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The Billion Dollar Startup Club

February 20, 2015 Contributor

By Scott Austin, Chris Canipe and Sarah Slobin of WSJPublished Feb. 18, 2015

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The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource are tracking venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. See how the club has expanded since the project began in January 2014 and select companies to learn more about each.

For an interactive list visit; graphics.wsj.com/billion-dolar-club/

All Companies as of February 2015

Company Latest Valuation Total Equity Funding Last Valuation
Xiaomi

$46.0 billion

$1.4 billion
December 2014
Uber

$41.2 billion

$2.8 billion
December 2014
Palantir

$15.0 billion

$1.0 billion
September 2014
SpaceX

$12.0 billion

$1.1 billion
January 2015
Flipkart

$11.0 billion

$2.5 billion
November 2014
Airbnb

$10.0 billion

$800 million
April 2014
Dropbox

$10.0 billion

$607 million
January 2014
Snapchat

$10.0 billion

$615 million
December 2014
Theranos

$9.0 billion

$400 million
June 2014
Meituan

$7.0 billion

$1.1 billion
January 2015
Square

$6.0 billion

$495 million
August 2014
Pinterest

$5.0 billion

$764 million
May 2014
WeWork

$5.0 billion

$569 million
December 2014
Cloudera

$4.1 billion

$670 million
March 2014
Spotify

$4.0 billion

$521 million
November 2013
Stripe

$3.5 billion

$190 million
December 2014
Jawbone

$3.3 billion

$531 million
February 2014
Fanatics

$3.1 billion

$320 million
June 2012
VANCL

$3.0 billion

$512 million
December 2011
Legendary Entertainment

$3.0 billion

$900 million
September 2014
Pure Storage

$3.0 billion

$470 million
April 2014
Bloom Energy

$2.9 billion

$1.2 billion
September 2011
Powa

$2.7 billion

$156 million
November 2014
InMobi

$2.5 billion

$216 million
December 2014
Houzz

$2.3 billion

$215 million
October 2014
Dianping

$2.0 billion

$569 million
February 2014
Trendy Group

$2.0 billion

$200 million
February 2012
Nutanix

$2.0 billion

$312 million
August 2014
Magic Leap

$2.0 billion

$592 million
October 2014
Snapdeal

$2.0 billion

$1.0 billion
October 2014
Coupang

$2.0 billion

$418 million
December 2014
Instacart

$2.0 billion

$275 million
December 2014
Delivery Hero

$1.9 billion

$1.2 billion
February 2015
Intarcia Therapeutics

$1.8 billion

$598 million
March 2014
MongoDB

$1.6 billion

$311 million
December 2014
DocuSign

$1.6 billion

$237 million
March 2014
Adyen

$1.5 billion

$500 million
December 2014
Koudai Shopping

$1.4 billion

$364 million
October 2014
Jasper Technologies

$1.4 billion

$204 million
April 2014
Deem

$1.4 billion

$474 million
September 2011
Social Finance

$1.3 billion

$399 million
February 2015
Sunrun

$1.3 billion

$295 million
March 2014
AppNexus

$1.2 billion

$251 million
August 2014
Automattic

$1.2 billion

$190 million
May 2014
Fab

$1.2 billion

$335 million
June 2013
Gilt Groupe

$1.1 billion

$275 million
April 2011
Slack

$1.1 billion

$180 million
October 2014
Actifio

$1.1 billion

$208 million
March 2014
Proteus Digital Health

$1.1 billion

$354 million
June 2014
AppDynamics

$1.1 billion

$177 million
July 2014
IronSource

$1.1 billion

$103 million
August 2014
Home24

$1.0 billion

$20 million
December 2014
Yello Mobile

$1.0 billion

$112 million
December 2014
CloudFlare

$1.0 billion

$72 million
December 2012
Evernote

$1.0 billion

$302 million
May 2012
Good Technology

$1.0 billion

$388 million
April 2013
Eventbrite

$1.0 billion

$200 million
March 2014
Tango

$1.0 billion

$367 million
March 2014
InsideSales.com

$1.0 billion

$139 million
April 2014
Mogujie

$1.0 billion

$200 million
June 2014
Kabam

$1.0 billion

$245 million
August 2014
Lookout

$1.0 billion

$284 million
August 2014
JustFab

$1.0 billion

$250 million
August 2014
Honest Co.

$1.0 billion

$122 million
August 2014
Credit Karma

$1.0 billion

$194 million
March 2014
Qualtrics

$1.0 billion

$220 million
September 2014
Razer

$1.0 billion

$50 million
October 2014
Shopify

$1.0 billion

$122 million
December 2013
Ola Cabs

$1.0 billion

$277 million
October 2014
Shazam

$1.0 billion

$170 million
January 2015
Beibei

$1.0 billion

$124 million
January 2015
Grabtaxi

$1.0 billion

$340 million
December 2014
Moderna

$1.0 billion

$625 million
January 2015
Beats Electronics

Exited

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August 2014
Box

Exited

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December 2014
Coupons.com

Exited

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March 2014
Fisker Automotive

Exited

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March 2014
Hanhua Financial

Exited

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June 2014
GoPro

Exited

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June 2014
Hortonworks

Exited

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November 2014
JD.com

Exited

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May 2014
LaShou

Exited

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November 2014
Lending Club

Exited

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December 2014
Mobileye

Exited

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August 2014
Nest Labs

Exited

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February 2014
New Relic

Exited

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December 2014
Rocket Internet

Exited

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October 2014
Wayfair

Exited

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October 2014
Zalando

Exited

--
October 2014
Analyzing the Club
TOP COUNTRIES:
United States 50
China 8
India 4
Germany 2
United Kingdom 2
TOP CITIES:
San Francisco, Calif. 20
New York, N.Y. 5
Beijing, China 4
Palo Alto, Calif. 4
Sunnyvale, Calif. 2
TOP INDUSTRIES:
Software 23
Consumer Internet 15
E-Commerce 15
Financial Services 5
Hardware 4
TOP INVESTORS:
Sequoia Capital 17
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 15
Tiger Global Management 11
Andreessen Horowitz 10
Accel Partners 10

Note: This chart only includes companies that are privately held, have raised money in the past four years and have at least one venture-capital firm as an investor. Excluded from this list are companies that were majority-controlled by an institutional investment firm at one point. Only valuations confirmed by VentureSource or The Journal are included, based on direct investments, not secondary deals. The chart will be updated as new information is reported.

Source: Dow Jones VentureSource and The Wall Street Journal

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