What are some of 500's biggest exits?
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our 3 largest exits to date have been Wildfire Interactive (acquired by Google for $350M, summer 2012), MakerBot (acquired/merger with Stratasys announced for $400M, summer 2013), and Viki (acquired by Rakuten for $200M, summer/fall 2013).
500 Startups was an early investor in all three companies (and I also invested in the Wildfire seed round via Facebook fbFund, which I managed in 2009 on behalf of Founders Fund and Accel).
we've had ~20 other positive exits including:
- Crocodoc (acq Box, 2013)
- BrightNest (acq Angie's List, 2013)
- Lexity/Vurve (acq Yahoo, 2013)
- Behance (acq Adobe, 2012)
- ZenCoder (acq BrightCove, 2012)
- MoonFruit (acq Yell, 2012)
- Rapportive (acq LinkedIn, 2012)
- TeachStreet (acq Amazon, 2012)
- FeeFighters (acq Groupon, 2012)
- Versly/TaskDoc (acq Cisco, 2011)
- Backtype (acq Twitter, 2011)
- Punchd (acq Google, 2011)
apologies for others I'm forgetting...
500 Startups was an early investor in all three companies (and I also invested in the Wildfire seed round via Facebook fbFund, which I managed in 2009 on behalf of Founders Fund and Accel).
we've had ~20 other positive exits including:
- Crocodoc (acq Box, 2013)
- BrightNest (acq Angie's List, 2013)
- Lexity/Vurve (acq Yahoo, 2013)
- Behance (acq Adobe, 2012)
- ZenCoder (acq BrightCove, 2012)
- MoonFruit (acq Yell, 2012)
- Rapportive (acq LinkedIn, 2012)
- TeachStreet (acq Amazon, 2012)
- FeeFighters (acq Groupon, 2012)
- Versly/TaskDoc (acq Cisco, 2011)
- Backtype (acq Twitter, 2011)
- Punchd (acq Google, 2011)
apologies for others I'm forgetting...
