Showing posts with label valuations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valuations. Show all posts
Monday, 22 October 2018

The most successful companies to come out of Y Combinator

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1 - Airbnb - $31bn valuation 2 - Stripe - $20bn 3 - Cruise - $14bn 4 - Dropbox - >$10bn 5 - Instacart - $7.6bn Source:  Techcrunch, ...
Monday, 10 April 2017

Six of the world's 10 most valuable companies are tech companies

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Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon , Berkshire Hathaway, Facebook , Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan, Tencent Source:   Bloo...
Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Axel Springer paid $343m for 88% of Business Insider

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"German publisher Axel Springer, which lost out to Japan's Nikkei in the race to buy the Financial Times two months ago, is paying ...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

8 companies from the Y Combinator accelerator programme are now worth more than $1bn

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"Total "valuation" of all YC companies: >$65 billion Total money raised by all YC companies: >$7 billion Number of YC...
Monday, 20 July 2015

An average of 8 billion dollar US-based technology companies were created each year between 2005 & 2013

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"1) We found 84 U.S.-based companies belong to what we call the “unicorn club,” a jaw-dropping 115% increase from our last post. Th...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Spotify is worth more than the entire US recording industry

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"Sources: Spotify valuation ($8.4 billion) calculated by Wall Street Journal, based on an upcoming, $400 million+ capital round led...
Monday, 5 January 2015

2014 was the biggest year for IPOs since 2000

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"Big companies weren't shy about going public in 2014. "With 273 IPOs, 2014 was the most active period of issuance since 406 ...
Monday, 3 November 2014

The fastest companies to reach a $1bn valuation

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Fastest launch-to-$1B valuation YouTube $1.65B 20 months Groupon $1.35B 17 months Slack $1.12B 14 months http://t.co/vAB2xGtJhY — ...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

9 of the world's top 20 internet companies are Asian

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Source:   Data from WSJ, quoted by Christian Hernandez on Medium, 22nd September 2014 Note - Data compiled before the Alibaba IPO
Thursday, 4 September 2014

Monocle is valued at appriximately $115m

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"Tyler Brûlé, the FT columnist known for his luxurious lifestyle, has sold a minority stake in his global affairs magazine Monocle to J...
Monday, 4 November 2013

The number of billion dollar companies founded in the US by year, 2013-2010

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Source:   Techcrunch, 2nd November 2013 Note - Article has lots more info, and names all the companies Also, 2010 wasn't necessaril...
Thursday, 24 October 2013

Pinterest is valued at $3.8 billion

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"According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investo...
Friday, 22 February 2013

Pinterest is valued at $2.5 billion

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"Online scrapbook Pinterest has raised a new $200 million round of funding that gives it a valuation of $2.5 billion, the company said ...
Friday, 4 January 2013

Twitter is valued at approximately $11 billion

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"A rough valuation for Twitter can be established through where its shares trade in online secondary markets, though a firm figure is d...
Monday, 17 September 2012

Mobile payments company Square is valued at $3.25 billion

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"Square, the mobile payments startup headed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has closed a more than $200 million fundraising round th...
Friday, 4 November 2011

Groupon's IPO values the company at $12.65bn

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"Groupon raised $700m in its highly anticipated initial public offering on Thursday night, overcoming a host of investor concerns to br...
Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Twitter is valued at $8bn

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"Twitter, the microblogging website that lets users tweet messages of 140 characters or less, is now worth $8bn (£4.9bn). The firm'...
Monday, 11 July 2011

Google's market capitalisation has risen by $16bn since the launch of Google+

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"How much is social worth to Google? Investors added $20 billion to Google’s market cap the first week after the launch of Google+ on J...