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More firms are incubating companies as early-stage valuations rise.
A few successes:
• Snowflake ($49B mrkt cap) by Sutter Hill Ventures
• Affirm ($6B mrkt cap) by HVF Labs
• Hims & Hers ($1.3B mrkt cap) by Atomic
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Spark Capital
sparkcapital.com
Wow Klaviyo is a new record for Founder-CEO ownership at IPO: 38.1%
Edges out Atlassian co-founders just a smidge who were at 37.7%
(although Atlassian co-founders together owned more and are still #1)
Really helps to burn almost nothing on the way to IPO (just... See more
Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu Tan.
Aravind Srinivasx.com
Loom sold for $975MM
Here's a side-by-side comparison of their pre-seed and seed pitch decks: https://t.co/8bO67wdVYs
Here's a list of 40 fast-growing Series B-Series C startups on a breakout trajectory. All of these companies are hiring. They all have at least $5 million in run-rate revenue and 50-100% year-over-year growth.
1. Alloy https://t.co/90uZruQYlr (NYC)
2. Anomalo https://t.co/Bg3cGXRXlB (Bay Area)
3. Astranis https://t.co/mi1lfOJ9Dg (Bay Area)
4. Attain https://t.co/0jLdKynlfH (Chicago)
5. Aven https://t.co/9v0xEVfneq (Bay Area)
6. Chronosphere https://t.co/PmyTOtamiV (NYC)
7. Clickhouse https://t.co/1W4ORfUjJC (Remote)
8. Drata https://t.co/k4MVly014y (Southern California)
9. EvenUp https://t.co/XJiaOo5oQ0 (Remote)
10. Finix https://t.co/ydBX8CPUri (Bay Area)
11. Fireworks https://t.co/UENd5jDu51 (Bay Area)
12. Found https://t.co/RlzTGbYLUK (Bay Area)
13. Hallow https://t.co/Aas4L18XfW (Chicago)
14. Homebase https://t.co/Xkw7TFhOTY (Bay Area)
15. Horizon3 https://t.co/RKOCSxcgdt (Remote)
16. Imprint Payments https://t.co/TxaGDrMqC6 (NYC)
17. January https://t.co/8HkELzm0b0 (NYC)
18. Kalderos https://t.co/OWmDNMj3b6 (Chicago)
19. Loft Orbital https://t.co/1v0aXHzo3F (Bay Area)
20. Loop https://t.co/yZbDPUwhvi (Bay Area)
21. Marshmallow https://t.co/d2GZmun2HO (London)
22. Mashgin https://t.co/KMZfXTApEu (Bay Area)
23. Medallion https://t.co/RakOeUv8UW (Bay Area)
24. Medely https://t.co/xAJRMYPG6f (Remote)
25. Mercury https://t.co/Vcnac2l0rB (Remote)
26. Modern Treasury https://t.co/4MzpNOHTye (Bay Area)
27. Motion https://t.co/SKtJ9idPUT (Remote)
28. OpenStore https://t.co/KwcyXDIpV0 (Miami)
29. Order https://t.co/GKyylAMmzj (NYC)
30. Owner https://t.co/q4LPeKgQa3 (Remote)
31. Persona https://t.co/B5w3XeF85N (Bay Area)
32. Primer https://t.co/Uc8c1FB22K (Bay Area)
33. Runway https://t.co/P22R3DaMFQ (NYC)
34. Sardine https://t.co/Atzuq5paY8 (Miami)
35. Scribe https://t.co/HzEg4cTGrk (Bay Area)
36. Semgrep https://t.co/wKkkBAVWiC... See more
Ben Langx.com