Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of December 13, 2021. Freenome Raised $300M Series D

18 more days to go in 2021.  Funding activities are not slowing down.  Venture capital funding in Silicon Valley continues to break records.

💰 Softbank alone deployed $570M this past week while Marcelo Claure, its COO demands $2 billion in pay
😂 Crypto slang 101 - Fun read on WAGMI, Ape, IYKYK 
❤️ Such an honor to be part of the Asia’s Most Influential List 2021 by Tatler Hong Kong.  Awesome to see many other founders and friends with this recognition.
🇨🇳 Love Shelly Banjo's ‘Foundering’ podcast on TikTok. Amazing story about founder Zhang Yiming and his journey to 2 billion downloads. How he got caught in between China and the US. Take a listen.

Race Capital portfolio companies are hiring!  Check out our job board. 

This week a total of 44 startups raised $2.3B in funding, 4 exits:

• $812M goes to 15 Enterprise startups
• $83M goes to 2 FinTech startups
• $85.2M goes to 4 Crypto startups
• $50M goes to 1 HRTech startup
• $63.3M goes to 2 Edtech startups
• $175M goes to 1 FoodTech startup
• $13M goes to 1 Food Delivery startup
• $13.1M goes to 2 Environment startups
• $10M goes to 1 Marketplace startup
• $57.5M goes to 2 Transportation startups
• $50M goes to 1 E-Commerce startup
• $30M goes to 1 Robotics startup
• $18M goes to 1 Hardware startup
• $8M goes to 1 Gaming startup
• $427.3M goes to 5 Healthcare startups
• $379.4M goes to 4 BioTech startups