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Digital identity network startup ID.me raises $100M on unicorn valuation of $1.5B

May 12, 2021

Digital identity network startup ID.me Inc. has raised $100 million in new funding to build out its secure digital identity network by expanding the number of businesses and government agencies it serves. The Series C round...

VentureBeat

Copado raises $96 million for Salesforce-native DevOps

May 12, 2021

Copado, a developer operations (DevOps) platform built for Salesforce, has closed a $96 million series B round co-led by Insight Partners and Salesforce Ventures. This follows an initial $26 million series B investment Copado...

Business Insider

A wave of innovation is transforming IPOs. 3 insiders lay out what changes are next – and what could bring it all crashing down.

February 8, 2021

A summary of Mitchell Green, Kim Posnett, & Greg Rodgers commentary on the IPO markets with Dakin Campbell of Insider...

Business Insider

WATCH: Three of the world’s foremost IPO experts break down the current boom in tech offerings and explain why the bull market still has legs

February 8, 2021

Watch the full webinar with Mitchell Green, Kim Posnett, and Greg Rodgers discussing the IPO market...

Fierce Healthcare

Health tech startup H1 lands $58M series B to build out ‘LinkedIn for healthcare’

May 12, 2021

The New York City-based health technology company has experienced explosive growth in 2020 and just raised a $58 million series round of funding, co-led by growth-stage investment firm IVP and Menlo Ventures....

Enterprise Times

Immedis get $50 million in funding

May 12, 2021

Immedis, a leading provider of consolidated global payroll solutions, has raised $50 million in a strategic investment led by Lead Edge Capital. It last raised funding in Jun 2019 when Scottish Equity Partners led a €25 million...

Fierce Healthcare

Well Health scores $45M in series C funding, taps Haven executive to lead payer partnerships

April 2, 2021

The company scored a $45 million series C funding round led by Lead Edge Capital. It's the first investment publicly announced by the company, which has raised $75 million since its founding in 2015....

Protocol

FIVE QUESTIONS WITH… Lead Edge Capital’s Mitchell Green

October 19, 2020

An investor in Uber, Duo Security and Spotify, New York-based Green just closed a new $950 million fund from an extensive LP base....

Wall Street Journal

Technology Investor Lead Edge Capital Raises $950 Million as VC Sector Swells

October 14, 2020

Lead Edge Capital raised a $950 million fund for growth-stage technology investing, adding to the already soaring fundraising total for the sector. Lead Edge Capital V LP, which closed at its hard...

Business Insider

A VC who backed Uber, Spotify, Asana, and Alibaba just raised a new $950 million fund. He says the secret to success is finding CEOs who won’t return his call.

October 14, 2020

Mitchell Green, founder and managing partner at Lead Edge Capital, is one of the most successful, under-the-radar venture capitalists in tech. His firm's portfolio reads like a unicorn's all-star list: Alibaba, Asana, Bird, Bumble,...

TechCrunch

Lead Edge Capital Just Closed On $950 Million From A Whopping 500 Investors

October 14, 2020

Lead Edge Capital announces an oversubscribed Fund V with $950M from over 500 investors, bringing total capital raised since inception to over $3B...

Venture Capital Journal

Growth-stage investor Lead Edge Capital raises $950m

October 14, 2020

New York-based Lead Edge Capital, which invests in software and internet start-ups, announced it's raised $950 million for its fifth and largest fund. Lead Edge Capital V was oversubscribed and received commitments from...

Business Insider

Armory just raised $40 million in funding from investors like B Capital, Lead Edge Capital, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to ’empower’ developers

October 14, 2020

Startup Armory, which builds software products powered by a hot open source project from Google and Netflix, announced a $40 million Series C round of funding on Tuesday led by B Capital,...

Business Insider

Some VCs are clamoring for more startups to ditch investment bankers for direct listings, but one VC who backed both Asana and Spotify says he ‘doesn’t care’ how companies go public

September 8, 2020

Mitchell Green, founder of Lead Edge Capital, (a growth fund with $2 billion under management) had been involved in two of the four pending direct listings, Spotify and upcoming Asana. He says when...

Business Insider

Startup CEOs explain how skipping the formal startup pitch process helped them forge better long-term relationships with their VCs: ‘It’s like getting married’

September 8, 2020

Application performance monitoring startup Grafana Labs was generating enough buzz and inbound interest from investors that it decided to try something new when it needed fresh funding: It would talk to VCs...

PRNewswire

CUDDLY Inc. Raises $4 Million In Series A Funding From Lead Edge Capital

September 2, 2020

CUDDLY, a mission-driven fundraising platform dedicated to helping animal welfare organizations worldwide, closed a $4 million Series A round. The round is being led by Lead Edge Capital, a growth-stage investment fund...

TechCrunch

LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M

August 27, 2020

Now the city’s enterprise tech scene can claim a really big winner with Signal Sciences, the security monitoring and management company that is getting bought by Fastly, a provider of content delivery...

GeekWire

Barn2Door raises $6M as demand rises for its software used by farmers to sell food online

August 26, 2020

The pandemic is increasing demand for grocery and food delivery. Seattle startup Barn2Door is riding this trend and just raised $6 million to support its growth with participation from Lead Edge Capital...

GlobeNewswire

Grafana Labs Raises $50 Million to Accelerate R&D Investments in Open Source Logs, Metrics and Composable Observability

August 17, 2020

Grafana Labs announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round, led by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lead Edge Capital...

Forbes

Biotech R&D Software Startup Benchling, Started By MIT Undergrads, Scores $850 Million Valuation Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

May 28, 2020

Sajith Wickramasekara started working on an idea for a cloud-based Crispr design tool for scientists during college at MIT eight years ago. Today, researchers at Regeneron, Gilead and other biotech giants rely...

Forbes

Next Billion Dollar Startups

May 28, 2020

Four Lead Edge portfolio companies are featured in Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups List: Benchling, Signal Sciences, Weave, and Algolia...

Geekwire

‘Our product was built for times like these’: Seattle startup Knock raises $12M

May 6, 2020

Lead Edge Capital participates in Knock's Series B. Knock, a leading CRM platform for the multi-family industry, has seen rapid growth as operators need cloud workflow solutions and better accountability across teams....

CNBC

Start-up gets $1 billion valuation virtually, as coronavirus shifts Silicon Valley hunt for IPO riches

May 5, 2020

As investors raise the bar for potential investments, Lead Edge Capital founding and managing partner Mitchell Green is looking at opportunities in cyber security and collaboration platforms across workflow, chat, and video...

CNBC

BofA analyst Wamsi Mohan explains his ‘buy’ rating on Apple

May 5, 2020

Wamsi Mohan, Bank of America Securities senior equity research analyst, and Mitchell Green, founding and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital, join "Squawk Box" to discuss Apple's quarterly earnings results and the...