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5.29.26
Wilson Sonsini Advises Arc on $10.76 Million Seed Funding
On May 26, 2026, voice AI start-up Arc announced the launch of its drive-through platform and a $10.76 million Seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation by Adverb Ventures, Broadway Restaurant Group, LLC, United Talent Agency, and others. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Arc on the financing.
Founded by Square and Cash App veterans Mike MacLennan and Ali Hussain, Arc is the only voice AI platform purpose-built to bring e-commerce-grade optimization to the drive-through. Powered by its proprietary AI voice ordering system, Arc’s platform “lets operators manage their drive-through with the precision, measurability, and curated experience of a modern digital channel,” according to MacLennan. The company is already working with two major fast-food chains and says its system can complete orders on its own over 95 percent of the time.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Arc on the financing included Mark Baudler, Jonathan Chan, Jocqui Kaup, Peter Bratton, James Power, Mounika Yepuri, and Annie Xu.
For more information, please see coverage from Fortune and Startup Fortune.
Founded by Square and Cash App veterans Mike MacLennan and Ali Hussain, Arc is the only voice AI platform purpose-built to bring e-commerce-grade optimization to the drive-through. Powered by its proprietary AI voice ordering system, Arc’s platform “lets operators manage their drive-through with the precision, measurability, and curated experience of a modern digital channel,” according to MacLennan. The company is already working with two major fast-food chains and says its system can complete orders on its own over 95 percent of the time.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Arc on the financing included Mark Baudler, Jonathan Chan, Jocqui Kaup, Peter Bratton, James Power, Mounika Yepuri, and Annie Xu.
For more information, please see coverage from Fortune and Startup Fortune.
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8.20.25
Wilson Sonsini Advises 1Kosmos on $57 Million Series B
On August 12, 2025, 1Kosmos, a leader in identity proofing and passwordless authentication, announced a $57 million Series B funding round, including a $10 million line of credit from Bridge Bank. The round was led by Forgepoint Capital and Origami’s Oquirrh Ventures with participation by Craig Abod, Founder and President of Carahsoft, NextEra Energy Ventures, Gula Tech Adventures, and the 1Kosmos management team. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised 1Kosmos on the transaction.
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7.08.25
Wilson Sonsini Advises Landbase on $30 Million Series A Funding
In June 2025, Landbase, a San Francisco, CA–based agentic AI company, announced their $30 million Series A funding. The round was led by Sound Ventures and Picus Capital, with participation from 8VC, A*, Firstminute Capital, and TheGP. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Landbase in the financing.
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1.30.25
Wilson Sonsini Advises ElevenLabs on $180 Million Series C Funding
On January 30, 2025, ElevenLabs announced that it has raised $180 million in a Series C funding round to make speech the new standard for digital interaction. The round was co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth, with additional new investors NEA, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund, and Lunate. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Smash Capital, SV Angel, NFDG, and BroadLight Capital are also increasing their support. The company is further partnering with strategic investors, including Deutsche Telekom, LG Technology Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and RingCentral Ventures. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised ElevenLabs on the Series C transaction.
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9.19.24
Wilson Sonsini Advises Gamebeast on $3.7 Million Fundraise
On September 19, 2024, Gamebeast, a tooling platform in the user-generated content (UGC) video game industry "unlocking maximum growth potential" for Roblox developers, has announced a pre-Seed raise of $3.7 million. The raise was led by J2 Ventures, a $250-million deep-tech venture capital firm based in Boston, with significant participation from incubating investor a16z SPEEDRUN, The Mini Fund, and Le Zhang, CEO of Spaceport. Gamebeast is the first no-code platform designed for Roblox developers, but its solutions are also useful in other digital optimization environments, such as defense applications. The funding will be used to launch on new platforms, leverage AI-driven analytics, build a leading data insights and reporting platform in the user-generated content space, and enhance Gamebeast's internal insights platform for strategic game and data acquisitions simultaneously with the work it will launch with the U.S. Military.
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4.23.24
Wilson Sonsini Advises Pantera Capital on $21 Million Financing for Mezo
On April 9, 2024, Thesis, a venture studio, announced Mezo, a new Bitcoin layer 2 solution, and disclosed the closing of a $21 million fundraising for Mezo led by Pantera Capital. Mezo is a permissionless Bitcoin economic layer leveraging a neutral smart contract infrastructure to offer a more diverse range of user-centric applications. Mezo is designed to amplify Bitcoin's infrastructure, provide cheap and fast transactions, and allow users to access real applications that use Bitcoin. Other investors in the fundraise included Multicoin, Hack VC, ParaFi Capital, Nascent, Draper Associates, Primitive Ventures, and Asymmetric Ventures.
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9.15.23
Wilson Sonsini Advises AI App Learn.xyz on $3 Million Seed Funding
On September 14, 2023, Learn.xyz, a generative AI learning start-up based in San Francisco, announced the launch of its fully AI-powered social learning app on iOS and Android on the heels of closing a $3 million seed financing round. Launching to a global market the app allows users to learn about any topic, in almost any language. Learn.xyz’s app is like a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. The company launched into closed beta in March, and its early adopters have created more than 60,000 Curiosities to date. These Curiosities cover every imaginable topic, from history to physics to biology to sports.
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2.23.23
Wilson Sonsini Advises WideOrbit in Acquisition by Constellation Software, Lumine Group
On February 22, 2023, Constellation Software and its subsidiary Lumine Group Inc. announced they have completed the previously announced agreement and plan of merger to purchase 100 percent of the shares of WideOrbit Inc. WideOrbit, a U.S.-based media vertical market software provider serving as the system of record for more than 5,000 stations and cable networks worldwide, processing more than $35 billion in advertising revenue annually.
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9.19.22
Wilson Sonsini Represents Amprius Technologies in SPAC Transaction
On September 14, 2022, Amprius Technologies, Inc., a lithium-ion batteries manufacturer, announced the completion of its business combination with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp IV, a special purpose acquisition company. The company has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “AMPX.” The transaction will provide Amprius with approximately $87 million of gross proceeds, which will be used to support the company through the construction of its gigawatt hour-scale manufacturing facility.
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6.06.22
Wilson Sonsini Advises DoorDash on Acquisition of Wolt
On May 31, 2022, DoorDash completed its previously announced acquisition of Wolt Enterprises Oy (Wolt), bringing DoorDash to a total of 27 countries including the United States. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented DoorDash in the transaction, in collaboration with Avance Attorneys Ltd. and Allen & Overy LLP.
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4.21.22
Wilson Sonsini Advises Lead Investor Temasek on UPSIDE Foods' $400 Million Series C
On April 21, 2022, UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats), a leading company in the cultivated meat, poultry, and seafood industry, announced the close of a $400 million Series C funding round that brings the company's valuation to over $1 billion. The Series C round was co-led by Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, and the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, a new investor. Other new investors include Baillie Gifford, Givaudan, John Doerr, SALT fund, and Synthesis Capital. They are joined by existing investors Bill Gates, Cargill, Cercano Management, CPT Capital, Dentsu Ventures, Singapore-based global investor EDBI, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Norwest Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, SOSV's Indie Bio, and Tyson Foods. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Temasek on the transaction.
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2.04.22
Wilson Sonsini Represents Bungie in $3.6 Billion Acquisition by Sony
On January 31, 2022, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Bungie, a premier independent videogame developer and long-time partner of SIE that has created some of the videogame industry’s most highly-acclaimed franchises, including Halo and Destiny. The total consideration of this transaction is $3.6 billion, inclusive of purchase price and committed employee incentives, and is subject to customary working capital and other adjustments. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Bungie in the transaction.