Operators said

Fundraising & investors

Listen Labs' $2B sale to Salesforce returned about $850M on $96M invested, with Sequoia making about 25x within roughly three years. Listen

Harry Stebbings said Listen Labs reportedly had earlier offers at $1.5B before accepting $2B. Sequoia led the seed and Series A and made about 25x, while Ribbit led the B and made about 4x in eight months. The company was described as about three years old.

“about eight hundred and fifty million dollars back to investors on ninety six invested.”

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