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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]
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]
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."
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]
Venture capital expert Alex Witt shares how Generative AI, robotics, EVs, and other trends will impact the industry in the next decade. A successful VC predicts what the next 10 years in the ...
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 ...
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 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.