Messages
6/28/2021
14 : 14
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of June 28, 2021. Incorta Raised $120M Series D
View this email in your browser Where Is the crypto and blockchain industry headed in 2021? Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX (one of our Race's portfolio companies) talked about what's
6/21/2021
14 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of June 21, 2021. IRL Raised $170M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund
View this email in your browser Congrats to my friend Jeni Mayorskaya, founder of Stork Club (maternity care platform) for raising $30M Series A led by General Catalyst. So proud of you! This week, my
6/14/2021
14 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of June 14, 2021. Cerebral Raised $127M Series B
View this email in your browser Private equity and venture capital managers are compensated in two main ways:annual management fees (taxed as ordinary income) and a 20-30% cut of the profit on deals
6/7/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of June 7, 2021. Alation Raised $110M Series D
View this email in your browser Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures famously once said that corporate venture is dumb and he thinks corporations should BUY companies instead. Why would a corporate
5/31/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of May 31, 2021. Zeta Raised $250M Series C led by SoftBank
View this email in your browser Tech M&A has totaled $136.2 billion in 2020, more than double the year-ago levels. This is according to data provider Dealogic as reported by Kane Wu's from
5/24/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of May 24, 2021. Extend Raised $260M Series C led by Softbank Vision Fund
View this email in your browser Hello from the beautiful sunny San Francisco! As the “work from home” (WFH) situation continues, I am moving this week (not to Miami or Austin), but two blocks away to a
5/17/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of May 17, 2021. Polysign Raised $53M Series B
View this email in your browser Big congrats to Jack McDonald, Arthur Britto (founder of Ripple) and the Polysign team for raising Series B led by Cowen! I am excited that Race Capital got to
5/10/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of May 10, 2021. HoneyBook Raised $155M Series D
View this email in your browser I finally got my second shot of the vaccine last week! With all the partners at Race now vaccinated, we will all be meeting again in person like normal soon. =)
5/3/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of May 3, 2021. Brex Raised $425M Series D led by Tiger Global
View this email in your browser Big congrats to Noam Ben-Zvi and Team Placer.ai for raising Series B! I am honored to be an investor and part of their journey since 2017. Placer.ai collects geolocation
4/19/2021
15 : 38
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of April 19, 2021. SambaNova Raised $676M Series D
View this email in your browser Hello from the beautiful and sunny San Francisco! This week I can feel the hope and energy in the air as more and more people are getting vaccinated (including me) in
4/12/2021
17 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of April 12, 2021. Plaid Raised $425M Series D led by Altimeter Capital
View this email in your browser 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
4/5/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of April 5, 2021. Coursera went IPO
View this email in your browser The need for technological change in education has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the United Nations, 1.6 billion students in 190 countries,
3/29/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of March 29, 2021. FAAMG Acquired 28 Startups in 2020
View this email in your browser Congrats to Jonathan, Daniel, and the Anyroad team for raising Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. I am honored to be an investor and part of their journey since 2015!
3/22/2021
0 : 4
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of March 22, 2021. Stripe and Plaid Raised $1.2B Combined
View this email in your browser $1.2 billion in funding went to two fintech infrastructure companies (Stripe and Plaid) this week. Stripe is now valued at $95 billion and became the second most highly
1/25/2021
16 : 14
Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of December 14, 2020. Airbnb $100B IPO
View this email in your browser 2020 is one very strange year. While a pandemic is still raging, the US economy has devastated many small businesses and working people. Meanwhile, Wall Street appears
1/25/2021
16 : 14
Silicon Valley Funding News. We Made it to 2021
View this email in your browser We finally made it to 2021! Silicon Valley took a real break this past week with zero funding, no M&A, nor IPO. Thank you for making Silicon.news and my updates a