First Zimbabwean startup backed by Techstars TC Insights Hopin triples valuation within a year Virtual events platform Hopin has had quite a year! It recently raised a $400m Series C round, its third round in a year, raising its valuation to $5.6 billion. Funding journey:In the last year, Hopin has raised a total of $565 million in venture capital funding, including a $40 million round in June and $125 million in November, the latter on a valuation of $2 billion What’s different about Hopin: Unlike most other videoconferencing services, it’s designed from the ground up to provide support for conferences, including the management of stages, networking, breakout sessions, sponsors, tickets and analytics.