John Harrison

John Harrison is a Partner in the Technology Companies Group and the co-leader of Orrick’s Artificial Intelligence Initiative. John advises high growth technology companies and venture capital firms in VC financings, M&A, corporate governance, IPOs and corporate and securities law matters.

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  Representative Engagements

  Representative clients include the following:

  • Represented Stripe in its Series D through Series I financings, raising over $8.5 billion, as well as numerous venture/strategic investments by Stripe in startups (Monzo, Step Mobile, Check, Rapyd, Fast, Pico, Pilot, Cuenca, PayMongo, Assembled, Accord, Ramp and TrueLayer), tender offers (liquidity programs), secondaries, acquisitions, corporate governance and strategic matters.
  • Represented Mercor in all fundraising rounds (raising over $480 million total), including its $350 million Series C financing from Felicis, General Catalyst and Benchmark at a $10 billion valuation.
  • Represented Polymarket in fundraising from Intercontinental Exchange at $9 billion valuation.
  • Represented Etched in all fundraising rounds, including its Series A financing led by Positive Sum and Primary Venture Partners.
  • Represented Flapping Airplanes in its $180 million financing at a $1.5 billion valuation from GV, Sequoia, Index Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
  • Represented PostHog in all fundraising rounds (over $190 million raised), including $75 million Series E at a $1,4 billion valuation led by Peak XV Partners.
  • Represented Magic in its $320 million funding round with contributions from Eric Schmidt, CapitalG, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Atlassian, Elad Gil, Jane Street, Sequoia and others.
  • Represented Solugen in its $200 million Series D financing at a more than $2 billion valuation led by Kinnevik, Lowercarbon and Refactor, its $357 million Series C financing led by Baillie Gifford and GIC, its $30 million Series B-1 financing, its $32 million Series B financing led by Founders Fund and debt financings.
  • Represented Weights & Biases in its $50 million equity financing led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
  • Represented Diamond Foundry in its $200 million Series C financing at a $1.8 billion valuation led by Fidelity.
  • Represented Moniepoint in its $200 million Series C financing at a valuation above $1 billion, and $50+ million equity financing round led by QED Investors.
  • Represented Atlan in its $105 million Series C funding round led by GIC at a $750 million valuation, its $50 million Series B financing led by Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia and Insight and its $18 million Series A financing.
  • Represented Interaction Company of California, backed by Spark Capital and General Catalyst, in all fundraising rounds, including $10 million raise at $300 million valuation.
  • Represented Enam Co in all fundraising rounds, including Elad Gil led round at over $300 million valuation.
  • Represented MarqVision in its $48 million Series B financing led by Peak XV Partners, $20 million Series A financing co-led by DST and Atinum Investments, with participation from Softbank and Y Combinator.
  • Represented SF Compute in all fundraising rounds, including its $40 million Series A financing at a $300 million valuation, led by DCVC and Wing Venture Capital, with participation by Electric Capital and Jack Altman's Alt Capital.
  • Represented Coatue as lead investor in DoorDash’s $250 million Series D financing at a $4 billion valuation, in Cobalt Robotics’ $35 million Series B financing and Cargo’s $22 million Series A financing.
  • Represented Coda in its $100 million Series D financing at a $1.4 billion valuation led by OTPPB, its $80 million Series C financing led by Kleiner Perkins, its Series B financing, a convertible note bridge round and investment and strategic partnership with Snowflake.
  • Represented Gigs in all fundraising rounds, including its $73 million Series B financing led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Google's Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, and Speedinvest.
  • Represented Taktile in all fundraising rounds (approximately $74 million raised), including $54 million Series B led by Balderton Capital with participation from Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Y Combinator and others.
  • Represented Replicate in its $40 million Series B financing at a $350 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from NVentures, Sequoia, and Y Combinator
  • Represented Slope in raising $252 million in debt and equity funding from investors including J.P. Morgan, Notable Capital (formerly GGV), Union Square Ventures, Monashees, Tiger Global, Sam Altman and Y Combinator, and lenders including SVB and Trinity Capital.
