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9/14/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of September 14 2020. Zymergen Raised $300M led by Baillie Gifford
View this email in your browser Hello from the apocalyptic San Francisco! I have not left the house for almost 5 days... We are seeing a flood of high growth enterprise tech companies filing for IPO
9/7/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of September 7 2020. Transposit Raised $35M Series B
View this email in your browser Happy Labor Day, from super warm San Francisco! Right now I'm sitting in an outdoor cafe, soaking up the sun while wearing a mask writing this. This past week has
8/31/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of August 31 2020. Freenome Raised $270M Series C
View this email in your browser I really like the article by Bryan Schreier (linked below) on how to prepare a board deck. A terrific reminder on structuring your first few board meetings as a new CEO.
8/24/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of August 24 2020. Lambda School Raised $74M Series C
View this email in your browser The world economy is experiencing the worst recession since the Great Depression, yet the stock market (especially for cloud and SaaS companies) is reaching a new record
8/17/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of August 17 2020
Gong.io Raised $200M Series D from Coatue Management View this email in your browser My partner, Alfred Chuang, was featured on Bloomberg's Podcast “The Greatest CEO” this past week. My favorite
8/10/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of August 10 2020
View this email in your browser The IPO market is on fire! When the IPO market shut down in March, assumptions were that IPOs would have to wait until everyone can travel again. Then, investment
8/3/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of August 3 2020
View this email in your browser Can Microsoft make Tiktok more American? Maybe. Bytedance, Tiktok's parent company, is considering the sale of its US operations to Microsoft to fend off threats of
7/19/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of July 20 2020.
View this email in your browser It was August 13, 1993, I arrived in America as a high school exchange student. It was also Friday the 13th and it was the luckiest day of my life. I was so thankful
7/12/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of July 13 2020. Perfect Day Raised $160M Series C
View this email in your browser The largest funding event of 2020 did not happen in Silicon Valley. It happened in India. Over $15 billion went to Reliance Jio from 11 investors in the past three
7/6/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of July 6 2020. Fivetran Raised $100M Series C
View this email in your browser Four years ago, I released the very first edition of the China Internet Report. The goal of the report was simple - to share all my learning about China and how
6/29/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of June 29 2020. API went IPO
View this email in your browser One of my companies, Agora.io, went IPO on NASDAQ yesterday with the ticker API. Tony Zhao, founder and CEO of Agora.io is one of the most underrated CEOs. He founded
6/22/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of June 22 2020. Orcabio Raised $192M Series D
View this email in your browser 2020 is the year of crisis, chaos, and confusion. The world is drowning in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis, suffocating from racial injustice and protests, and
6/18/2020
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Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of June 15 2020. Postman Raised $150M Series C
View this email in your browser Are startups getting too fat? For the past few years, mega-funds drown companies with boatloads of capital. Here are the top 10 private companies ranked by total funding