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2018 was the year supergiant VC deals became a nearly everyday occurrence. Equity funding rounds of $100 million or more dominated the global VC market, accounting for a vanishingly small percent of total deal volume, but accounting for 56 percent of the total dollar volume.

Here’s the thing about these supergiant VC deals though. The New York Times headline from August 2018 said it simply: $100 million was once big money for a startup. Now, it’s common. In our Q4 and end-of-year analysis of the global VC market, Crunchbase News found that there were over 500 rounds in the “supergiant” size class throughout 2018, worldwide. Although we covered many of them last year, there were just too many to discuss individually.

“Supergiant” stars aren’t the absolute biggest, brightest things in the universe, though they loom larger than just about everything else. Supergiant VC rounds bent the curve of the venture market. But, there’s another size up. Hypergiant stars are many times the size of supergiant stars, and, so, it follows that hypergiant VC rounds would follow a similar pattern.

In a prior exploration of beyond-supergiant VC, Crunchbase News defined “hypergiant rounds” as any VC round of $250 million or more (at least 2.5x larger than the “supergiant” threshold). These are the deals that shine a bright and sometimes harsh light over a given market. And, at this point, there are sufficiently few of them that we can track a whole year’s worth of hypergiant deals.

So, below, you can find an ever-expanding list of hypergiant rounds from 2019, filed in reverse-chronological order based on announcement date. We’ll update this post on a weekly basis. If you’d like to check in on a more real-time basis, take a look at the query we’re using to surface these rounds.

Last updated on June 17, 2019.

June

KnowBe4

KnowBe4 is a cybersecurity training company headquartered in Clearwater, Florida. The company simulates phishing attacks on corporate email networks and trains employees on how to identify and react to these incidents.

Gympass

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Gympass works with employers to provide discounted access to gyms and other personal fitness facilities as a benefit to their employees.

May

Judo Bank

Judo Bank is an upstart financial institution serving primarily small and medium-sized enterprise clients. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia.

DoorDash

DoorDash is a San Francisco-based company facilitating on-demand food delivery services.

SpaceX

SpaceX is a rocketry and space transportation company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

According to paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 24th, SpaceX had raised $535,744,188 million in equity funding from 5 investors. The filing indicates that SpaceX intended to raise an additional $5 million in the offering, which would bring the deal’s total capital raised to $540.7 million. Identities of investors are not disclosed in Form D filings.

SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk.

According to Crunchbase data, SpaceX has raised over $3 billion to date.

Mafengwo

Mafengwo (also known as 马蜂窝) is a Beijing-based social platform company which helps people share and shop for travel experiences.

Marqeta

Based in Oakland, California, Marqeta is a financial technology company that helps businesses issue their own virtual debit and credit cards for a variety of use cases.

Deliveroo

Headquartered in London, Deliveroo is in the online food ordering and on-demand delivery business.

Impossible Foods

Based in Redwood City, CA, Impossible Foods is a food technology company that makes meat and cheese substitutes entirely from plant-based sources.

Megvii

Megvii is the Beijing, China-based artificial intelligence company behind the Face++ facial recognition engine.

Carta

Carta (formerly “eShares”) is a Palo Alto-headquartered financial technology company developing capitalization table, limited partner subscription, and other management tools for the private equity and venture capital sector.

April

Rappi

Rappi is an on-demand e-commerce and delivery platform service provider based in Bogota, Colombia.

UiPath

UiPath is a New York City-based company developing software-enabled robotic process automation (RPA) tooling.

Tencent Trusted Doctor

Tencent Trusted Doctor (also known as Tengkang Hui Medical Technology Co., Ltd.) is the product of a merger between Tencent Doctorwork and Trusted Doctors. The company is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Hozon Automobile

Hozon Automobile (合众新能源) is a Hangzhou, China-based company developing all-electric automobiles.

Hozan Automobile raised CN¥3 billion (~$447 million USD) in a Series B funding round announced on April 22, 2019. Lead and participating investors were not disclosed by the company.

The company was founded in 2014.

At the time of writing, Crunchbase does not have information on Hozon Automobile’s prior funding rounds, although at least one report indicates that the company has raised in excess of CN¥ 7 billion in total funding (inclusive of the hypergiant Series B round mentioned above).

