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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 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]
As limited partners recognize that successful Fund 1s don't necessarily translate into successful Fund 2s or 3s, the VC landscape will see a greater focus on new managers who've launched less than ...
We work with VC firms in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich, New York, and Palo Alto, California. For junior roles, our clients prefer candidates with a background in investment banking or ...
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 ...
Sequoia was the first venture capital firm to offer a scout program, and the model has since been emulated by others in the industry. [106] [107] In December 2020, Sequoia expanded the scout program to Europe. [109] In 2021, Sequoia partnered on the BLCK VC Scout Network to provide training and education to current and aspiring Black scouts. [108]
A fourth VC, who invested in two of Al-Naji’s startups, offered a more clinical take based on his previous experience assessing situations where a founder goes wrong.
The public successes of the venture capital industry in the 1970s and early 1980s (e.g., DEC, Apple, Genentech) gave rise to a major proliferation of venture capital investment firms. From just a few dozen firms at the start of the decade, there were over 650 firms by the end of the 1980s, each searching for the next major "home run".