  • Represented Arta Finance in its $90 million in equity financing raised from Sequoia Capital India, Ribbit Capital, Coatue and over 140 prominent angels.
  • Represented Distributed Spectrum in its $25 million Series A financing led by Conviction, Shield Capital, and Nat Friedman.
  • Represented GitButler in its $17 million Series A financing led by a16z.
  • Represented Haize Labs in its seed financing at a $100 million valuation led by General Catalyst.
  • Represented Context in its $11 million seed financing led by Lux Capital with participation from Qualcomm Ventures and General Catalyst.
  • Represented Gather in its $50 million Series B financing led by Sequoia and Index, and its $26 million Series A financing.
  • Represented Pelago (formerly Quit Genius) in raising $151 million over several preferred stock rounds, from investors including Kinnevik, Atomico and Octopus Ventures.
  • Represented Envisics in its $100 million Series C financing a valuation above $500 million and $50 million Series B financing led by Hyundai Mobis and GM Ventures.
  • Represented Flower Labs in its $20 million Series A financing at a $100 million valuation led by Felicis Ventures.
  • Represented Daedalus in its $21 million Series A financing led by NGP Capital, with participation from Kholsa Ventures and Addition.
  • Represented Let’s Do This in its $60 million Series B financing led by Headline and Craft Ventures, and its $15 million Series A financing led by EQT Ventures.
  • Represented Fintual in its $39 million Series B financing led by Sequoia.
  • Represented Cal.com in its $25 million Series A financing led by Seven Seven Six.
  • Represented Upkeep in its $36 million Series B financing led by Insight Partners and $10 million Series A led by Emergence Capital.
  • Represented SafetyWing in its $35 million Series B financing led by Kinnevik and its $8 million Series A financing led by Creandum.
  • Represented Nuvocargo in its $36.5 million Series B financing at a $250 million valuation led by QED and in its $20.5 million Series A financing led by Tiger Global.
  • Represented Keen Technologies in its $20 million financing round with participation from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Tobi Lütke and Sequoia, among other investors.
  • Represented PostEra in its $24 million Series A financing led by Clermont Group, and initial NIH grant funding of $68 million.
  • Represented Forage in its $25 million Series B financing led by Blackbird Ventures and $9.3 million Series A financing led by Lightspeed.
  • Represented Allium in its $16.5 million Series A financing led by Theory Ventures.
  • Represented Humaans in its $15 million Series A financing led by Lachy Groom, and $5 million Series Seed financing.
  • Represented PowerUs in its $25.7 million Series B financing from Eurazeo, General Catalyst, Headline, and HV Capital and $10 million Series A financing.
  • Represented Localyze in its $35 million Series B financing led by General Catalyst, and its $12 million Series A led by Blossom Capital.
  • Represented Medallion in its $20 million Series A financing led by Spark Capital.
  • Represented Planet Labs in multiple financings.
  • Represented Dave in in its $50 million Series B financing at a $1 billion valuation led by Norwest.
  • Represented Sqreen in its $14 million Series A financing led by Greylock.
  • Represented Second Spectrum in its Series B financing led by August Capital.
  • Represents numerous other technology companies in negotiation of VC financings, “flip” transactions, employee equity issuances, negotiation of commercial agreements, intellectual property issues and strategic matters.

  Representative M&A transactions include the following:

  • Represented Weights & Biases in sale of the company to CoreWeave for $1.7 billion.
  • Represented Coda in sale of the company to Grammarly.
  • Represented Invoice2go in sale of the company to Bill.com for $625 million.
  • Represented Sqreen in sale of the company to Datadog for $260 million.
  • Represented Wrike in sale of majority stake to Vista Equity Partners at $800 million valuation.
  • Represented Sonantic in sale of the company to Spotify.
  • Represented Replicate in sale of the company to Cloudflare.
  • Represented Second Spectrum in sale of the company to Genius Sports for $200 million.
  • Represented Forage in sale of the company to EAB.
  • Represented Arcus FI in sale of the company to Mastercard.
  • Represented Intuit in acquisitions of Check (for $360 million), CustomerLink, Full Slate and Level Up Analytics, and sale of Demandforce to Internet Brands.
  • Represented Kythera Biopharmaceuticals in sale to Allergan for $2.1 billion.
  • Represented Sorin in $2.7 billion cross-border merger with Cyberonics.
  • Represented Ulthera in sale to Merz Pharma for $600 million and its acquisition of Cabochon Aesthetics.
  • Represented Finesse Solutions in sale to Thermo Fisher Scientific for $220 million.