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Khosla and Founders Fund Co-Lead $150 Million Boost for Ramp, Valuing Company at $7.65B

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Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a post-money valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. New investor Khosla Ventures and existing backer Founders Fund co-led the raise, which also included participation from new backers Sequoia Capital, Greylock and 8VC. Other existing investors Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Sands Capital, D1 Capital, Lux Capital, Iconiq Capital, Definition Capital, Contrary Capital also put money into the latest round. Apparently, there were no hard feelings on the part of Founders Fund, which still participated in the financing, even without Rabois. (It’s worth noting that Rabois originally represented Founders Fund and has sat on Ramp’s board since 2019.)

Ramp CEO: Fintech Startup Primed for Limitless Growth, Says CEO

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Despite all that growth, Eric Gylman, the co-founder and CEO of Ramp thinks that the industry, and companies like his, are just scratching the surface. Glyman and his current co-founder Karim Atiyeh launched their first fintech startup, Paribus, back in 2014. The company raised a mere $2 million before getting snapped up by Capital One. When the team was building Paribus, the generative AI technology to craft the emails was still relatively rudimentary and the rest of the company’s AI technology was built on very simple language models. The startup has raised more than $1.7 billion from venture capitalists and was last valued at $5.8 billion in August 2023.