The Day in SaaS 11.16.21: Amazon Roll-Ups, A $525M WeWork Rescue, Mixpanel is Back, and Palantir Soars
AnyDesk, a maker of remote desktop software, raises $70M at a $660M+ valuation. Work-from-home plays continue to be everywhere, and strong.
‘Crypto Is Culture’: After One-Upping Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm Founders Open Up. An incredible run so far by crypto VC fund Paradigm, with a fresh $2.5 BILLION.
Tech Insiders Dave Morin And Brit Morin Are Back With $100 Million Venture Fund Offline Ventures. More founders with funds.
Announcing $400 Million in Series G Funding at a $12.4 Billion Valuation - Faire Newsroom. There are multiple unicorns and decacorns in Amazon store rollups now. Multiple.
Open Source IPO Boom: What GitLab And Confluent Show Us About The Future Of Software. A quick look at the latest in COSS.
Conductor raises $150M at a $525M valuation to build out its search-based, organic marketing technology. An incredible rebound from being essentially a discarded acquisition by WeWork.
Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands on the Amazon marketplace universe. More massive investment in Amazon marketplace roll-ups.
Seven years after last venture investment, Mixpanel scores $200M Series C. Mixpanel was redhot in the last wave of SaaS, and then struggled. But it’s back and stronger after Covid.
Palantir Stock's Q3 Earnings Show Cost Improvement But No Profits (Again) (NYSE:PLTR). Palantir remains a $1B+ ARR enterprise winner. Even with a very odd mix of customers and tech.
ThoughtSpot Raises At $4.2 Billion Valuation As It Wraps Up Transition To The Cloud. ThoughtSpot is the latest to accelerate as it scales up its SaaS business. Analytics are hot again.
Latest video: Jason Lemkin + Aaron Levie on Box at $1B in ARR: