Denise Stephan published a piece on the crunchbase blog of the startups that raised the most money in 2019.
Number 1 was Flexport
Last Equity Funding: $1B Series D
Notable Investors: Softbank Vision Fund, DST Global, Founders Fund
Flexport is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its service includes a dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade.
WeWork was second and DoorDash was third.
I use DoorDash a lot, been some rocky times using them they seem to be improving lately.
8 of the 11 on the list do own their matching .com. Nuro which is 4th is actually listed over at Catchy.com. Nuro uses the .ai extension.
Aurora uses Aurora.tech as the .com is owned by Ariss and used as a redirect.
Knock uses Knockaway.com as Knock is a developed website.
Check out the whole list here
Sam says
WeWork is bankrupt arent they? out of business
Raymond Hackney says
No they had layoffs but not out of business currently.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-26/after-wework-softbank-s-startup-bookkeeping-draws-scrutiny
BullS says
It will be soon.
It is all HYPE!!