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AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation

116 points| kapilkale | 4 years ago |angellist.com

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mxstbr|4 years ago

I'm confused by AngelList's corporate structure. Venture is a separate company that raises money on its own, ProductHunt belongs to a separate holding company[0] — what even is "AngelList" now?

[0]: https://writings.prologue.xyz/introducing-prologue/

verdverm|4 years ago

The company split in two about a year and a half ago (maybe more?) into hiring and venture.

guessmyname|4 years ago

I am still salty about a ban AngelList applied on my profile after I reported a (supposedly) CEO of a Los Angeles startup for insulting me when I rejected an invitation to join them. Instead of banning this person’s account, they banned mine. Interestingly, AngelList still sends me emails saying “[User] is interested in your profile”, even though I can’t log into the platform anymore. The unsubscribe button doesn’t even work.

amitm|4 years ago

hi - CEO of AngelList Talent here. Sorry about that. Could you email me at amit@angel.co and I can get it sorted

convolvatron|4 years ago

there is a little miscommunication. I got an automated message saying 'lots of people are intersted in your profile, we'd love to promote it', but the person in charge of that really thought my profile was garbage and didn't want to. ok, your choice...1 week later the same message

pluc|4 years ago

Same kind of feedback here though I wasn't banned, my complaint was just ignored.

radihuq|4 years ago

40x valuation seems crazy, even in 2022. Is this the new norm, or is AngelList Venture an exception?

manquer|4 years ago

40x of ? they don't have any disclosed revenue numbers .

$100m/ $4B is not 40x valuation it is just that they are diluting only 2.5% for that $100m . It just means they need only relatively small amount money and are in good spot financially and can afford to dilute very less.

Had they raised $500m on $4B post or $1B on $4B post the valuation is not changing to 8x or 4x.

Why should they raise more than they need because their valuation is high? Should they raise $200m if the valuation is $8B ? If they need only $100m in capital , they only need to only dilute that much.

tehlike|4 years ago

angellist is a money printer and solves a great problem...