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nvestment: $20M Current Company Valuation: $1.7B Other Key Investors: IA Ventures, Andreessen-Horowitz, IVP VALAR I EFTA00810263 *breather Breather operates a network of private, professional meeting rooms designed for work, meetings and to focus. Headquarters: New York City & Montreal Vala

tners and available talent at all stages of the company's lifecycle. Valar believes that, in the Western World, these dynamics are most prevalent in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Berlin and Paris, and to a lesser extent, in the smaller cities that feed into the larger tech hubs (e.g., Provo, Boulder, Portl

nd to be high-margin businesses focused on massive markets, such as currency transfer (Transferwise), banking (N26, Qonto), commercial real estate (Breather), insurance (Jetty, Coya), investing/retirement savings (Stash), accounting software (Xero), and human resources/compliance software (Kato). Given t

orld. In 2014.TCV led a $30 million funding round for SiteMinder. a Sydney based hotel booking platform. Strong support The Indian arm of vaunted Silicon Valley fund Sequoia Capital has made a handful of investments on both sides of the Tasman over the past year. Other respected US VC hnp://www.afrromitechn

. An update on these major investments — and a few notes on some of the Fund's smaller investments - follows. In our last update, we announced that Breather had raised a Series C round led by Venky Ganesan of Menlo Ventures in November 2016. Google Ventures subsequently invested $5 million at the beginn