Workplace Tool Notion Reaches $10B Valuation

Coverage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-10-08/workplace-tool-notion-reaches-10b-valuation

Status

In progress

Interview date

April 4, 2022

Reporter

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Who

Sohrab Amin

Type

Media

Background

Today Notion is announcing $275M in new funding led by Coatue & Sequoia, with participation from Base10. At heart, Notion has always been a tool company. We like to describe our mission as two-fold — software toolmaking AND ubiquity. As a company we need to work on both, missing half is missing the whole.

Ideal headlines

Notion Reaches $10 Billion Valuation, Boosted By Remote Work

Workplace Tool Notion Reaches $10B Valuation

Big 3 points

• Our story
• Upcoming goals
• Valuation

Top talking points

• Software toolmaking
• Ubiquity
• Careers

Stories/Examples

A VC firm's plan to enrich Black colleges has become its secret weapon for winning stakes in multibillion-dollar startups like Notion

The VC Base10 Partners has a fund in which historically Black colleges and universities are investors. Base10's mission to support HBCUs has helped the VC firm win hotly contested deals in startups. For example, an HBCU alum who works at Notion encouraged his company to connect with Base10.

www.businessinsider.com

Notion Reaches $10 Billion Valuation, Boosted By Remote Work - And TikTok

Early this year, Notion experienced a problem unusual to enterprise software startups: it went viral on TikTok. On January 4, millions of users logged on to Notion to check their note-taking, to-dos and calendars to start the new year, only to find the service was down. A month later, it happened again.

www.forbes.com

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