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Adam Williams
(Building awesome @BuyerDeck. Startups, Org Culture and creating special companies. Serial hungover snapchatter. Beginner Chess player. Wannabe product manager.)
Today Automattic announced it has closed a new $300 million Series D, with Salesforce Ventures taking the entire round. This puts us at a post-round valuation of $3 billion, three times what it was after our last fundraising round in 2014. It's a…
Wall Street Journal
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Peter Rudegeair
– Sep 19, 10:00 AM
Stripe Inc. climbed closer to the top ranks of the highest-priced U.S. startups after a new fundraising round valued the financial-technology company at $35 billion. Venture-capital firms Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz…
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and soon Tumblr, has closed a $300 million funding round at a $3 billion post-money valuation. The Series D round has a single investor, Salesforce Ventures. Founding rounds are something…
About 18 months ago, Jenny Gyllander created an Instagram account by the name @thingtesting. The premise was simple. Gyllander, who was at the center of the London startup ecosystem as an investor with the British seed fund Backed.VC, would upload…
