Equity Monday: Billion-dollar deals, JetBrain's epic profitability, and our favorite new VC rounds
The weekend was busy, as always, so there was a lot of chew over this morning. Here's a partial list: SoftBank is going to put together a number of SPACs. Indian fintech Pine Labs has raised $75 million to $100 million at a valuation of around $2 billion RealPage is selling to private equity for $9.6 billion Zoom is under fresh scrutiny here in the US Bolt has raised $75 million more in a Series C1. We talk about why that's fun, and its current competition. Group14 has raised a $17 million Series B that has us thinking about the future. And WorkWhile wants to help hourly workers and employers get along better. Closing, here's the Owen Thomas piece that I mentioned at the very end of the show.