ENOVATE Motors

ENOVATE Motors is an all-electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, China.

The company raised CN¥ 2 billion (~$298 million USD) in a Series A round announced on April 16, 2019. According to media reports linked in the Crunchbase page for the funding round, the company did not disclose the names of its financial backers. For AVCJ, Jane Li reported “the round was led by a large listed company, with participation from government guidance funds, professional investment firms,” and other investors.

The company was founded in 2015.

At time of writing, Crunchbase does not have information about pre-Series A financing raised by the company.

Lemonade

Lemonade is a “full-stack insurance company” based in New York City, New York.

Affirm

Affirm is a company which offers short-term, installment-based loans for consumer purchases at the point of sale. Affirm is based in San Francisco, California.

March

Toast

Toast is a company which makes point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for food-service and hospitality businesses. Toast is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

T3 Mobile Travel Services

T3 Mobile Travel Services is developing a ride-sharing service and self-driving car technology. It is based in Nanjing, China. The upstart is a joint venture between Chinese automakers FAW Group, Dongfeng Automobile, and Chongqing Changan Automobile, according to coverage in Reuters.

MiningLamp

MiningLamp (also known as 明略数据 or Minglue Shuju) is a Beijing, China-based predictive analytics, big data, and machine learning platform company which helps its customers build and analyze their knowledge graphs.

Ke.com

Ke.com (also known as Beike and 贝壳找房) is a Beijing, China-based real estate sales platform company. Ke.com is a relatively recent spin-out from real estate listings giant Lianjia.

The company raised $800 million in a Series D round announced on March 25, 2019. Tencent Holdings led the deal, which valued Ke.com at nearly $18 billion, post-money. Citing reports from Chinese business news site Caixin, Asia real estate news site Mingtiandi says Ke.com is seeking to raise as much as $1 billion more by the end of 2019 to continue expansion. Mingtiandi calculates that “Based on a RMB 120 billion valuation, Tencent may hold as much as 4.47 percent of Beike after the latest investment.”

The company was spun out from Lanjia in May 2018.

No prior funding information for Ke.com is present in Crunchbase at this time. Lianjia, the corporate parent of Ke.com, has raised over CN¥ 12.6 billion (almost $1.9 billion USD) in known venture funding, according to Crunchbase data. The Wall Street Journal reported back in September 2018 that Tencent and Warburg Pincus were planning to invest $1.5 billion in Lianjia, but it seems as though that deal is yet to be finalized at time of writing.

Delhivery

Delhivery is a supply chain services and logistics provider, connecting ecommerce and brick-and-mortar retail to customers. The company is based in Gurgaon, India.

Delhivery raised $413 million in a Series F round announced on March 4, 2019. SoftBank led the deal, which valued the company at roughly $1.6 billion, post-money. Fosun Group and Carlyle Group were participating investors in the transaction.

The company was founded in 2011

Prior to the hypergiant round mentioned above, the company had raised roughly $251 million in prior venture funding.

Opendoor

Opendoor is based in San Francisco. Opendoor acquires residential real estate and sells them directly to home-buyers, aiming to streamline the purchase process to just a few days.

In February, 2019, when reports of this deal first surfaced in regulatory filings by Opendoor, Mary Ann Azevedo covered the story for Crunchbase News.

Offerpad

Offerpad is a Phoenix, AZ-based residential real estate company in the business of acquiring houses and selling them directly to consumers, rather than simply brokering a transaction between buyers and sellers.

WM Motor

WM Motor (also known as 威马汽车技术有限公司) is an electric vehicle company based in Shanghai, China.

Delhivery

Delhivery is a supply chain services company based in Gurgaon, India.

Grab

Grab is a Singapore-based ride-hailing platform offering booking services for taxis, private cars, and motorbikes through a mobile application.

Natasha Mascarenhas covered SoftBank’s investment in Grab for Crunchbase News as the story surfaced. Back in December 2018, Savannah Dowling documented Grab’s never-ending Series H round.

February

Chehaoduo

Chehaoduo (also known as Guazi.com and 瓜子二手车直卖网) is a consumer-to-consumer used car marketplace company based in Beijing, China.

Danke Apartment

Danke Apartment is a technology-enabled apartment management company based in Beijing, China.

