Funding Rounds in October 2018

All 3,962 funding rounds announced during October 2018, sorted by deal size. Includes lead investors, stage, and total raised.

3,962
Rounds announced
$52.7B
Total raised
$18.9M
Avg round
$3.0B
Largest
Round-type breakdown
Investment types in October 2018
Seed
1,001
Series Unknown
601
Series A
408
Pre Seed
379
Grant
344
Series B
187
Angel
149
Private Equity
145
Debt Financing
123
Post Ipo Equity
104
# Company Round Raised Lead Investor Date
1
OYO LIFE
OYO LIFE is a real estate company that offers managed living, workspac…
Undisclosed $3.0B Z Holdings +1 2018-10-30 Round →
2
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platf…
Series E $3.0B General Atlantic +12 2018-10-25 Round →
3
Uber
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application…
Debt Financing $2.0B 2018-10-18 Round →
4
Epic Games
Epic Games is an interactive entertainment company that develops games…
Series Unknown $1.2B Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. +9 2018-10-26 Round →
5
Stoneco
Stone is a leading provider of financial technology solutions that emp…
Series Unknown $1.1B Tiger Global Management +9 2018-10-01 Round →
6
Airtel Africa
Airtel Africa is a telecommunications company that offers mobile voice…
Private Equity $1.1B Warburg Pincus +6 2018-10-24 Round →
7
Gojek
Gojek is a digital technology platform that offers a wide range of ser…
Series F $920.0M Google +2 2018-10-30 Round →
8
Starbucks
Starbucks is a restaurant chain that serves handcrafted ready-to-drink…
Post Ipo Equity $900.0M Pershing Square Capital Management 2018-10-10 Round →
9
Meicai
Meicai sells agricultural products online that aims to change agricult…
Series F $800.0M Tiger Global Management +2 2018-10-08 Round →
10
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise is a global aviation services company that …
Debt Financing $800.0M 2018-10-04 Round →
11
Cruise
Cruise is an autonomous vehicle company that develops electric cars fo…
Corporate Round $750.0M Honda Motor 2018-10-03 Round →
12
Gunvor Group
Gunvor Group is a Global energy trader company.
Debt Financing $745.0M ING Group 2018-10-15 Round →
13
CDB Aviation
CDB Aviation is a global platform which owns, leases, and manages comm…
Debt Financing $700.0M Crédit Agricole +7 2018-10-08 Round →
14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a research university that co…
Grant $650.0M Stephen Schwarzman 2018-10-15 Round →
15
Instacart
Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery …
Series F $600.0M D1 Capital Partners 2018-10-16 Round →
16
Tabreed
Tabreed is a cooling company providing sustainable, energy efficient a…
Post Ipo Debt $500.0M 2018-10-30 Round →
17
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a…
Series F $450.0M Sequoia Capital +8 2018-10-11 Round →
18
Tilray
Tilray is a cannabis-lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company tha…
Debt Financing $450.0M 2018-10-04 Round →
19
SmileDirectClub
SmileDirectClub offers home invisible aligners, a series of plastic al…
Private Equity $380.0M CD&R LLP +3 2018-10-10 Round →
20
Cerevel Therapeutics
Cerevel Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops drug…
Private Equity $350.0M Bain Capital Private Equity +1 2018-10-26 Round →
21
GW Pharmaceuticals
GW Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discoveri…
Post Ipo Equity $345.2M 2018-10-02 Round →
22
Panshi
Panshi is an online and mobile advertising firm that offers online adv…
Series D $324.8M Cybernaut Venture Capital +2 2018-10-17 Round →
23
Bilibili
Bilibili is an online entertainment platform featuring videos, live br…
Post Ipo Equity $317.6M Tencent 2018-10-05 Round →
24
Ryan
Ryan is a tax services, software, and technology firm that offers tax …
Private Equity $317.0M Onex 2018-10-17 Round →
25
Coinbase
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchant…
Series E $300.0M Tiger Global Management +16 2018-10-30 Round →
26
Africa Finance Corporation
Africa Finance Corporation is a multilateral development finance insti…
Debt Financing $300.0M The Export-Import Bank of China 2018-10-11 Round →
27
Devoted Health
Devoted Health is a healthcare company serving seniors and giving them…
Series B $300.0M Andreessen Horowitz +11 2018-10-11 Round →
28
Xiaozhu.com
Xiaozhu.com is a platform for online communication and transactions fo…
Series F $300.0M YF Capital +5 2018-10-10 Round →
29
1919 Wines & Spirits
Wines & Spirits is a Chinese e-commerce liquor retailer.
