October 4, 2021

• Last week, Amplitude went public via a direct listing that valued the company at $5 billion.

• Andela raised $200 million at a $1.5 billion valuation.

• Arctic Wolf acquired Habitu8, a security awareness management platform.

• Betterment raised $160 million at a $1.3 billion valuation.

• Byju’s raised $300 million at a $18 billion valuation.

• Meesho raised $500 million at a $4.9 billion valuation.

• OneLogin was acquired by One Identity.

• Warby Parker went public via a direct listing that valued the company at $6.8 billion.

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September 27, 2021

• Last week, Fivetran raised $565 million at a $5.6 billion valuation. In addition, the company acquired HVR, a data integration startup, for $700 million.

• Freshworks raised $1.02 billion in its IPO at a $10 billion valuation.

• Oyo Rooms planned to raise $1.2 billion in its upcoming IPO at a $12 billion valuation.

• Remitly raised $523 million in its IPO at a $6.9 billion valuation.

• Toast raised $870 million in its IPO at a $20 billion valuation.

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September 22, 2021

• Last week, Airwallex raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation.

• Byju’s acquired Tynker, a coding platform for kids.

• Canva raised $200 million at a $40 billion valuation.

• Discord raised $500 million at a $15 billion valuation.

• ForgeRock raised $275 million in its IPO at a $1.98 billion valuation.

• GitLab filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

• GrubMarket raised $120 million at a $1.12 billion valuation.

• SpaceX completed its milestone Inspiration4 mission which orbited the Earth on a Crew Dragon spacecraft with an all-civilian crew.

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September 13, 2021

• Last week, Bytedance was having preliminary talks with banks to obtain more than $3 billion to refinance its debt.

• Emulate raised $82 million in a new funding round.

• Notion acquired Automate.io, a startup that allows seamless integration with 200 services.

• Snyk raised $530 million at a $8.5 billion valuation.

• Varo Bank raised $510 million at a $2.5 billion valuation.

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September 8, 2021

• Last week, Allbirds filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

• Delhivery raised $76.4 million from Addition.

• Ola reached out to banks to advise on its upcoming $1 billion IPO raise.

• Patreon acquired Clear Talent, a tech recruiting corporation.

• Udemy acquired CorpU, a leadership development platform.

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September 1, 2021

• Last week, Bytedance acquired Pico, a developer of a virtual reality headset.

• Ramp raised $300 million at a $3.9 billion valuation. In addition, the company acquired Buyer, a firm that assist startups in negotiating prices for their software spending.

• Rivian confidentially filed documents for its IPO.

• Sweetgreen acquired Spyce, a developer of kitchen automation technology.

• Toast filed its S1 for its upcoming IPO.

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