Anaplan raised its first venture capital funding within a year of its first sales in 2010.[21] In 2012, the company raised $11.4 million in Series B financing from investors that included Granite Ventures and Shasta Ventures.[22]
With $90 Million In New Funding And Unicorn Status, Anaplan Looks Ahead to IPO
The startup, founded in York, North East England, has raised $90 million (62 million) in a Series E funding round at a valuation of $1.1 billion (760 million) for its web-based business-planning and operations platform that competes with products from Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft.
This hand-lending approach to user-friendliness has led WalkMe to become a bonafide unicorn with an ARR over $100 million, and the company is still showing signs of growth. Last year, the company landed $90 million in Series G funding, which will drive market expansion into areas including Latin America. WalkMe already serves 30 percent of Fortune 500 companies, counting over 2000 customers as of 2020.
It now serves over 10% of Fortune 500 companies. Since achieving unicorn status, the company has joined forces with the rapidly-growing cybersecurity provider Fire Eye, further enhancing its appeal to businesses seeking top-tier data protection.
Headquartered in New York with datacenters spread out across the globe, DigitalOcean provides cloud services to scale and deploy applications across many computers simultaneously. The third-largest hosting company in the world, they recently closed $50 million in a Series C funding round from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Access Industries, bringing their valuation up to $1.15 billion.
Databricks AI is currently being used by Virgin Hyperloop to speed up its data processes as it works on building the next generation of travel while navigating the infrastructure and policies that go along with it. Databricks raised $250 million in funding last February, and another $400 million in October 2019. The company has grown rapidly since its founding as a 2013 UC Berkeley lab project.
Pipedrive is a cloud-based SaaS company headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia and New York, NY, with other offices scattered across the globe. Their web and mobile app is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool designed to improve business productivity, and ultimately boost sales. The company currently has over 500 employees, and more than 90,000 customers worldwide. They have raised over $90 million in venture funding, mostly from Bessemer Venture Partners, Paua Ventures, Atomico, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.
In 2019, Schoology was acquired by PowerSchool, the market leader in K-12 education technologies boasting over 45 million students and counting. Together, they are providing tools for educators and students around the world, while generating revenue approaching $500 million. Schoology, fueled in partnership with PowerSchool, looks very much like the classroom of the future.
In June 2016, after years of increased private funding, Twilio went public and started trading with a 92% increase on the first day. Since then, it has carried this momentum into 2022 and delivered another strong quarter to start the year, with first quarter revenue coming in at $875 million, representing 48% year-over-year growth. As of March 31, 2022, the platform has 268,000 active customer accounts, compared to 235,000 on March 31, 2021.
In 2022, Highspot closed a Series F round of funding, raising $248 million with a post-money valuation of $3.5 billion. As a global enterprise powered by a diverse workforce of more than 800 professionals, the company has earned perennial recognition on Fortune Magazine's and Glassdoor's Best Places to Work lists. 2ff7e9595c
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