Michael Suyat

Cooley advised Founders Fund, a venture capital firm investing in smart people solving difficult problems, as a co-lead investor in Anduril Industries’ $1.5 billion Series F funding round, which increased Anduril’s valuation to $14 billion.

Cooley advised Cache DNA, a life sciences company revolutionizing biological sample and data storage infrastructure, on the close of its seed round.

Cooley advised restaurant chain sweetgreen on its $418.6 million initial public offering of 14,950,000 shares of Class A common stock, which now trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SG. Partners Nick Hobson, David Peinsipp, Siana Lowrey and Charlie Kim led the Cooley team advising sweetgreen.

Cooley advised Blockdaemon, the world's largest blockchain infrastructure company for node management and staking, on its acquisition of Anyblock Analytics, an infrastructure platform providing API, on chain analytic tools, monitoring and node hosting services. Partner Rachel Proffitt led the Cooley team advising Blockdaemon.

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Cooley advised Confluent on its $828 million initial public offering of 23,000,000 shares of Class A common stock. Confluent trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CFLT. Confluent has developed a new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion, and its cloud-native platform is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data from multiple sources to constantly stream across the organization. Jon Avina, Siana Lowrey and Milson Yu led the Cooley team.