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Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Harvey passed $50M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024, up 400% YoY, and is now in talks to raise $300M at a $3B valuation for a 60x forward revenue multiple.</li><li>Harvey stands out as one of the fastest growing vertical AI companies, with Sacra estimating that Harvey passed $50M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024 (up 400% YoY) backed by Sequoia from its $21M Series A through its $100M Series C in July, now in talks to raise $300M at a $3B valuation for a 60x forward revenue multiple.</li><li>While Harvey initially positioned itself as an AI copilot for biglaw firms with the highest paid lawyers that do the most sophisticated legal work, its logos have shifted towards corporate in-house counsel and legal services firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) (tax compliance) and Adecco Group (outsourced legal support).</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Harvey passed $50M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024, up 400% YoY, and is now in talks to raise $300M at a $3B valuation for a 60x forward revenue multiple.Harvey stands out as one of the fastest growing vertical AI companies, with Sacra estimating that Harvey passed $50M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024 (up 400% YoY) backed by Sequoia from its $21M Series A through its $100M Series C in July, now in talks to raise $300M at a $3B valuation for a 60x forward revenue multiple.While Harvey initially positioned itself as an AI copilot for biglaw firms with the highest paid lawyers that do the most sophisticated legal work, its logos have shifted towards corporate in-house counsel and legal services firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) (tax compliance) and Adecco Group (outsourced legal support).

<ul><li>The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 decimated Jasper and Copy.ai’s prosumer and SMB businesses, with revenue going flat/into decline as customers replaced their $50/month subscriptions to Jasper/Copy.ai with free and $20/mo premium subscriptions to ChatGPT.</li><li>With its 32K token context window and superiority on reasoning tasks, the launch of GPT-4 in March 2023 enabled AI writing tools to re-position as enterprise solutions that could orchestrate complex, multi-tool workflows.</li><li>For these companies where revenue might have been flat-to-down during 2023, the faster they can shift the underlying revenue towards low-churn enterprise revenue, the faster that growth will re-accelerate.</li></ul>

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 decimated Jasper and Copy.ai’s prosumer and SMB businesses, with revenue going flat/into decline as customers replaced their $50/month subscriptions to Jasper/Copy.ai with free and $20/mo premium subscriptions to ChatGPT.With its 32K token context window and superiority on reasoning tasks, the launch of GPT-4 in March 2023 enabled AI writing tools to re-position as enterprise solutions that could orchestrate complex, multi-tool workflows.For these companies where revenue might have been flat-to-down during 2023, the faster they can shift the underlying revenue towards low-churn enterprise revenue, the faster that growth will re-accelerate.

<ul><li>Mid 2022, Scale’s bread-and-butter of autonomous vehicle (AV) data labeling workloads went into a decline alongside falling R&amp;D investment and VC funding, with GM’s Cruise (2021 valuation: $30B) suspending operations and Argo AI (2021 valuation: $7.B), Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT), and Uber (NYSE: UBER) shutting down their AV programs.</li><li>In 2023, Scale’s revenue exploded to $760M ARR, up 162% YoY, with $18B in capital inflows to foundational model companies like OpenAI ($1.3B ARR in 2023), Anthropic ($200M ARR in 2023) and Cohere and generative AI apps like Runway ($237M raised) and Harvey ($106M raised) alongside the integration of gen AI-features into every app.</li><li>The very source of Scale’s near-term revenue re-acceleration poses the gravest long-term existential threat to its business, with LLMs getting closer to parity with humans on data-labeling tasks while being cheap and 20x as fast.</li></ul>

Mid 2022, Scale’s bread-and-butter of autonomous vehicle (AV) data labeling workloads went into a decline alongside falling R&amp;D investment and VC funding, with GM’s Cruise (2021 valuation: $30B) suspending operations and Argo AI (2021 valuation: $7.B), Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT), and Uber (NYSE: UBER) shutting down their AV programs.In 2023, Scale’s revenue exploded to $760M ARR, up 162% YoY, with $18B in capital inflows to foundational model companies like OpenAI ($1.3B ARR in 2023), Anthropic ($200M ARR in 2023) and Cohere and generative AI apps like Runway ($237M raised) and Harvey ($106M raised) alongside the integration of gen AI-features into every app.The very source of Scale’s near-term revenue re-acceleration poses the gravest long-term existential threat to its business, with LLMs getting closer to parity with humans on data-labeling tasks while being cheap and 20x as fast.

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AI assistant for legal research and document review used by law firms and in-house counsel

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Scale At $760M ARR

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