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Whatnot Secures $545 M Series G, Valued at $20 B

8/8/2026

Summary

Story summary

Whatnot raised $545 million in a Series G round, valuing the live-shopping platform at $20 billion.
ICONIQ, Lightspeed and Avra led the round with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Wellington Management, Andreessen Horowitz and CapitalG.
The funding will finance expansion into new categories and markets, buyer-acquisition marketing, trust-and-safety upgrades and AI-assisted seller tools.
Whatnot reports addition of 650,000 users, a doubling of buyers, GMV above $8 billion and a 25 percent rise in full-time sellers.

History

Historical Context

In September 2014 Alibaba Group completed a $25 billion New York IPO, the world’s largest at the time, overseen by JPMorgan’s James Lee. The offering built on Alibaba’s 2004 creation of Alipay, which later became Ant Group and sparked a wave of fintech financing rounds, such as Ant’s $4.5 billion 2015 raise, shaping global e-commerce capital flows.

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Story summary

Whatnot raised $545 million in a Series G round, valuing the live-shopping platform at $20 billion.
ICONIQ, Lightspeed and Avra led the round with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Wellington Management, Andreessen Horowitz and CapitalG.
The funding will finance expansion into new categories and markets, buyer-acquisition marketing, trust-and-safety upgrades and AI-assisted seller tools.
Whatnot reports addition of 650,000 users, a doubling of buyers, GMV above $8 billion and a 25 percent rise in full-time sellers.

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