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Tiger Global

Tiger Global Management is a New York-based investment firm that makes venture and growth-equity investments in technology companies worldwide.

Known aliases

  • Tiger
  • Tiger Global Management

Current stories

investConfirmed2 publishers

Tiger Global's $5 billion OpenAI gain rests on a $500 billion mark, a third of the price in talks

Tiger Global's early OpenAI stake carries about $5 billion in paper gains, two outlets reported. Crypto Briefing values the stake with OpenAI at $500 billion, about a third of the $1.4 trillion now in talks, and at that price the gain offsets about 28% of Tiger's $18 billion loss in 2022.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence50
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
investOne report1 publisher

An existing Zipline backer is negotiating to lead the round that reprices it at $20bn

Bloomberg reports Zipline is in early talks for about $1bn at roughly $20bn, with Paradigm, a shareholder since March, in line to lead. That is 2.6 times the $7.6bn its Series H set in January.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption52
Hype gap+30
Incentives72
Confidence45
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

SoftBank's reported $6B for 1X prices a home robot at 44 times the money it has raised

The Information puts SoftBank in talks for a majority stake in 1X. The shipment boom cited as context belongs mostly to two Chinese firms, and 1X is not one of them.

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption31
Hype gap+44
Incentives63
Confidence48
investOne report1 publisher

Flock's $8.3B rests on data rights its biggest customers are now redlining

The company says it is past $500 million in recurring revenue at roughly 16.6 times that figure. What the multiple buys is written into contracts cities have started reopening.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption79
Hype gap+22
Incentives74
Confidence56
investOne report1 publisher

Flock's $8.3B asset is a searchable national archive. Its liability is the same archive

One officer logged more than 700 unauthorized searches on his estranged wife's car. The feature that made that possible is the one a16z and Tiger paid about 16 times revenue for.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption86
Hype gap+12
Incentives68
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

Temporal talks $12B six months after $5B: durable execution is now agent infrastructure

A reported $500 million round at a pre-money floor of at least $12 billion reprices a two-decade systems bet. Teams already running workflows on it should treat this as a procurement event.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption66
Hype gap+27
Incentives70
Confidence54