Armed with some data from our friends at Crunchbase, I broke down the largest global startup funding rounds from the first quarter of 2021. I have included some additional information such as industry, company description, round type, founders, and total equity funding raised to further the analysis. To maintain a focus on tech-enabled companies, real estate, biotech, and lending companies were excluded. This report only contains equity fundings.
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13. Glovo €450.0M
Round: Series F
Description: Glovo is a courier service that purchases, picks up, and delivers products ordered through its mobile application.
Investors in the round: Delivery Hero, Drake Enterprises, GP Bullhound, GR Capital, Lugard Road Capital, Luxor Capital Group
Industry: Delivery, Delivery Service, Food Delivery, Local, Logistics, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Transportation
Founders: Gerard Olive, Miguel Vicente, Oscar Pierre, Sacha Michaud
Founding year: 2015
Location: Barcelona
Total equity funding raised: $1.2B
12. Attentive $470.0M
Round: Series E
Description: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Investors in the round: Base10 Partners, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, IVP, Tiger Global Management
Industry: Advertising, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Messaging, Mobile, Personalization, SaaS, Software
Founders: Andrew Jones, Brian Long, Ethan Lo
Founding year: 2016
Location: New York
Total equity funding raised: $863.0M
11. Dataminr $475.0M
Round: Series F
Description: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Investors in the round: ArrowMark Partners, DNS Capital, Eden Global, Eldridge, IVP, Lurra Capital, Moore Capital, Morgan Stanley Tactical Value, MSD Capital, Reinvent Capital, The Pritzker Organization, Valor Equity Partners
Industry: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Public Safety, Risk Management, Software
Founders: Jeff Kinsey, Sam Hendel, Theodore Bailey
Founding year: 2009
Location: New York
Total equity funding raised: $1.1B
10. ServiceTitan $500.0M
Round: Series F
Description: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
Investors in the round: Arena Holdings, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, Durable Capital Partners, H.I.G. Growth Partners, ICONIQ Growth, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Tiger Global Management
Industry: CRM, Home Services, Information Technology, Real Estate, SaaS, Software
Founders: Ara Mahdessian, Vahe Kuzoyan
Founding year: 2013
Location: Glendale
Total equity funding raised: $899.8M
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10. Ro $500.0M
Round: Series D
Description: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Investors in the round: 776 Capital, Altimeter Capital, BoxGroup, Dragoneer Investment Group, FirstMark, General Catalyst, Radcliff Group, ShawSpring Partners, SignalFire, The Baupost Group, Torch Capital, TQ Ventures
Industry: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Hospital, Wellness
Founders: Rob Schutz, Saman Rahmanian, Zachariah Reitano
Founding year: 2017
Location: New York
Total equity funding raised: $876.1M
9. Roblox $520.0M
Round: Series H
Description: Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform offering a shared digital experience that brings people together through play.
Investors in the round: Altimeter Capital, Altos Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Dragoneer Investment Group, Investment Group of Santa Barbara, Tiger Global Management, Warner Music Group
Industry: 3D Technology, Gaming, Online Games, Software, Video Games
Founders: David Baszucki, Erik Cassel
Founding year: 2004
Location: San Mateo
Total equity funding raised: $855.7M
8. Lacework $525.0M
Round: Series D
Description: Lacework is a security platform for the cloud generation of builders that provides compliance checks and automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads and services on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes.
Investors in the round: Altimeter Capital, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, Liberty Global Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Tiger Global Management
Industry: Cloud Security, Compliance, Security, Software
Founders: Mike Speiser, Sanjay Kalra, Vikram Kapoor
Founding year: 2015
Location: San Jose
Total equity funding raised: $599.0M
7. Sila Nanotechnologies $590.0M
Round: Series F
Description: Sila Nanotechnologies is a provider and manufacturer of revolutionary car batteries.
Investors in the round: #REF!
Industry: Electronics, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
Founders: Alex Jacobs, Gene Berdichevsky, Gleb Yushin, Mike Speiser
Founding year: 2011
Location: Alameda
Total equity funding raised: $875.0M
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6. Stripe $600.0M
Round: Series H
Description: Stripe is a developer-oriented commerce company helping small and large companies accept web and mobile payments.
Investors in the round: Allianz X, AXA Group, Baillie Gifford, Counterpart Advisors, Fidelity Management and Research Company, National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), Sequoia Capital
Industry: Finance, FinTech, Mobile Payments, Payments, SaaS
Founders: Patrick Collison
Founding year: 2010
Location: San Francisco
Total equity funding raised: $2.2B
5. UiPath $750.0M
Round: Series F
Description: UiPath is a software company developing robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software.
Investors in the round: Alkeon Capital, Altimeter Capital, Coatue, Dragoneer Investment Group, IVP, Sequoia Capital, T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management
Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, Robotics
Founders: Daniel Dines, Marius Tirca
Founding year: 2005
Location: New York
Total equity funding raised: $2.0B
4. SpaceX $850.0M
Round: Venture
Description: SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Investors in the round: Sequoia, Valor Equity Partners, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity
Industry: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Space Travel, Transportation
Founders: Elon Musk
Founding year: 2002
Location: Hawthorne
Total equity funding raised: $6.9B
3. Databricks $1.0B
Round: Series G
Description: Databricks is a data-and-AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Investors in the round: Alkeon Capital, Amazon Web Services, Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, CapitalG, Coatue, Discovery Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Founders Circle Capital, Franklin Templeton Investments, Geodesic Capital, GIC, Green Bay Ventures, Greenoaks Capital, Microsoft, New Enterprise Associates, Octahedron Capital, Salesforce Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management, Whale Rock Capital Management
Industry: Analytics, Information Technology, Machine Learning, SaaS, Software
Founders: Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Scott Shenker
Founding year: 2013
Location: San Francisco
Total equity funding raised: $1.9B
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2. Gopuff $1.2B
Round: Series G
Description: Gopuff is a mobile app-based digital delivery service that delivers products such as over-the-counter medicine, baby food, and alcohol.
Investors in the round: Baillie Gifford, D1 Capital Partners, Eldridge, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Luxor Capital Group, Reinvent Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund
Industry: Delivery Service, E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Mobile Apps
Founders: Rafael Ilishayev, Yakir Gola
Founding year: 2013
Location: Philadelphia
Total equity funding raised: $2.4B
1. Xingsheng Youxuan $2.0B
Round: Venture
Description: Xingsheng Youxuan is a community shopping platform that offers food and household products for consumers.
Investors in the round: FountainVest Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Primavera Capital Group, Tencent Holdings
Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Grocery, Retail, Shopping
Founders: Lihua Yue
Founding year: 2018
Location: Changshahsien
Total equity funding raised: $3.9B
