On Tuesday, Ramp answered any lingering questions as to why investors recently valued the expense management startup at $22.5 billion, just 45 days after a previous funding round valued it at $16 billion: the company says[1] it has achieved $1 billion in annualized revenue.
Annualized revenue refers to a company’s current revenue rate projected over a full year. In March, co-founder and CEO Eric Glyman told TechCrunch that Ramp had hit annualized revenue of $700 million[2]. That’s $300 million of revenue growth in about six months.
Ramp, which provides corporate expense management and financial software tools, raised $500 million in the $22.5 billion-valuation round in July, led by[3] Iconiq Growth with participation from Founders Fund and D1 Capital Partners. Ramp has now raised $1.9 billion in total funding. When Glyman talked with TC earlier this year, he said the company was cash-flow positive, too.
Next up, Ramp is working on AI agent-led “autonomous finance” — automated financial management systems — that Glyman predicts will be the norm by 2028. The company recently launched its first AI agent[4] and has plans to launch more.
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- ^ company says (www.prnewswire.com)
- ^ of $700 million (techcrunch.com)
- ^ led by (www.wsj.com)
- ^ its first AI agent (ramp.com)