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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 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".
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".
During the 1960s and 1970s, venture capital firms focused their investment activity primarily on starting and expanding companies. More often than not, these companies were exploiting breakthroughs in electronic, medical or data-processing technology. As a result, venture capital came to be almost synonymous with technology finance.
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]
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.
He founded what’s now a $5.3 billion venture firm, ... becoming one of the most financially successful under-40-year-olds in business. His personality is understated but his ambitions are vast ...