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Bond's first investment (2019): a $70M round at a $2.5B valuation.
Source: Fortune, 2019 ↗The celebrity money desk
Who's really writing the cheques
Co-founded growth-stage VC firm Bond (2018, spun out of Kleiner Perkins) after a career as Morgan Stanley's star internet analyst (the annual Internet Trends report). Bond invests at late/growth stage; raised a $1.25B debut fund and a $2B second fund.
Bond Capital founderBond's first investment (2019): a $70M round at a $2.5B valuation.
Source: Fortune, 2019 ↗Closed a $2B growth fund in 2021, up from its $1.25B debut fund.
Source: TechCrunch, 2021 ↗Photo: James Duncan Davidson / O'Reilly Media — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report · via TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Bond keeps a low profile and doesn't publish a full portfolio or fund returns; the 2019 Canva valuation has since risen sharply.