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The firm's most successful investment was a 1997 investment of $6.7 million in eBay for 22.1% of the company. [2] In 2011, it invested $12 million for an 11% stake in Uber, worth $7 billion in 2019 and $9.4 billion in 2023. [3]
Rank Firm Headquarters Assets under management 1: Andreessen Horowitz: Menlo Park, CA: $42.0B 2: Sequoia Capital: Menlo Park, CA: $28.3B 3: Dragoneer Investment Group
The weighted cost of capital (WACC) is used in finance to measure a firm's cost of capital. WACC is not dictated by management. Rather, it represents the minimum return that a company must earn on an existing asset base to satisfy its creditors, owners, and other providers of capital, or they will invest elsewhere. [4]
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or ...
In 1972, the firm now known as Kleiner Perkins was the first venture capital firm to open an office on Sand Hill Road. The stellar performance of Kleiner Perkins's first $8 million fund quickly attracted other similar firms to the Menlo Park area, resulting in "the most important cluster of venture capital firms in the world", an author later ...
He founded what’s now a $5.3 billion venture firm, Thrive Capital, ... becoming one of the most financially successful under-40-year-olds in business. His personality is understated but his ...
The firm ranked first in the "Founder's Choice VC" list of more than 200 venture capital firms in 2023. [ 10 ] The firm closed $3.1 billion in new capital across three funds as of November 2023 including $1 billion for later-stage companies, $500 million for seed-stage companies and $1.6 billion for its eighth flagship fund.
A decade after Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn,” she knows that the term has taken on a life of its own—and is imperfect. “It’s an ephemeral word, it’s a point in time,” she told me.