{"id":174287,"date":"2021-02-09T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/reddit-doubles-valuation-to-6b-amid-wallstreetbets-frenzy\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:09:27","slug":"reddit-doubles-valuation-to-6b-amid-wallstreetbets-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/reddit-doubles-valuation-to-6b-amid-wallstreetbets-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Reddit doubles valuation to $6B amid WallStreetBets frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Reddit<\/a> doubles valuation to $6B amid WallStreetBets frenzy<\/strong>”
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Reddit has doubled its valuation to $6 billion as the social network\u2019s role in the recent stock market revolution thrust it into the spotlight.<\/p>\n

San Francisco-based Reddit said Monday that it raised more than $250 million in additional funding from a group of new and existing investors led by venture-capital firm Vy Capital.<\/p>\n

The financing increased Reddit\u2019s value <\/a>from the $3 billion price tag it received in its last funding round in February 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided that now was the right opportunity to make strategic investments in Reddit including video, advertising, consumer products, and expanding into international markets,\u201d Reddit said in a blog post<\/a> announcing the financing.<\/p>\n

Reddit had been growing even before its WallStreetBets message board upended Wall Street last month by driving up the stock prices of Game<\/a>Stop and other unloved companies. <\/p>\n

The firm \u2014 whose investors include Silicon Valley\u2019s Andreessen Horowitz and Chinese tech giant Tencent \u2014 said it now has more than 50 million daily users and its direct advertising revenue grew 90 percent in the last quarter compared to the prior year. Reddit also said it\u2019s getting ready to double the size of its employee workforce.<\/p>\n

CEO Steve Huffman told The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that Reddit was taking advantage of a hot market for startup funding. The company\u2019s financing round came after the audio-chat app<\/a> Clubhouse snagged a $1 billion valuation after raising money last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cValuations are very high right now,\u201d Huffman told the Journal. \u201cIt never hurts to raise money when there\u2019s an opportunity to do so and Reddit had a strong year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Huffman and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have expressed support for the retail investor uprising that unfolded on WallStreetBets, which had 8.8 million members as of Tuesday. Reddit also took out a five-second Super Bowl ad that paid tribute to the foul-mouthed forum.<\/p>\n

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