July 19, 2022

• Last week, Stripe reduced its internal valuation by 28% to $74 billion.

• Wefox raised $400 million at a $4.5 billion valuation.

• BlockFi was acquired by FTX for $240 million.

• Degreed acquired Learn In, a talent resource startup.

• Klarna has revised its upcoming funding round expectations to a $6.5 billion valuation.

• Reddit acquired MeaningCloud, a natural language processing firm.

• Triller confidentially filed documents for its IPO.

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June 27, 2022

• Last week, although Juul received a FDA ban on its products, the company is still allowed to temporarily market its products due to the recent appeal that it filed.

• Starburst Data acquired Varada, a data lake analytics startup.

• Last week, DataStax raised $115 million at a $1.6 billion valuation.

• Flutterwave appointed Oneal Bhambani as its new CFO. Bhambani previously worked at American Express as their Head of Capital Markets.

• Klarna was raising $500 million at a revised $15 billion valuation.

• HomeLight raised $60 million as an extension of its Series D round and acquired Accept.inc, a mortgage lender.

• Last week, BlockFi was raising a new funding round at a $1 billion valuation.

• Flexport appointed Dave Clark as its new CEO. Clark previously worked at Amazon as a senior executive in its global consumer department.

• GupShup acquired OneDirect, a customer service platform.

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June 6, 2022

Anduril was raising $1.2 billion at a $7 billion pre-money valuation.

• Motive (formerly Keeptruckin) raised $150 million at a $2.85 billion valuation.

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• Go1 raised $100 million at a valuation greater than $2 billion.

• Lookout Security acquired SaferPass, a password management platform.

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May 24, 2022

• Chainalysis raised $170 million at a $8.6 billion valuation.

• Checkout.com acquired ubble, an identity verification startup.

• Faire raised $416 million as an extension round.

• Gusto raised $55 million as an extension round.

• Instacart confidentially filed documents for its upcoming IPO.

• Razorpay performed a $75 million secondary round.

• Rippling raised $250 million at a $11.25 billion valuation.

• Swiggy acquired Dineout, a restaurant reservation platform.

• Cerebral’s CEO, Kyle Robertson, departed from the company and was replaced by the company’s CMO and President, Dave Mou.

• Imply raised $100 million at a $1.1 billion valuation.

• Klarna was raising a new funding round at a $30 billion valuation.

• SpaceX closed a secondary tender offer at a $125 billion valuation. The company planned to raise $1.7 billion at a $127 billion valuation.

• SpotOn raised $300 million at a $3.6 billion valuation.

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May 10, 2022

• Bolt Financial was sued by one of its leading customers, Authentic Brands Group, for vastly overstating its traction.

• Harness raised $230 million at a $3.7 billion valuation.

• OpenSea acquired Gem, a NFT aggregation site.

• Deliverr was acquired by Shopify for $2.1 billion.

• Thrasio appointed Greg Greeley as its new CEO. Greeley previously was the President of Homes at Airbnb and spent 18 years working as a Vice President at Amazon.

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