Roblox Archives - Crunchbase News /tag/roblox/ Data-driven reporting on private markets, startups, founders, and investors Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:27:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/cb_news_favicon-150x150.png Roblox Archives - Crunchbase News /tag/roblox/ 32 32 Roblox Building A Busier Platform With $150M Series G Andreessen Horowitz-Led Round /venture/roblox-building-a-busier-platform-with-150m-series-g-andreessen-horowitz-led-round/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:06:11 +0000 http://news.crunchbase.com/?p=25918 Gaming platform raised $150 million in a Series G round led by ’s (a16z) Late-Stage Venture Fund.

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The new round, which included participation from new investors and , brings Roblox’s total funding to more than $335 million, according to CrunchBase data.

Roblox recently reached 115 million monthly active users and more than 1.5 billion hours of monthly engagement.

“If early-stage venture is about asking ‘What if it works?’, later-stage venture is about asking and assessing, ‘Is it working?’,” a16z general partners and wrote in a on the firm’s website. “With largely organic user sign-ups, highly recurring purchase behavior, a high margin structure for the platform, and a super strong value proposition for users (who derive hours of entertainment at a lower cost than they can find elsewhere), Roblox is cash flow positive. Roblox is working.”

Along with the new funding, Roblox has a secondary offering of up to $350 million to provide liquidity for early employees and stakeholders, according to a statement from the company. The company is now valued at $4 billion, according to .

Roblox last raised money in July 2018, when it pulled $150 million for its Series F, according to Crunchbase. Its other investors include , and .

 

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