Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Zoom raised.
The transaction that ended Zoom's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | IPO | Apr 2019 | US$356.8m (A$507m) | Women's Agenda, Startup Daily |
Companies Zoom acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Zoom. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Forbes Australia reports Xero's board lifted CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy's potential pay to US$18.5 million, mostly equity vesting over three years, and now requires her to hold shares worth five times her salary.
Tidal Ventures explains why it has invested in SecurePII, a voice-compliance startup whose platform redacts payment card data from calls, covering market timing, product, channel model, founders and seed-stage plans.
Canva launched an employee share sale valuing the design software firm at $42 billion, led by Fidelity with JPMorgan's asset arm joining, ahead of a planned IPO; US rival Figma listed last month.
Canva has hired Zoom finance chief Kelly Steckelberg as its new CFO, nine months after Damien Singh's exit, as the design software firm weighs a US float.
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A Blackbird partner argues AI has revived vertical software by turning hard-to-sell customers into product-led buyers, noting the firm recently backed three such startups and recalling Aconex's sale to Oracle.
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Scalare Partners announces its investment in Brauz, an omnichannel retail platform, and that chief executive Carolyn Breeze will take a non-executive board seat at Brauz.
Superloop's board has rejected Aussie Broadband's merger proposal as too low, with Aussie already holding a 19.9% stake; the piece also recalls Superloop's VostroNet purchase and Aussie's Symbio buyout.
OIF Ventures' year in review: full Eftsure exit, Opportunity Fund close, Visory, DataMasque and Nullify backed, follow-ons at Inspace and Dataweavers, new team members and portfolio milestones.
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Atlassian is buying US video-messaging firm Loom for $1.5 billion in a mostly-cash deal, folding its async video tool into Jira, Confluence and Trello while it stays standalone; regulatory sign-off still pending.
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Fingerprint for Success, an AI coaching platform, has closed a $6.5 million second seed round led by Investible, with Canva's founders investing again; its lifetime funding now totals $9.2 million.
Fingerprint for Success, maker of AI coach Marlee, raised $5 million in an Investible-led seed round, lifting total funding to $9 million, with participation from Five V Capital, Salesforce Ventures and several high-profile angels.
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Data management vendor Cohesity has named former VMware executive Sanjay Poonen as its CEO and president, with founder Mohit Aron shifting to a technology and product role while staying on the board.
Blackbird announces its NZ Fund has backed Carepatron's pre-seed round, profiling founders Jamie Frew and David Pene and their all-in-one practice management software for small healthcare providers.
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup covers Linktree's unicorn raise, several Australian funding rounds, Tiger and Insight's new mega-funds, falling SaaS valuations, the ACCC's action against Meta, and new accelerator and product launches.
Customer research platform Dovetail has raised US$63 million led by Accel at a near-unicorn valuation, with Blackbird and Felicis also taking part, as co-founders Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers plan global growth.