The COVID-19 pandemic has played havoc with economies all over the world, sending markets into crisis and many workers into joblessness. But businesses exist, in a sense, to succeed financially by solving the needs of clients. And in the case of an emergency like a global pandemic where millions were forced to shelter at home and work remotely, the needs begin to become dire. It stands to reason, then, that some companies will succeed by being the product or service that happens to be needed during a time of transition and crisis. Here are 33 companies, in fact, that managed to raise money during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many prepared for the new normal that was no arriving with the speed of a bullet train. And they didn’t just raise some money – they all raised at least $100M of new funding from private equity and venture capital funding rounds.
About the Company: Rivian is an automotive technology company that develops products and services to advance the shift to sustainable mobility. The company creates solutions that redefine traditional automotive economics and remove the pain points of conventional ownership. It also manufactures autonomous electric vehicles intended to offer a comfortable and eco-friendly drive experience.
Latest Funding Round: $2.5B
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About the Company: Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook use the company’s software to accept online payments and run complex global operations. Stripe combines economic infrastructure with a set of applications for new business models like crowdfunding and marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and more. Stripe navigates global regulatory uncertainty and partners closely with internet leaders like Apple, Google, Alipay, Tencent, Facebook, Twitter to launch new capabilities.
Latest Funding Round: $600M
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About the Company: Altitude Infrastructure is a pioneer operator in the telecommunications infrastructure sector, where it accompanies the community for over 10 years to design, build, operate, and market network telecommunications x. AI aims to address the complex and multiple needs of communities in terms of land use, specifically in areas of low or medium density. The company has grown thanks to his mastery of all wireless and wireline technologies (fiber optic, xDSL, WiMAX, WiFi) proposing solutions High access and high-speed broadband (wired or wireless), from detached dwellings to the most dense areas.
Latest Funding Round: $592M
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About the Company: Bright Health develops a health insurance service platform designed to deliver quality healthcare experiences. It offers health insurance that connects users to various physicians and healthcare services. The company provides its health insurance plans directly to consumers via broker partners, and through public and private health insurance exchanges. Bright Health gives providers the tools they need to optimize their practices and deliver value-based care to the patients they serve.
Latest Funding Round: $500M
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About the Company: Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale. The company was founded with a goal to create honest financial products and services that empower consumers and improve lives. It aims to revolutionize the banking industry to be more accountable and accessible to consumers. Today, Affirm provides millions of shoppers an alternative to traditional credit cards at the point of sale, giving them the flexibility to buy now and make simple monthly payments for their purchases
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About the Company: Zwift is a provider of an interactive fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling and running workouts into dynamic and social adventures. Its platform connects users to physical indoor trainers so that cyclists can pedal inside while immersed in any number of virtual landscapes on a screen in front of them that enable users to join in rides together with friends. Zwift uses gaming technology to bring the outdoor experience indoors, making at-home exercise fun, and engaging.
Latest Funding Round: $450M
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About the Company: goPuff allows users the joy of browsing the shelves without the hassle of going to the store. It takes seconds to navigate the goPuff app and minutes for goPuff’s Driver-Partners to deliver the customer’s needs and wants. goPuff’s strategically located facilities cut out the middleman allowing for a flat fee of $1.95. goPuff’s success has allowed the company to support important causes. In March 2020 goPuff committed to $1 million in orders to hospital workers fighting COVID-19.
Latest Funding Round: $380M
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About the Company: Fanatics, the market leader for licensed sports merchandise, offers the largest assortment of fan gear via its Fanatics, FansEdge, Kitbag, and Majestic brands, as well as the largest selection of sports collectibles and memorabilia through Fanatics Authentic. A multi-faceted, technology-driven company, Fanatics operates more than 300 online and offline stores for the biggest brands in sports, including the e-commerce business for major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and more than 200 collegiate and professional team properties across the globe.
Latest Funding Round: $350M
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About the Company: Freenome is a biotech company developing accurate, accessible, and non-invasive disease screening products for proactively treating cancer and other diseases at their most manageable stages. The company is developing a simple blood test to detect early-stage cancer and make treatments more effective and provides a platform that helps design healthy conditions for an individual based on his/her cell-free genome. The company aims to reinvent disease management through systematized early detection and intervention.
Latest Funding Round: $270M
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About the Company: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. The company’s platform offers an open-source technology that acts as a real-time, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable messaging system, enabling companies to move data from isolated systems into a real-time data pipeline where they can act on it immediately.
Latest Funding Round: $250M
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About the Company: Snyk helps software-driven organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies and container images. The company is a developer-first security company that helps organizations use open-source code and stay secure. The startup provides a tool that is used by developers to scan their code for vulnerable open-source components. Most enterprise applications incorporate open-source components and consequently are vulnerable to any security exploits that may be hiding in those files. Snyk’s tool flags exploits and gives developers tips on how to fix them.
