The start-ups that can expand and grow are the focus of venture capitalists to invest in. The money invested by the investors is used by VC-backed companies in their products. Did you know currently, VC firms provide funding to the most innovative organizations? VCs provide funding to Airbnb, Facebook, PayPal, Google, and eBay and then they return exponential returns after some time. In the past few years, a change has been experienced in the VC industry. Heavy investments were made by most VC firms in the energy industry in the early 80s. The innovation and popularity of technologies like big data, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain have increased in the last few years. However, the focus of VCs is the latest technologies such as IoT and AI to make heavy investments. Massive amounts have been shown in data such that $9.3 billion have been collected by AI startups in 2018 alone by VCs. The Pitchbook report presents that in 2020 the positive deals were made by VC with the firms increasing $148 billion on 14 December 2020. The popular and valuable Venture-backed Companies include DoorDash and Airbnb which were introduced in markets through IPOs in 2020. The value of Airbnb was around $47 billion when it went public and currently is trading value is more than $100 billion. Whereas the value of DoorDash was $39 when it went public and it has now raised 50% of the initial value. This article will give you information about Top 10 Global VC Companies as shared by Insider Monkey.
One company is Sequoia Capital. Among the top 15 largest VC companies around the globe, Sequoia Capital is the one. CrunchBase’s recent data shows that the company is currently the largest investor of the year with almost 340 exit points. The initial investments in DoorDash, Airbnb, and Unity Technologies were made by the Sequoia Capital VC company. The company is also among the most active investors which are leading the industry with open investments in 9 unicorns exit companies such as WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Palo Alto Networks. Another company is Index Ventures. The company named Index Ventures was established in 1996 in London which is a Venture Capital organization. The company has invested in the early stage, seed, as well as growth-stage of the companies which are related to retail, software, travel, communication sector, media, business services, fintech, healthcare, entertainment, and infrastructure. The notable exits of the organization involve Etsy, Just Eat, and Dropbox. Visit this article 15 Biggest VC Companies in the World and read about other companies.
