Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing, Sacra

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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 Invisible hit $134M in annualized revenue at the end of 2024 revenue, up 123% YoY, off the back of major RLHF contracts Microsoft and Cohere.</li><li>Invisible Technologies (founded 2015) started as a virtual assistant service and has since grown into a platform that businesses use to outsource repetitive, high-volume tasks.</li><li>Finding product-market fit in foundation lab RLHF and AI model training after breakthrough contracts with Microsoft and Cohere, Sacra estimates Invisible Technologies hit $134M in annualized revenue in 2024, up 123% YoY from $60M in 2023.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates Invisible hit $134M in annualized revenue at the end of 2024 revenue, up 123% YoY, off the back of major RLHF contracts Microsoft and Cohere.Invisible Technologies (founded 2015) started as a virtual assistant service and has since grown into a platform that businesses use to outsource repetitive, high-volume tasks.Finding product-market fit in foundation lab RLHF and AI model training after breakthrough contracts with Microsoft and Cohere, Sacra estimates Invisible Technologies hit $134M in annualized revenue in 2024, up 123% YoY from $60M in 2023.

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<ul><li>Angi Inc. (“Angi”) is set to be spun off from IAC Inc. (IAC owns 85% of the company) on March 31, 2025 following a multi-year turnaround that restored profitability and improved cash flow.</li><li>The first day of regular way trading will be April 1, 2025.</li><li>Angi operates the largest digital marketplace for home services in the U.S., connecting homeowners with contractors across Angi’s Ads and Leads platform (formerly HomeAdvisor/Angie’s List) and Services (pre-priced jobs fulfilled via Angi’s network), with an international segment spanning Europe and Canada.</li></ul>

Angi Inc. (“Angi”) is set to be spun off from IAC Inc. (IAC owns 85% of the company) on March 31, 2025 following a multi-year turnaround that restored profitability and improved cash flow.The first day of regular way trading will be April 1, 2025.Angi operates the largest digital marketplace for home services in the U.S., connecting homeowners with contractors across Angi’s Ads and Leads platform (formerly HomeAdvisor/Angie’s List) and Services (pre-priced jobs fulfilled via Angi’s network), with an international segment spanning Europe and Canada.

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APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

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We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/timee-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43690:1" rel="noopener">Timee Inc (215A JP)</a> listed in Japan on 26th July 2024 after raising US$300m. Its six-month lockup will expire on 21st Jan 2025.</li>
<li>Timee operates an on-demand staffing platform that connects part-time jobseekers with businesses in Japan.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note.</li>
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Timee Inc (215A JP) listed in Japan on 26th July 2024 after raising US$300m. Its six-month lockup will expire on 21st Jan 2025.
Timee operates an on-demand staffing platform that connects part-time jobseekers with businesses in Japan.
In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note.


Timee US$280m Lockup Expiry - Scattered List of Financial Investors Coming Unlocked

<ul><li>Sacra estimates they hit $50M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024, up 50x, with growing demand for high-skill experts for reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).</li><li>As labs started building LLMs focused on complex math, science, and other reasoning tasks, frontier labs began doing RLHF with $50-100/hr medical doctors, lawyers and PhDs to improve their models’ capabilities.</li><li>On the back of growing demand from AI labs for human experts to train the next generation of models, Sacra estimates that Mercor hit $50M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024, growing 50x from $1M at the beginning of the year.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates they hit $50M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024, up 50x, with growing demand for high-skill experts for reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).As labs started building LLMs focused on complex math, science, and other reasoning tasks, frontier labs began doing RLHF with $50-100/hr medical doctors, lawyers and PhDs to improve their models’ capabilities.On the back of growing demand from AI labs for human experts to train the next generation of models, Sacra estimates that Mercor hit $50M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2024, growing 50x from $1M at the beginning of the year.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/timee-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43690:1" rel="noopener">Timee Inc (215A JP)</a> raised US$300m in its Japan IPO. The IPO had been a 100% secondary selldown by existing shareholders.</li>
<li>Timee operates an on-demand staffing platform that connects part-time jobseekers with businesses in Japan.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Timee Inc (215A JP) raised US$300m in its Japan IPO. The IPO had been a 100% secondary selldown by existing shareholders.
Timee operates an on-demand staffing platform that connects part-time jobseekers with businesses in Japan.
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.


Timee IPO Trading - Garnered a Strong Demand, Should Pop

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Upwork Inc. provides online recruitment services. The Company offers jobs in the categories such as website developers, virtual assistants, sales and marketing experts, accountants, and consultants. Upwork serves customers in the United States.

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Timee Inc (215A JP) raised US$300m in its Japan IPO. The IPO had been a 100% secondary selldown by existing shareholders.

Clarence Chu

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