ServiceTitan's shares closed up 42.25% at $101 in its Nasdaq debut, giving the cloud software provider an ~$8.9B market cap after it raised ~$625M in its IPO
All topics — Top of the Morning — David Bonderman … Financial Times : Live news: ServiceTitan shares pop 42% in debut Bluesky: Chirag Mehta / @chirag : A good signal that the m...
London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to write and maintain code, raised $125M across seed and Series A, sources say at a $500M+ post-money valuation
This includes a $25M Seed from April, led by boldstart ventures & GV …
Index Ventures, an early investor in Mistral and Cohere, closed $2.3B to chase AI breakthroughs and says that 50%+ of its recent investments have been in AI
an $800m venture fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund. https://www.indexventures.com/ ... [video] @indexventures : Our north star will always be the founder. We don't do deals. We b...
Index Ventures, an early investor in Mistral and Cohere, closed $2.3B to chase AI breakthroughs and says that 50%+ of its recent investments have been in AI
an $800m venture fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund. https://www.indexventures.com/ ... [video] @indexventures : Our north star will always be the founder. We don't do deals. We b...
Index Ventures, an early investor in Mistral and Cohere, closed $2.3B to chase AI breakthroughs and says that 50%+ of its recent investments have been in AI
an $800m venture fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund. https://www.indexventures.com/ ... [video] @indexventures : Our north star will always be the founder. We don't do deals. We b...
Paris- and New York-based Adaptive ML, which helps businesses build custom tools with open-source generative AI models, raised a $20M seed led by Index Ventures
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted :
Notion raises $275M led by Coatue Management and Sequoia at a $10B valuation; the company was reportedly valued at $2B in April
keep in mind that re-centralization (never called that but in the DNA) is always at the core of big valuations. BTW I think Notion is terrific. https://twitter.com/... @can : I'm h...
Turkey-based Dream Games, which makes the popular mobile game Royal Match, raises $155M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Makers Fund at a $1B valuation
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Discord acquires augmented reality startup Ubiquity6, which had raised $37.5M and recently pivoted to become a collaborative service for simple online games
Today, I'm excited to announce that Discord has acquired Ubiquity6! Jordan Major / Finbold : Discord acquires AR and video chat startup Ubiquity6 for an undisclosed price Babafemi ...
Squarespace stock closed down ~9% at $43.65, after opening at $48 per share, valuing the company at ~$5.9B, well below its $10B valuation in March
Bloomberg :
GOAT Group, operator of online sneaker marketplace GOAT, has raised $100M Series E from D1 Capital Partners, source says at a $1.75B valuation
up from $550 million prior to its new $100 million raise. The company plans to continue expanding into new product categories beyond sneakers. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ Bran...
Peanut, a social network originally for moms but now for all women, raises $12M Series A led by EQT Ventures, bringing the total raised to $21.8M
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Robinhood raises $280M Series F led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $8.3B, and says it's added 3M funded accounts since the beginning of the year
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
As France announces new rules that make it easier for startups to grant stock options to employees, a look at stock option taxation in other European countries
Emmanuel Macron likes to style himself as a different kind of politician. Fittingly for a former banker …
Atomico: European startups are likely to receive a record $34.3B in VC investments in 2019, with US-based VCs accounting for about $10B
Alex Konrad / Forbes : Tweets: @kateclarktweets , @jasonlk , @alexrkonrad , and @indexventures . Thanks: @alexrkonrad Tweets: Kate Clark / @kateclarktweets : “More money is flowin...
Collaborative presentation software startup Pitch launches in private beta and raises $30M Series B led by Thrive Capital
The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact that brought us to an interesting moment in technology: some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous as they may be …