Sentences with phrase «value of some unicorns»

And as the value of unicorns has grown, so too has their weight in many mutual fund portfolios.

Not exact matches

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

Many of these late - stage companies are known as unicorns, as their valuations exceed $ 1 billion, and they include car - share service Uber and apartment - share service Airbnb, which are currently valued at more than $ 50 billion and $ 13 billion, respectively.

Valued at $ 2.8 billion, it's officially a unicorn — and therefore one of the avatars of this era, much as the nifty 50 or dot - coms were of theirs.

Part of the reason that «unicorns» — startups with a value of at least $ 1 billion — are staying private is economics.

Zenefits also zoomed to the top of this year's list of unicorns for 2015, thanks to a staggering $ 500 million Series C venture capital round, which increased its value from $ 500 million in 2014 to $ 4.5 billion today.

This explosion in popularity landed FanDuel in the top 10 of the Silicon Alley 100; its $ 275 million series E funding round in July valued the company at more than $ 1 billion, vaulting it to the ranks of so - called «unicorn» startups.

It boasts 75,000 members, and with $ 350 million in venture capital, Oscar is now valued at $ 1.75 billion, landing it on this year's list of unicorns, named for companies with valuations in excess of $ 1 billion.

And in March, Vancouver - based Hootsuite, one of only two Canadian companies to have been valued at $ 1 billion, was kicked out of the «unicorn club» when Fidelity Investments, which led its 2014 $ 60 - million funding round, wrote down its investment by 18 %.

This year, mutual funds reduced the value of initial investments in some high - profile unicorns, in what is likely a sign of things to come.

Unicorn If you were wondering why crazy successful tech startups — ones that are valued at more than $ 1 billion — are called unicorns, you can thank Aileen Lee, a venture capitalist and the founder of the firm Cowboy Ventures.

Nutanix is one of the high - profile unicorns, or venture - backed tech companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, that have been waiting in the IPO pipeline.

The environment has changed radically for highly valued unicorns that have depended for years on follow - on rounds of financing to grow and stay afloat.

Th round catapults the firm into «unicorn» territory, the swelling ranks of private firms occupied by young guns valued at $ 1 billion or more.

On Wednesday, the founder of Dutch payments company Adyen which is valued at $ 2.3 billion, said that the Unicorn status is not necessarily something to strive for.

Investing in «unicorns» — or start - ups valued over $ 1 billion — has become a «substantially more dangerous and complicated practice», top venture capitalist Bill Gurley warned on Thursday, highlighting emerging trends including the rise of «sharks» or opportunistic investors offering «dirty» conditions to entrepreneurs.

For Silicon Valley's «unicorns,» the writing is on the wall — literally, flyers warning of their plummeting values are appearing on walls.

Adyen is part of the growing group of «unicorns» - or start - ups valued over $ 1 billion.

The latest cash injection elevates Duo into the rarified ranks of the so - called unicorn club, a collection of prized startups privately valued at a billion dollars or more.

When business software company Twilio filed paperwork in May to go public, it was separating itself from the dozens of other so - called «unicorn» startups that are valued at $ 1 billion or more.

There's always the hope and belief that the value created by a few successful unicorns will offset the losses of those that fail.

The half - a-trillion-plus-dollars figure is the value of the 173 unicorns we counted, according to investors in the companies.

«Most unicorns and many tech IPOs are perhaps overvalued, but a few of them are actually UNDER - valued as well,» he argues in a new blog post.

He's particularly concerned about the rise of so - called «unicorns,» or private companies valued at more than $ 1 billion — though he says that as long as investors are showering some startups with cash, entrepreneurs should embrace unicorn status.

IPOs started to dry up in the middle of last year, notes Paragon; valuations of unicorn startups (valued at more than $ 1 billion) dropped, and employment declined.

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 «The Age of the Unicorns» noting — «Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $ 1 billion or more by venture capitalists.»

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

Among so - called unicorns, tech startups with valuations of more than $ 1 billion, Airbnb trails only Uber (reportedly close to closing a new round of funding at a value of $ 50 billion) and Chinese phone - maker Xiaomi ($ 46 billion).

The new funding valued Fanduel at $ 1.3 billion and pushing it into a growing group of startups with $ 1 billion valuations known colloquially as the «unicorn club.»

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If we take 20 % of the total value of U.S. based unicorns and divide it by the trailing twelve month proceeds raised by VC backed U.S. IPOs, it would currently take an estimated 6 1/2 years for all U.S. unicorns to IPO — nearly 6X longer than 24 months ago and more than double the trailing 24 month median.

In fact, over the last three months, despite four new U.S. start - ups becoming unicorns — the total value of America's unicorns declined by $ 0.4 billion.

With the backing of a true long - term value investor, Lightspeed is poised to be a Montreal based success story and in the rarefied air of unicorns perhaps. . .

Of its seven portfolio firms, four â $ «Hike, Ola, Snapdeal and InMobi â $ «are unicorns, meaning each startup has been valued at more than $ 1 billion.

Company CEO Travis Kalanick's call on Sunday for an internal investigation into a sexual harassment claim by a female engineer is the latest in a litany of controversies that have dogged the largest of unicorns, one with a market value of nearly $ 70 billion and climbing.

But Vancouver is also home to three of the four Canadian tech «unicorns» — startup companies that are valued at US$ 1 billion or more.

In 2017, there were 57 startups that crossed the unicorn threshold, and they range from well - known companies, such as Reddit or Quora, to rapid - risers like China's Toutiao (now valued at $ 20 billion), which has seemingly come out of nowhere.

For example, CB Insights reported that the 10 highest valued unicorns had an aggregate valuation of $ 122 billion and an aggregate invested capital of $ 12 billion.

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Being a startup valued at more than a billion dollars — an anomaly that venture capitalists dub a unicorn — comes with scrutiny, and many wonder whether Moderna's pipeline, consisting mostly of vaccines for now, will expand to match the company's original vision of mRNA as a broad treatment platform.

Mead from Sheffield is working with BenevolentAI, one of a handful of British «unicorns» - private companies with a market value above $ 1 billion, in this case $ 1.7 billion - which is rapidly expanding operations at its offices in central London.

This is partly due to the success of a couple of hundred so - called «unicorns» — venture - backed startups that have reached a value of $ 1 billion or more.

From the «Adjusted Earnings» disease to privately funding and valuing Unicorns, to the («alleged») Theranos fraud, to zero covenant lending, to the spectacle of Elon Musk and Tesla.

For argument's sake, let's pick the top unicorn valuation ($ 47 + Billion) and benchmark this amount against the market value of the # 1 rank company in the world ($ 270 + Billion) *.

So when a startup valuation ventures into the 15 - 17 % bracket of the industry leader in revenue or market value, it becomes a Unicorn.

A unicorn would be about 17 % the value of the industry pinnacle.

At the end of the day, however, it's yet another unicorn going public — potentially a good sign for investors looking for more exits as they sit on a glut of highly - valued unicorns.

Dropbox is the first of the so - called tech unicorns — companies valued over $ 1 billion — to go public this year.

In the Startup world, A Unicorn is a Startup company that has a value of over a Billion Dollars.