Latest Funding Round: $200M
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About the Company: Gong.io provides a sales conversation intelligence platform created to improve calls and demos for sales teams. Its sales platform is cloud-based and utilizes artificial intelligence automatically to record, transcribe, and analyzes every sales conversation and calls and also analyze conversations from audio sources and web-conferencing platforms such as Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, and Zoom, and then links the results to CRM systems, enabling organizations to save time, increase win rates, improve strategic decision-making, and increase revenue.
Latest Funding Round: $200M
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About the Company: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.
Latest Funding Round: $200M
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About the Company: Impossible Foods is a company developing plant-based substitutes for meat, dairy, and fish products. It selects specific proteins and nutrients from greens, seeds, and grains to recreate the experience of meats and dairy products. The company’s approach: understand what people love about meat, dairy, and fish, and then explore the plant world for specific ingredients that recreate those experiences.
Latest Funding Round: $200M
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About the Company: Sendinblue is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationships through digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.
Latest Funding Round: $160M
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About the Company: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that empowers companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage. Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end-customers, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, productivity, and cost savings. Over 1,400 innovative enterprises around the world, including IBM, Acxiom, and Zumiez rely on Talkdesk to power their customer interactions.
Latest Funding Round: $143M
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About the Company: Beyond Limits is an Industrial and Enterprise-grade AI technology company that covers the full range of Artificial Intelligence, purpose-built for the most demanding sectors, including energy, utilities, and healthcare (as well as finance). Beyond traditional artificial intelligence, Beyond Limits has developed powerful Cognitive AI that unifies human knowledge with machine learning techniques. Its technology provides decision-makers with efficient, reliable guidance and clear, understandable recommendations for everyday operational challenges to the most complex, mission-critical situations.
Latest Funding Round: $133M
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About the Company: Auth0 operates a cloud-based identity platform for developers. It provides Auth0, a web-scale cloud solution that includes APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the friction of authentication and authorization of their applications and APIs. Auth0 enables users to single sign-on for applications running on various platforms with various identity providers; add few lines of JavaScript to power their applications; customize various stages of the authentication and authorization pipeline, and connect their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords.
Latest Funding Round: $120M
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About the Company: Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear at a revolutionary price operating as a socially conscious business. Approximately one billion people don’t have access to affordable glasses. Glasses can increase one’s income by 20%, enable students to see a blackboard, and offer dignity to those with poor eyesight. Warby Parker works with experienced non-profit partners to ensure that each sale of our frames will give someone in need access to affordable glasses.
Latest Funding Round: $120M
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About the Company: Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. In nine years, its gaming titles have been downloaded over 2 billion times, providing fun to millions of people every day, everywhere. Wildfire aspires to develop games that will be remembered by generations. To achieve this goal, it pursues being best-in-class in each of our major disciplines: Product, Engineering, Art, Marketing, and Data.
Latest Funding Round: $120M
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About the Company: Affinivax is a biotechnology company developing a novel conjugation technology with the goal of designing vaccines that provide broad protection against challenging diseases afflicting children and adults in both the developing and developed worlds. This novel and highly efficient vaccine conjugation technology – named MAPS for Multiple Antigen Presenting System – has the potential to deliver novel vaccines that offer broader disease coverage than existing vaccines, as well as protect against infectious diseases for which there are no effective immunization strategies today.
Latest Funding Round: $120M
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About the Company: Accellion enables enterprise organizations to securely connect all their content to the people and systems that are part of their critical business processes. Accellion’s secure file sharing platform provides CISOs full control of their content to mitigate the risk of a data breach, ransomware attack, or another form of data loss.
Latest Funding Round: $120M
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About the Company: Vacasa is a full-service vacation rental company that drives revenue for homeowners and provides unforgettable experiences for guests. The company manages a growing portfolio of more than 14,000 vacation homes in the U.S, Europe, Central, and South America; and South Africa. In nine years, Vacasa has grown from two to more than 2,500 employees.
Latest Funding Round: $108M
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About the Company: Razorpay is a platform that enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments with its product suite. It gives access to all payment modes including credit card, debit card, net banking, UPI, and popular wallets including JioMoney, Mobikwik, Airtel Money, FreeCharge, Ola Money, and PayZapp.
Latest Funding Round: $100M
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About the Company: Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life. The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness.
Latest Funding Round: $100M
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About the Company: GoodRx is the first and only prescription drug price comparison tool created for consumers with prices from pharmacies nationwide. GoodRx’s founders are seasoned technology executives who were early employees at Facebook, Yahoo, and other successful companies.
Latest Funding Round: $100M
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About the Company: Sema4 is a patient-centered predictive health company dedicated to advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. With their innovative Sema4 Health Intelligence Platform, they’re using advanced network analysis to build better models of human health and deliver personalized insights for patients.
Latest Funding Round: $121M
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