
费用管理公司 Ramp 周四宣布,它通过新一轮融资筹集了 18.5 亿美元,公司估值达到了 600 亿美元。这距离该公司上次融资(筹集 7.5 亿美元、估值为 440 亿美元)仅过去了四个月。
Expense management company Ramp said on Thursday that it had raised $1.85 billion in a new funding round that values it at $60 billion, just four months after raising $750 million at a $44 billion valuation. The financing was co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital, and Avenir Growth.
此次融资由 Dragoneer Investment Group、Thrive Capital、Founders Fund、Sands Capital 和 Avenir Growth 共同领投。
Ramp said its annualized revenue has crossed $2 billion, up from a reported $1.5 billion in June, and that its revenue growth is 25% faster than it was around this time last year.
Ramp 表示,其年化收入已突破 20 亿美元(6 月份时为 15 亿美元),收入增长速度比去年同期快了 25%。该公司称,其每年的交易额已超过 2750 亿美元(同比增长 175%),客户数量也从 7 月份的 7 万户增加到了 8.5 万户,其中包括 Visa、Uber、Shopify、Robinhood、Anduril、Notion、Cursor 和 Figma 等企业。
The company claims it now facilitates annualized purchase volume of over $275 billion, up 175% from a year earlier. It also says it has 85,000 customers, up from 70,000 in June, including Visa, Uber, Shopify, Robinhood, Anduril, Notion, Cursor, and Figma. The funding comes as Ramp has been expanding beyond expense management into include payments, fraud detection, procurement, vendor management, and, of late, even accounting.
随着业务的扩展,Ramp 的服务范围已从费用管理扩展到支付、欺诈检测、采购、供应商管理,甚至会计领域。该公司还将其产品中嵌入了人工智能(AI)技术,例如在采购、费用管理、预算编制等方面运用 AI 功能。此外,Ramp 还推出了一种专为 AI 系统设计的企业信用卡,并于 8 月进入了模型路由(model routing)业务领域,以利用蓬勃发展的 AI 技术市场,为现有客户提供与现有产品相配套的模型路由服务(包括 AI 代币的使用监控和代币支出管理功能)。
The startup has also built an AI story around itself, embedding AI agents into its procurement, expense management, accounting, budgeting, and other products. It also launched a corporate credit card specifically designed for AI agents to use, and in August entered the model routing business to tap the booming AI inference market and give existing clients a model routing service that fits neatly with its current products, including AI token usage monitoring and token spend management. Earlier this month, Ramp launched Glass, a workspace that collects and remembers the AI automations, prompts and skills that an organization’s employees build so others can take advantage of the company’s collective knowledge and skills.
Dragoneer 的合伙人 Christian Jensen 在一份声明中表示:“短短几年内,Ramp 已发展成为一个功能更为全面的财务运营平台,AI 技术已深入融入公司的各项业务中。我们相信,Ramp 有望成为这个时代最具影响力的公司之一。”
“In just a few years, Ramp has become a much broader financial operations platform, with AI deeply embedded in how the company builds and operates. We believe Ramp is well on its way to becoming one of the defining companies of this era,” Christian Jensen, partner at Dragoneer, said in a statement.
本轮其他投资者包括资本国际、富达管理与研究公司、T. Rowe Price、D1 Capital Partners、Greenoaks、ICONIQ、GIC、8VC、1789 Capital、Alpha Wave Global、安大略省教师养老金计划、Coatue、D.E. Shaw、Definition Capital、FirstMark、General Catalyst、Generation Investment Management、Glade Brook Capital Partners、Khosla Ventures、Lightspeed Venture Partners、Pinegrove Opportunity Partners、Soma Capital 和 Stripes。该公司目前已筹集约50亿美元融资。
Other investors in the round include Capital International, Fidelity Management & Research Company, T. Rowe Price, D1 Capital Partners, Greenoaks, ICONIQ, GIC, 8VC, 1789 Capital, Alpha Wave Global, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Coatue, D.E. Shaw, Definition Capital, FirstMark, General Catalyst, Generation Investment Management, Glade Brook Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pinegrove Opportunity Partners, Soma Capital, and Stripes. The company has now raised about $5 billion in funding.
随着Ramp扩大其产品线,它与HR和薪资软件公司Rippling的竞争日益加剧,后者已进军企业卡、费用管理和账单支付领域。这种重叠使两家公司在同一财务团队预算上展开直接竞争。
As Ramp has widened its product lineup, it has increasingly run into Rippling, the HR and payroll software company that has pushed into corporate cards, expense management, and bill payments. The overlap puts the two companies in direct competition for the same finance-team budgets.
早期投资者Keith Rabois曾通过Founders Fund和Khosla Ventures两家公司支持Ramp,而这两家公司均参与了本轮融资。他上个月接受TechCrunch采访,谈及Ramp的战略及他对公司的雄心。
Early investor Keith Rabois, who has backed Ramp through two firms, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, both of which participated in this round, spoke to TechCrunch last month about Ramp’s strategy and his own ambitions for the company.
“Ramp并不担心Rippling,”Rabois表示。“我们担心的是我们将与Anthropic展开竞争,”他继续说道。“这就是目标。我想要比Anthropic更大、更成功、更重要。而且你已经看到我们最近采取的一些步骤。世界的未来将通过代币及其等价物来驱动,而Ramp将成为人们管理代币支出的主要方式,他们将如何优化它、如何衡量投资回报率,这可能会导致我们在许多方面与Anthropic正面碰撞。”
“Ramp is not worried about Rippling,” Rabois said. “We’re worried about we’re going to compete with Anthropic,” he continued. “That’s the goal. I want to be larger and more successful and more important than Anthropic. And you’ve seen some of the steps that we’ve taken recently. The future of the world is driven through tokens and equivalent, and Ramp is going to be the primary way people manage their token spend, how they optimize it, how they measure ROI, and that will lead us to collide probably with Anthropic in many ways.”