Gavin Appel from Ignition Lane and our CEO Tobi cover all the latest on whats going on inside tech, venture and IPO’s
This month, mega capital raises
- Canva raised US$200m at a US$40bn valuation
- Scalapay raised $210m led by Tiger Global
- Airwallex raised US$200m at a US$4bn valuation led by Lone Pine Capital
- SiteMinder raised over $100m led by Fidelity ahead of an IPO
- Mable raised $100m led by General Atlantic
- Who Gives A Crap* raised $41.5m – its first equity round in 10 years
- Till Payments raised $110m – Hireup raised $40m led by SEEK Investments
New VC funds
- AfterWork Ventures has $10m in commitments
- Jelix Ventures raised $15m
- Giant Leap Fund raised $15.8m
- Afterpay-backed Touch Ventures made its ASX debut, raising $100m in its IPO
- Black Nova came out of stealth mode, announcing plans to raise $20m
- Sydney-based Investible announced it is raising a $100m climate tech fund
- Global from day 1 – NZ$130m for Fund 3
- NZ VC Icehouse Ventures has secured NZ$110m for its growth fund
Big Tech Global News
- Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world
- Tesla passed $1 trillion
- Google passed $2 trillion
- Facebook is now Meta
- Atlassian passed $100 billion
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