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Ramp Raises $1.85 Billion at a $60 Billion Valuation

Investors pointed to the company's rapid revenue growth, positive cash flow, new AI tools for tracking and cutting model costs as the reason for the investment.

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Overview

  • Ramp completed a $1.85 billion primary financing led by Dragoneer with co-leads including Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital and Avenir Growth and participation from institutional investors such as Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, GIC and Coatue.
  • The round lifts Ramp's valuation to $60 billion, up from a reported $44 billion in June, and brings the company's total equity raised to about $5 billion.
  • Ramp says it now generates more than $2 billion in annualized revenue, is cash-flow positive, serves over 85,000 companies and facilitates roughly $275 billion in annualized purchase volume.
  • The company is expanding its product suite into AI-driven finance tools that monitor token and model spending, optimize inference costs, route models and store reusable AI automations for teams.
  • Investors view the funding as a bet on financial automation for corporate finance teams, a move that could intensify competition with legacy expense and payroll vendors and change how companies track and control AI spending.