Horizon Robotics

Horizon Robotics (also known as 地平线 and Dipingxian) is an AI semiconductor manufacturer operating in the robotics industry. The company is headquartered in Beijing, China.

DoorDash

Based in San Francisco, DoorDash is an on-demand restaurant delivery service.

Flexport

Flexport is a San Francisco-based, full-service, software-driven global freight forwarder and logistics platform company.

Lalamove

Lalamove (货拉拉) is a Hong Kong-based delivery and logistics service marketplace company

The company raised $300 million in a Series D round co-led by Sequoia Capital China and Hillhouse Capital Group. Shunwei Capital, PV Seed Fund, MindWorks Ventures, and Eastern Bell Venture Capital participated in the deal, which was announced on February 21.

The company was founded in 2013 by Chow “Shing”-Yuk, Gary Hui, and Santit Jirawongkraisorn. It was originally called EasyVan.

Before the hypergiant round mentioned above, the company had raised $161.5 million in prior venture funding.

Shiheng

Shiheng is an online catering management service provider based in Beijing, China.

The company raised $300 million in a Series B round announced on February 18. SoftBank (not the Vision Fund) and TPG co-led the deal. CEO Fang ShiHun told DealStreetAsia that “ShiHeng is now valued at more than 1 billion yuan ($150 million), and is the leader of the takeaway/catering industry,” adding that “Our current GMV (gross merchandise value) is over 400 million yuan ($59 million).”

The company was founded in 2017.

DealStreetAsia reports that Shiheng has “raised three funding rounds in the last 12 months.” The report says that over the course of 2018, Shiheng raised over ¥200 million (approximately $30 million USD) between its Series A and “Series B-1” round. (The round above is being reported as a “Series B-2” deal.) Sequoia Capital China, Gaorong Capital, and Vision Plus Capital invested in those prior rounds.

Nuro

Nuro is a Mountain View, CA-based designer and manufacturer of autonomous delivery robotics.

Reddit

Reddit is a social media and community platform company headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

OakNorth

Based in Manchester, U.K., OakNorth is a commercial bank focused on serving the capital needs of small and medium-sized businesses.

Aurora

Aurora is a Palo Alto-based self-driving vehicle company.

Lime

Lime is an on-demand point-to-point transportation company that offers electric scooters and bicycles for metered rental enabled through its mobile application. The Silicon Valley company is situated in San Mateo, California.

Databricks

Databricks offers big data and analytics software as a service, built on top of Apache Spark. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

January

Clover Health

Clover Health is a Medicare benefits company based in San Francisco, California.

Jusda

Based in Shenzhen, China, Jusda (准时达) is a B2B supply chain management (SCM) company.

BridgeBio

BridgeBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on treating genetic diseases. It is based in Palo Alto, California.

Zhangmen

Zhangmen is a K-12 personalized online tutoring company based in Shanghai, China.

DaDa

DaDa is a Shanghai-based online education service for English language learners.

Rubrik

Hailing from Palo Alto, Rubrik is a provider of enterprise-focused data backup, management, and recovery services.

Knock

Launched by the founding team members of real estate listing site Trulia, Knock is a “home trade-in” platform for existing homeowners. The company is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Yimidida

Shanghai-based Yimidada develops logistics management systems.

N26

German fintech company N26 is a provider of mobile banking and international money transfer infrastructure and services.

The We Company

Née “WeWork,” the recently re-christened The We Company is a New York City-based commercial real estate company that offers temporary, shared, and private workspace options to clientele ranging from individuals to corporations.

Grab

Grab, a ride-hailing platform offering transportation in shared and private car rides, as well as motorbikes, is based in Singapore.

The company raised $350 million in the latest tranche of an extended Series H round, formally announced on January 7th. Tokyo Century led the deal.

Grab was founded in June of 2012. Prior to the company’s multi-part Series H round (the first part of which closed in June 2018) Grab had raised at least $4.135 billion in VC, PE, and debt financing.

Crunchbase News covered Grab’s never-ending Series H round back in December 2018. Between the first tranche from June 2018 and the last (for now?) $350 million raised in January, Grab has raised at least $3 billion in its Series H round.

Illustration: Li-Anne Dias