{"id":4167,"date":"2021-04-19T22:49:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2021-04-21T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:04:30","slug":"clubhouse-new-funding-would-value-app-at-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/clubhouse-new-funding-would-value-app-at-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Clubhouse New Funding Would Value App at $4 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The audio chat app Clubhouse ended a new round of Series C funding, but did not close the amount that had gathered at its weekly meeting last Sunday at City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A source familiar with the financing confirmed that the figure is $4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new round of funding was led by Andrew Chen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and major investors including DST Global, Tiger Global and Elad Gil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The San Francisco-based social media company allows people to discuss various topics in audio chat rooms. Performances by billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have helped make the app mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one-year-old platform now has 10 million weekly active users and has clearly demonstrated the potential of audio chat services in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in which people were largely indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the original story from Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The audio chat app Clubhouse ended a new round of Series C funding, but did not close the amount that had gathered at its weekly meeting last Sunday at City Hall. A source familiar with the financing confirmed that the figure is $4 billion. The new round of funding was led by Andrew Chen of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[39,133,134],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-clubhouse","tag-finance","tag-funding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}