Post Ipo Equity $288.3M Alibaba Group 2018-10-18 Round →
30
Footprint
Footprint is a materials science technology company that designs, deve…
Series A $276.6M Olympus Partners +2 2018-10-31 Round →
31
Vistara
Vistara is a joint venture of Tata Sons Limited and Singapore Airlines…
Private Equity $273.1M Tata Sons 2018-10-24 Round →
32
Accurate Builders & Developers
Accurate Builders and Developers is a construction and development com…
Undisclosed $258.0M Meridian Capital 2018-10-08 Round →
33
Bianlifeng
Bianlifeng is a cashier-free convenience store and smart snack machine…
Series B $256.0M Hillhouse Investment +1 2018-10-25 Round →
34
Orion Health
Orion Health is an award winning, global healthcare software company t…
Post Ipo Equity $255.0M Hg 2018-10-30 Round →
35
Iovance Biotherapeutics
Iovance Biotherapeutics is developing and delivering tumor infiltratin…
Post Ipo Equity $252.2M 2018-10-11 Round →
36
LXi REIT
LXi REIT is a real estate investment trust.
Post Ipo Equity $230.2M 2018-10-12 Round →
37
Polaris
Polaris develops hardware and software for information processing syst…
Series Unknown $230.0M MISAWA HOMES +1 2018-10-31 Round →
38
Ribbon Home
Ribbon is an alternative home lender that enables you Buy Before You S…
Series A $225.0M Bain Capital Ventures +3 2018-10-25 Round →
39
Linklogis
Linklogis is a supply chain financing service provider.
Series C $220.0M GIC +9 2018-10-15 Round →
40
CapitaLand
CapitaLand is one of Asia’s largest real estate companies.
Post Ipo Debt $217.3M DBS Bank 2018-10-04 Round →
41
Dhani Stocks
Dhani Stocks is a capital market company providing securities and deri…
Post Ipo Debt $210.2M Steadview Capital +1 2018-10-24 Round →
42
Huasheng Haoche
Huasheng Haoche is a Beijing-based automotive trading and services pla…
Series B $210.0M Crescent Point +3 2018-10-25 Round →
43
Zomato
Zomato is a restaurant discovery platform that allows users to search …
Series I $210.0M Ant Group 2018-10-12 Round →
44
Grab
Grab is a mobile application that provides taxi, payment, lending, and…
Series H $200.0M Booking Holdings 2018-10-29 Round →
45
Hayat Holding
A leading Turkish enterprise with a highly successful track record.
Debt Financing $200.0M International Finance Corporation 2018-10-18 Round →
46
Careem
Careem is building the Everything App for the Middle East, making it e…
Series F $200.0M Kingdom Holding Company +3 2018-10-18 Round →
47
Trace Midstream
Trace Midstream focuses on the development of carbon capture and seque…
Private Equity $200.0M Quantum Capital Group 2018-10-03 Round →
48
Tanium
Tanium is an IT security firm that provides risk management, incident …
Series Unknown $200.0M Wellington Management +2 2018-10-02 Round →
49
Azure Power
Azure Power produces and distributes solar power to commercial, govern…
Post Ipo Equity $185.0M La Caisse 2018-10-22 Round →
50
Bright Machines
Bright Machines brings together flexible factory robots with intellige…
Series A $179.0M Eclipse +5 2018-10-23 Round →