2021-12-09
1/Congrats to the entire @monzo team on this milestone after a difficult 2020 - Raised $500M at $4.5B valuation and on an amazing trajectory https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
UK digital bank Monzo raises $500M led by Abu Dhabi Growth Fund at a $4.5B valuation; sources say it is exploring products like stock and crypto trading
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2021-09-17
1/ Congrats to the *incredible* @Whatnot team on this milestone https://techcrunch.com/... via @techcrunch
TechCrunch
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021
2021-06-11
Congratulations to the @faire_wholesale (YC W17) team on this round! You have had to move so fast with all the changes in the market (online trade shows, neighborhood, UK). Always amazed at how fast this team ships & they have a high bar for quality! https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Online wholesale marketplace Faire, aimed at small retailers and brands, raises $260M led by Sequoia Capital at a $7B valuation
launching in Europe, beating all projections, and reaching $1B in annual volume in only 4 years. Shopping local is on! And now, another milestone.... https://news.faire.com/... Del...
2021-03-24
“We have always wanted to fund as many great founders as possible and are convinced that in the incoming torrent of applications there are hundreds of startups with epic potential, if we could only work with them and make them part of the YC community” https://blog.ycombinator.com/ ...
TechCrunch
YC's W21 batch featured 43 Indian startups, a new record, and had 350 startups in total, of which 50% were based outside the US, the highest percentage to date
W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. Fifty percent of the firms, the highest percentage to date, in the new batch are based outside of the US. India is the second-largest d...
2021-03-19
“Over just the last six months, transaction volume on the OpenSea NFT marketplace has grown over 100x” Congrats @dfinzer @xanderatallah and the OpenSea (YCW18) team! https://twitter.com/...
Fortune
OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, raises $23M Series A led by a16z Crypto, says $95M in digital merchandise was sold on the service in Feb., up from $8M in Jan.
When CryptoKitties roared onto the scene in 2017, most people regarded the collectible digital cats, which were tied to and encapsulated …
2020-06-23
This is a super thoughtful post from the amazing @Tracy_Young - thank you for sharing your story Tracy! https://tracy.posthaven.com/ ...
Tracy writes
Former CEO of PlanGrid, a construction software provider that was acquired by Autodesk, details her experiences of being a female founder
Not a lot is written about being a female founder and CEO. I used to believe that my journey as a startup founder was the same as any other founder's experience … Tweets: @tracy_y...