Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of April 12, 2021. Plaid Raised $425M Series D led by Altimeter Capital

Four months into 2021, US venture funding reached $64 billion with some mega funding events like Cruise’s $2 billion round led by Microsoft and GoPuff's $1.15 billion round led by Softbank. 

Who else is leading these mega rounds?  Here is a short list: 

• Franklin Templeton Investments led the $1B round for Databricks
• Ribbit Capital led the $1B round for Robinhood
• Sequoia led $850M round for SpaceX
• Coatue and Alkeon Capital led $750M round for UiPath
• Coatue led $590M round for Sila Nanotechnologies
• Advent International and Oaktree Capital Management led $750M round for Thrasio
• Allianz X, AXA Group, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity led $600M round for Stripe
• Matrix Capital Management led $525M round for ElevateBio

This week a total of 25 startups raised $1.3B in funding, 1 M&As:

• $314.4M goes to 11 Enterprise startups
• $425M goes to 1 FinTech startup
• $5.3M goes to 1 Crypto startup
• $4M goes to 1 Education startup
• $45M goes to 2 FoodTech startups
• $260.3M goes to 4 Healthcare startups
• $58.5M goes to 2 BioTech startups
• $12M goes to 1 Robotics startup
• $37.5M goes to 2 Logistics startups