Ramp reaches $60 billion valuation as it pushes deeper into AI

Expense management company Ramp said on Thursday that it had raised $1.85 billion in a new funding round that values it at $60 billion, just four months after raising $750 million at a $44 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch's report. Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital, and Avenir Growth co-led the financing.

This article covers the round and the valuation, the revenue, purchase-volume, and customer figures Ramp reported, and the expansion into payments, fraud detection, procurement, vendor management, and accounting. It also covers AI agents, a corporate credit card built for AI agents, model routing, and Glass. It is for finance teams buying cards, expense tools, and bill payments, and for readers following token usage monitoring and token spend management.

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The new round is $1.85 billion at a $60 billion valuation. Four months earlier, Ramp raised $750 million at a $44 billion valuation. Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital, and Avenir Growth co-led. Christian Jensen, partner at Dragoneer, said in a statement, "In just a few years, Ramp has become a much broader financial operations platform, with AI deeply embedded in how the company builds and operates. We believe Ramp is well on its way to becoming one of the defining companies of this era."

Other investors in the round include Capital International, Fidelity Management & Research Company, T. Rowe Price, D1 Capital Partners, Greenoaks, ICONIQ, GIC, 8VC, 1789 Capital, Alpha Wave Global, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Coatue, D.E. Shaw, Definition Capital, FirstMark, General Catalyst, Generation Investment Management, Glade Brook Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pinegrove Opportunity Partners, Soma Capital, and Stripes. The $1.85 billion round brings the total Ramp has raised to about $5 billion. Early investor Keith Rabois has backed the company through Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures.

Why Ramp reaches $60 billion valuation as it raised now

Ramp said annualized revenue has crossed $2 billion, up from a reported $1.5 billion in June. It said revenue growth is 25% faster than it was around this time last year. The company claims it now facilitates annualized purchase volume of over $275 billion, up 175% from a year earlier. Those figures are the operating numbers set beside the rise from a $44 billion valuation to $60 billion. June's revenue comparison is a reported $1.5 billion, and the $275 billion purchase volume is what Ramp claims.

Ramp says it has 85,000 customers, up from 70,000 in June. Named customers include Visa, Uber, Shopify, Robinhood, Anduril, Notion, Cursor, and Figma. The funding comes as Ramp has been expanding beyond expense management into payments, fraud detection, procurement, vendor management, and, of late, accounting. Ramp is still identified as an expense management company while those newer lines, accounting among them, sit on the roster beside the June baseline of 70,000 customers. Cursor and Figma are both named among them.

What the Ramp reaches $60 billion valuation as it money

Ramp has embedded AI agents into its procurement, expense management, accounting, budgeting, and other products. It launched a corporate credit card specifically designed for AI agents to use. In August, Ramp entered the model routing business to tap the AI inference market and give existing clients a model routing service that fits neatly with its current products, including AI token usage monitoring and token spend management. The routing service is for existing clients, and Ramp pairs it with token usage monitoring and token spend management.

Earlier this month, Ramp launched Glass, a workspace that collects and remembers the AI automations, prompts, and skills that an organization's employees build so others can take advantage of the company's collective knowledge and skills. Model routing started in August. The agent work covers procurement, expense management, accounting, and budgeting, and the card is a corporate credit card for AI agents. Jensen said Ramp is a much broader financial operations platform, with AI deeply embedded in how it builds and operates.

Competitive context for Ramp reaches $60 billion valuation as it

As its lineup widened, Ramp has increasingly run into Rippling, the HR and payroll software company that has pushed into corporate cards, expense management, and bill payments. The overlap puts the two companies in direct competition for the same finance-team budgets. Ramp's newer products include payments, fraud detection, procurement, vendor management, and accounting. Expense management is still how Ramp is identified, while the categories it shares with Rippling are corporate cards, expense management, and bill payments aimed at finance-team budgets.

Early investor Keith Rabois has backed Ramp through Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, both of which participated in this round. He spoke to TechCrunch last month. "Ramp is not worried about Rippling," Rabois said. "We're going to compete with Anthropic," he continued. "That's the goal. I want to be larger and more successful and more important than Anthropic. Ramp is going to be the primary way people manage their token spend, how they optimize it, how they measure ROI, and that will lead us to collide probably with Anthropic in many ways."

Open questions on Ramp reaches $60 billion valuation as it

This round values Ramp at $60 billion, four months after a $44 billion valuation on a $750 million raise, and the new check is $1.85 billion. Total funding is about $5 billion. Ramp said annualized revenue crossed $2 billion, up from a reported $1.5 billion in June, and that revenue growth is 25% faster than around this time last year. It claims annualized purchase volume of over $275 billion, up 175% from a year earlier. The 25% figure compares the pace of growth with last year. The volume figure is what the company claims.

Rippling, the HR and payroll company, overlaps Ramp on corporate cards, expense management, and bill payments, and both compete for the same finance-team budgets. Rabois said last month that Ramp is not worried about Rippling, that the goal is to compete with Anthropic, and that he wants Ramp larger, more successful, and more important than Anthropic. He said Ramp will be the primary way people manage token spend, optimize it, and measure ROI, and will probably collide with Anthropic in many ways. Model routing dates to August. Glass, earlier this month, stores automations, prompts, and skills.