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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.)

Khosla Funds $37M Boost for Inkitt’s AI-Driven Self-Publishing Platform, Revolutionizing Book Creation

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The startup’s eponymous app lets people self-publish stories, and then, using AI and data science, it selects what it believes are the most compelling of these to tweak and subsequently distribute and sell on a second app, Galatea. The $37 million, a Series C, is being led by Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures. The investment brings the total raised by Inkitt to date to $117 million (other rounds included a $3.9 million seed; a $16 million Series A and a $59 million Series B). The average number of books read (and completed) has also dropped to around 5. “Inkitt is doing just that with stories, creating content that is hyper-personalized and meaningful to every person.”