Investors are looking for the future of e-commerce, and they think Pinterest is worth $5 billion . The company just raised $200 million.
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Pinterest said today that it raised $200 million in a round that values the company at $5 billion.
That hefty valuation isn't entirely surprising, given that the company is seen by investors as best-positioned to build out a tool for discovering content on the Web that is better than anything on the market right now. Pinterest recently unveiled a new search engine designed for just such a thing, which also has dramatic implications for the future of commerce on the Web.
A little more surprising, however, is how many companies Pinterest is now worth more than without even being a publicly-traded company — including some other technology companies that used to be hotly-anticipated impending IPOs much like Pinterest. Here's just a few of them based on data from Yahoo Finance (h/t @tomgara):
Domino's Pizza
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Domino's was valued at $4 billion at market close, according to Yahoo Finance.
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