Series D
topic on 9 shows · 14 statements across 13 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
In Depth 
Innovators & Investors 
Lenny's Podcast 
the Neon Show 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
A Product Market Fit Show 
Capital Allocators 
Top Founders
14 statements about Series D, every show
Alarie: Blue J raised a $122M Series D in July 2025
“We raised a Series D round, and that closed in July of 2025. And it was a hundred and twenty two million USD.”
Trulioo Raised a Record Series D at a $2B+ CAD Valuation
“And we were very fortunate and excited that in 21 we were raised what, for the very short period of time, was Canada's largest Series D round valuing Trulieu just over two billion. Canadian.”
Magnuson: Braze never received multiple term sheets until its Series D
“It wasn't until our series D six years into the business that we ever had a fundraising round where we got more than one term sheet.”
Zaparde: Zip reaches 350 employees and $2.2B valuation after Series D
“Yeah, so the company is about 300 fifty-ish people we've raised about three hundred seventy million dollars now, and the most recent round was our Series D at 2.2 billion post last month.”
Series D companies fundamentally resemble multi-billion-dollar publicly traded stocks
“So if you're looking at a private company, that's a growth company raising a series D round. Is that dissimilar from a publicly traded company with a couple billion dollar market cap that your public PMs are investing in? Most of the time, it's not that differ…”
Whatfix raised its Series C and Series D rounds without pitch decks
“Series C, Series D, I didn't have a deck.”
Yandell: DoorDash almost went out of business before Series D
“When we raised our series D funding, which was a really tough fundraise for us. We had very little runway left. We almost went out of business and it was a huge relief when we had finally gotten the funding secured.”
Owens: Paddle might have raised at a $3.5B valuation two months earlier
“Two months earlier and we might have raised it like a three and a half billion dollar valuation.”
Munford: Trulioo Raised $394M Series D With $150M Primary, Rest Secondary
“It was US dollars, three hundred and ninety four million 150 primary and the rest was secondary.”
Mode bought mode.com before announcing Series D to avoid price gouging
“Well, we did it after the round before announcing the round. Which is the right time because like, you don't want someone to be able to go look up the financing amount and be like, these people can pay more.”
Tejada: PagerDuty raised an unneeded Series D to test investor narrative
“And so we did not need the cash, but we raised a Series D about, you know, six, eight months before we went public in order to test our story and our narrative and our performance out in front of a number of what we now call crossover investors.”
Ben-Shushan: Bizzabo Closed $27 Million Series D in April
“We just closed our Series D round earlier in April, a month ago twenty-seven million dollar round, yeah.”
MapMyFitness planned a $50M to $100M Series D before exiting
“We were kind of in the process of looking at raising 50 to a hundred million and kind of rolling up some of the market and going after it in a bigger way. We had a number of VC firms that had basically come to us looking to do that series D.”