Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Penguin Random House raised.
Companies Penguin Random House acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Penguin Random House. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Blackbird's investment note announcing it led the seed round in hiring platform Applied, describing its anonymised review process, CEO Kate Glazebrook's background, early customers, co-investors, and Blackbird's own analyst hires made via the platform.