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Below is a list of notable venture capital firms: Assets under management. Shown below are the largest venture capital firms ranked by Assets Under Management. [1]
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]
Corporate venture capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. [1] CVC is defined by the Business Dictionary as the "practice where a large firm takes an equity stake in a small but innovative or specialist firm, to which it may also provide management and marketing expertise; the objective is to gain a specific competitive advantage."
Slow Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York, Boston, and San Francisco, is raising two new funds, including a $165 million fund VI and a $110 million opportunity fund ...
A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The availability of venture funding is among the primary stimuli for the development of new companies and technologies.
Greycroft LP is an American venture capital firm. It manages over $2 billion in capital with investments in companies such as Bird, Bumble, HuffPost, Goop, Scopely, The RealReal, and Venmo. [1] [2] [3] Greycroft was founded in 2006 by Alan Patricof, Dana Settle, and Ian Sigalow. [4]
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".
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.