Watching this graph fly around twitter was driving me nuts, so I fixed it. Anyway. Happy Sunday.
Christina Cacioppo
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Christina Cacioppo
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looking forward to the back half of the chessboard. Vanta.
- I wouldn’t have guessed, but the jokes just get better as a startup grows.
- Today, we’re announcing @TrustVanta's Series D and new valuation – $4.15 billion – led by @Wellington_Mgmt alongside @sequoia, @ycombinator, @CrowdStrike, @GoldmanSachs, @jpmorgan, @craft_ventures, and @Atlassian. Vanta’s mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust.
00:00 - 1/ Thrilled to announce we’ve raised $150mm Series C at a $2.45bn post valuation led by @sequoia alongside our existing investors @ycombinator, @CrowdStrike, @craft_ventures, @Atlassian, @Workday, and @HubSpot and new friends @GoldmanSachs and @jpmorgan. The terms on this round
- I’m incredibly proud that @TrustVanta raised $110mm from @craft_ventures and existing investors Sequoia and YC. vanta.com/blog/vanta-ann… (Nothing like raising money in April 2022 to really make a growth-stage founder feel alive.)
- Vanta (@TrustVanta) just raised a Series A from @Sequoia and, for the first time, shared some details on our progress over the past two years: 👫1000+ customers 🎶Three products: SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA 💜70 Vanta’ns 💵$10mm ARR
- Google Trends "learn to code" vs "learn to program" vs "make apps"
- Today, we’re thrilled to announce several important milestones at Vanta, including serving over 7,000 customers and earning $100mm ARR in <5 years. Vanta’s ability to help our customers streamline security programs and automate compliance has never been stronger. 🧵
00:00- We're hiring a founder-in-residence at Vanta to build AI-first GTM! You'll transform how we support and attract customers while learning what works in AI-first enterprise GTM. This is a nine-month program for future founders, a combo of the @usv analyst program and @ycombinator
- Bret Taylor (@btaylor) talked about why AI is still in its Yahoo! directory phase, how to go enterprise-first as a startup if your name isn't "Bret Taylor," and what agentic *actually* means (it's not a bag of floating-point numbers) in the latest Frameworks for Growth.
00:00 - I first (cold!) emailed @amasad in March 2014. Gmail tells me we've swapped 291 messages since then, so it was especially fun to talk to him in @TrustVanta's Frameworks for Growth series.
00:00 - Aaaaaalllll the things I wish I had known about learning to code and building products before I did both: christinacacioppo.com/blog/build-pro…
- One of the best things about startups is how emails like this one can just work out.
01:13:07I first (cold!) emailed @amasad in March 2014. Gmail tells me we've swapped 291 messages since then, so it was especially fun to talk to him in @TrustVanta's Frameworks for Growth series.
