuBank raised an additional $750 million as an extension of its Series G funding round thereby valuing the company at $30 billion.

• Relatively Space raised $650 million at a $4.2 billion valuation.

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June 7, 2021

• Last week, Exabeam raised $200 million at a $2.4 billion valuation. In addition, the company appointed Michael DeCesare as its new CEO and President. DeCesare was previously the CEO of Forescout Technologies.

• GitLab acquired UnReview, a machine learning platform that recommends the best code reviewers.

• Gong raised $250 million at a $7.25 billion valuation.

• In its latest regulatory filing, Marqeta planned to sell its shares at a range of $20 per share to $24 per share, raising more than $1 billion at the top end of the range which translates to more than $12 billion valuation.

• Outreach raised $200 million at a $4.4 billion valuation.

• SentinelOne filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

• Sprinklr filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

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June 2, 2021

• Last week, Acorns planned to be acquired by Pioneer Merger Corp, a SPAC, in a deal that values the company at $2.2 billion.

• Doximity filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

• Klarna was raising roughly $500 million in a new funding round that would value the company at more than $40 billion valuation.

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May 25, 2021

• Last week, Figure raised $200 million at a $3.2 billion valuation.

• Formlabs raised $150 million at a $2 billion valuation.

• NerdWallet confidentially filed documents for its IPO

• Procore raised $634.50 million in its IPO at a $9.6 billion valuation.

• Roman Health acquired Modern Fertility, a reproductive health startup.

• Snyk acquired FossID, an open source compliance and security startup.

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May 17, 2021

• Last week, Better planned to be acquired by Aurora Acquisition Corp, a SPAC, in a deal that values the company at $7.7 billion.

• Bird planned to be acquired by Switchback II, a SPAC, in a deal that values the company at $2.3 billion.

• DataRobot acquired Zepl, a data science and machine learning platform.

• Ginkgo Bioworks planned to be acquired by Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp, a SPAC, in a deal that values the company at $15 billion.

• JD Logistics filed documents for its upcoming IPO where the company plans to raise roughly $3.4 billion.

• Marqeta filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

• Stripe acquired Bouncer, a payment authentication startup.

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