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Views • Featured in e27 • Upvoted by Gil Silberman, I've founded more startups than I can remember, and advised hundreds. and Keith Rabois, I worked at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and Square, invested in YouTube, yammer, and serve on the Board…
0 exits >$1B (Unicorns):
6 exits >$100M (Centaurs):
30+ exits <$100M (Ponies):
other up & coming 500 Unicorns & Centaurs:
(apologies to other 500 co's kicking ass i overlooked)
- [watch this space; see "up & coming" below]
6 exits >$100M (Centaurs):
- MakerBot, acq SSYS $402M, June 2013
- Wildfire, acq GOOG $350M, July 2012
- Viki, acq Rakuten $200M, Sept 2013
- Behance, acq ADBE ~$150M, Dec 2012
- Simple, acq BBVA $117M, Feb 2014
- Sunrise, acq MSFT $100M, Feb, 2015
30+ exits <$100M (Ponies):
- AppStores (acq InMobi)
- Backtype (acq Twitter)
- Blink Booking (acq Groupon)
- Brightnest (acq Angie's List)
- Cardmunch (acq LinkedIn)
- Connected (acq LinkedIn)
- Creative Market (acq Autodesk)
- Crocodoc (acq Box)
- FeeFighters (acq Groupon)
- Flowtown (acq DemandForce/Intuit)
- Foodspotting (acq OpenTable)
- Gyft (acq First Data)
- Khush (acq Smule)
- Lagoa (acq Autodesk)
- Lettuce (acq Intuit)
- Lexity (acq Yahoo)
- Lightbox (acq Facebook)
- Little Eye Labs (acq Facebook)
- Lovely (acq RentPath)
- Moonfruit (acq YELL Group)
- Other Inbox (acq ReturnPath)
- Punchd (acq Google)
- Rapportive (acq LinkedIn)
- Streem (acq Box)
- TasteSpace (acq DeliveryHero)
- TeachStreet (acq Amazon)
- TinyPost (acq TripAdvisor)
- TouristEye (acq LonelyPlanet)
- Versly (acq Cisco)
- Vessel (acq Marketo)
- Zappli (acq Shopzilla)
- Zencoder (acq Brightcove)
- ZipDial (acq Twitter)
other up & coming 500 Unicorns & Centaurs:
- Credit Karma (Founders Fund, Felicis, QED, Google, Tiger)
- Twilio (Kapor, Founders Fund, USV, Bessemer)
- GrabTaxi (Vertex, GGV, Tiger, Softbank)
- TalkDesk (Storm)
- Smule (Bessemer, Floodgate, Shasta)
- Intercom (Freestyle, Social+Capital, Bessemer)
- Ipsy (Crosscut, Bullpen)
- Sendgrid (Techstars, Foundry, Bessemer)
- Remind (First Round, Social+Capital, KP)
- VivaReal (Monashees, Kaszek, Valiant, Spark)
- Udemy (MHS, Lightbank, Norwest, Insight)
- WePay (YC, August, Highland, Ignition, FTV)
- Virool (YC, Fabrice Grinda, Menlo, DFJ, DST)
- BarkBox (Bertelsmann, RRE, Lerer, Polaris)
- TheRealReal (Greycroft, Canaan, Industry, Interwest)
- Sprig (MHS, Battery, Great Oaks, Accel, Greylock)
- PlanGrid (YC, Sequoia)
- Tradesy (Launchpad, Rincon, KP)
- Life360 (fbFund, Bullpen, DCM, Bessemer)
- Peertransfer (Spark, Maveron, Accel, QED, Bain)
- Vungle (AngelPad, SoftTech, Google, Crosslink)
- eLaCarte (YC, Lightbank, Intel)
- Gengo (Atomico, Intel, NTT, Iris)
- Bustle (Social+Capital, General Catalyst)
- Zozi (Launch Capital, ZIG Capital)
- ContaAzul (Monashees, Ribbit)
- ToutApp (Founder Collective, Sigma West, A16Z)
- Mayvenn (Base, Launch Capital, Silicon Badia)
- OwnLocal (YC, Lerer, Baseline)
(apologies to other 500 co's kicking ass i overlooked)
