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Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives

Growth equity investment arm of Goldman Sachs Alternatives, backing late-stage private companies across technology and other sectors.

Known aliases

  • Goldman Sachs Alternatives
  • Goldman Sachs Growth Equity

Current stories

investConfirmed4 publishers

Socure adds agentic fraud investigation at a valuation 16% above its 2021 round

Socure's round prices a 63% grower at roughly 14 times ARR, and the agentic investigation platform it bought sells an 80% cut in cost per case, which is a promise to deflate the budget it is sold into.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 21%
Operator
Operator 36%
Investor
Investor 43%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption62
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence60
investConfirmed4 publishers

Lightspeed prices Temporal at 50 times revenue in a $550 million Series E

Temporal says its annualised revenue has passed $250 million and that its cloud processed more than 1.9 trillion actions in August. At the growth floors the company disclosed, volume is outrunning the revenue it produces.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 26%
Operator
Operator 23%
Investor
Investor 51%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption70
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Goldman Sachs Alternatives puts $400m into Cyera at the $12bn price set in June

Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives has put $400m into Cyera at the valuation the company set in June, its third large round of 2026. What that cheque funds and what a security team can switch on next month are separate questions.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption25
Hype gap+30
Incentives80
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Temporal's $550M round values durable execution at 2.5x its February price

Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption62
Hype gap+22
Incentives78
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

Harvey raises $550m to post-train its own legal models on a Beijing lab's open weights

The $15.5 billion price works out near 39 times annual recurring revenue above $400 million, and it rests on a margin claim Harvey has not quantified: that tuning Kimi K3 beats paying OpenAI per call.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption61
Hype gap+30
Incentives74
Confidence42
productOne report1 publisher

Socure buys the agents that build the fraud case file before the analyst opens it

The $156 million round set a $5.2 billion valuation, and the part that reaches a working analyst is RiskOS_Agents, which gathers the documents, runs the screening and drafts the summary a human used to write.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence33
Adoption44
Hype gap+36
Incentives78
Confidence52
productConfirmed3 publishers

Higgsfield's $400M round prices generative video at $5.4B, and buyer shortlists get shorter

A DST Global-led Series B quadruples the company's valuation since January. The interesting part is what the money is for: compute contracts that decide who is still shipping at renewal.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 23%
Investor
Investor 47%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption66
Hype gap+22
Incentives78
Confidence64