LATEST NEWS ON PRE IPO COMPANIES
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End of Year VALUATIONS
During the last part of the year we update our analytical monitors and charts, in order to be ready to lead syndication of deals from January next year. We thought you may be interested in a short update of where the names we follow are trading.

Addepar Lands Firmwide Deal With RBC Wealth Management
Addepar, a fast-growing financial-technology provider, has reached a deal with RBC Wealth Management-U.S. to deploy its platform.

Impossible Foods raises $500 mln
Impossible Foods has raised nearly $500 million in a funding round led by existing shareholder Mirae Asset Global Investments, highlighting a surge in investor appetite for fast-growing plant-based meat makers.

The Year Of The Decacorn: 2021 Shatters Records For Number Of New Startups Valued At $10B+
More new startups valued at $10 billion or above have been minted in 2021—far more than in any prior year, and double the number created in 2020, which set the previous record for new “decacorns,” as these highly valued companies are known.

15 Years Of BlaBlaCar
The goal is to stay independent and at some point, that means most likely you become a public company. By the back end of 2022, we should be demonstrating operating leverage that would put us in a reasonable position to IPO at that time.
IPOs and SPACs seem poised for a hot Q4, with Instacart and Rivian leading the way
The U.S. IPO and SPAC markets rolled on during Q3 at their strongest clip since at least the dot-com boom, and experts see no signs of a slowdown in Q4. They expect Instacart (ICART), Rivian (RIVN) and other hot names to either go public or at least file for IPOs or direct listings during the new quarter.

Elon Musk reportedly lives in a $50,000 prefab tiny home
Las Vegas-based Boxabl is creating the $49,500 Casita, a 375-square-foot prefab tiny home.
Elon Musk reportedly lives in a Casita, which already has a 47,000-person waitlist.
Take a tour inside the tiny home, which has a bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen.

DataRobot raises $250 million for enterprise AI
DataRobot, a Boston-based enterprise AI company, has quietly raised around $250 million in new funding led by existing investors Altimeter Capital Management and Tiger Global at around a $6 billion pre-money valuation, Axios has learned.

Confluent Prepares For $713 Million IPO
Confluent has filed proposed terms for its $713 million IPO.
The firm provides an IT infrastructure as a service platform to enterprises globally.
CFLT has grown revenue and gross profit but is generating high operating losses and the IPO appears expensive, so I'll watch it from the sidelines.

Addepar Valued at $2.17 Billion as Investors Bet on Wealth-Management Tech
Addepar Valued at $2.17 Billion as Investors Bet on Wealth-Management Tech

‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games Valued at Nearly $29 Billion in Funding Round
Videogame company raises $1 billion from new and existing investors including Sony Group

Report: Discord ends acquisition talks with Microsoft
MICROSOFT’S BID TO BUY DISCORD IS OVER — FOR NOW, AT LEAST.

Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion
IPO contender UiPath extends automation offering with Cloud Elements buy

INSTACART AMONG 10 Major Upcoming IPOs to Watch
