Mural tripled its ARR in the previous year and raised $50M in Series C. Mural, a business that creates software for digital collaboration with a focus on visual presentation, said this morning that it has received a $50 million Series C round of funding.
The firm is valued at more than $2 billion, thanks to the fresh funding, which is being co-led by prior investors Insight Partners and Tiger Global. When Mural concluded a $118 million round in August of last year, the company had a prior valuation of about $500 million. At the beginning of 2020, Mural also raised $23 million in Series A. Mural’s merchandise is primarily visual.
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Why did Mural raise less money in Series C than in Series B before it? According to Sachdev, Mural still had the bulk of its prior round on its books. We infer from this fact that Mural didn’t actually require another sizable amount of funding.
Thus, it didn’t however, Mural—known as Mural.ly till 2019—was expanding before the epidemic, and it doesn’t seem to believe that the eventual outcome of the pandemic will have a significant negative impact on its growth rates. Suarez-Battan mentioned in a conversation about the company’s future after COVID-19.
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Sachdev emphasized the idea by telling TechCrunch that COVID was a “major pull ahead” in the long-standing trend of remote work. According to him, COVID did not invent organizations that carried out remote collaboration or creative work; rather, it only accelerated this reality. Not all of Tiger and Insight’s reasons for wanting to purchase more Mural were related to its rapid expansion.
The firm had maintained high levels of efficiency as it scaled, which is venture capitalist jargon meaning the capacity to rapidly increase sales without also increasing the rate at which cash is used. In essence, it is the venture version of bragging about operating leverage. Once more, efficient growth is the central theme that the statistic highlights.
Increase In Annual Recurring Revenue
Suarez-Battan claims that Mural has kept up the rapid rate of growth that made it a standout business in 2020. According to him, the company’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) has tripled in the last year. The company declared that rate of growth when it raised its Series B in Q3 2020.
We can assume that the company has reached a meaningful top-line scale because the company has now revealed that it has tripled in each of the last two years.
However, Mural—known as Mural.ly till 2019—was expanding before the epidemic, and it doesn’t seem to believe that the eventual outcome of the pandemic will have a significant negative impact on its growth rates.
Suarez-Battan brought up the fact that many of his company’s customers have multiple offices in various places while talking about the company’s future following COVID-19. The reasoning makes the point that those worries would still require Mural and its software even if they eventually switched to an all-in-office structure.
