Salesforce and Slack were among a consortium of new and existing backers for Hopin’s series D round, which comes only five months after a $400m series C.

Hopin, the US-based developer of a virtual events platform, secured $450m in a series D round yesterday backed by Slack Fund and Salesforce Ventures, respective vehicles for messaging platform Slack and cloud computing firm Salesforce.

Arena Holdings and Altimeter Capital co-led the round, which also featured Adams Street Partners, Untitled Investments, XN, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), DFJ Growth, General Catalyst, GIC, IVP, Northzone, Temasek and Tiger Global.

Founded in 2019, Hopin operates a platform that can power in-person, virtual and hybrid…

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Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
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