• Confirmed: Spotify Now Valued At €170 million

    Friday, August 7th, 2009

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    We’ve done more digging on the Spotify cap table story from yesterday, and have confirmed with one source that the company did close on at least part of the new round of financing the Financial Times reported they were negotiating earlier this week.

    Wellington Partners invested in the company some time prior to July 10, taking a 3.8% stake for €6.5 million, confirms our source. That implies a valuation of €170 million, or about $242 million based on today’s exchange rates. The previously reported valuation was $250 million.

    So what’s new? The fact that the valuation has been locked down and the round partially closed. As of a few days ago Li Ka-Shing had supposedly not yet officially joined the round and wasn’t happy with the valuation, but was presumed to be willing to accept the independent Wellington valuation. When the round is complete, Spotify will have a post money valuation of around €200 million, says our source.

    That means the company has roughly doubled in valuation from a year ago, when investors bought stock at a €100 million post money valuation. And the service hasn’t yet left beta.

    Tags:

    Sponsored Ads

    blog comments powered by Disqus

    Sponsored Ads

    Sponsored Ads

    Upcoming Events

    Disrupt SF 2012

    San Francisco, CA