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 billion round led by Softbank.
Who else is leading these mega rounds? Here is a short list:
Franklin Templeton Investments led the $1B round for Databricks
Ribbit Capital led the $1B round for Robinhood
Sequoia led $850M round for SpaceX
Coatue and Alkeon Capital led $750M round for UiPath
Coatue led $590M round for Sila Nanotechnologies
Advent International and Oaktree Capital Management led $750M round for Thrasio
Allianz X, AXA Group, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity led $600M round for Stripe
Matrix Capital Management led $525M round for ElevateBio
This week a total of 25 startups raised $1.3B in funding, 1 M&As:
$314.4M goes to 11 Enterprise startups
$425M goes to 1 FinTech startup
$5.3M goes to 1 Crypto startup
$4M goes to 1 Education startup
$45M goes to 2 FoodTech startups
$260.3M goes to 4 Healthcare startups
$58.5M goes to 2 BioTech startups
$12M goes to 1 Robotics startup
$37.5M goes to 2 Logistics startups
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