COMPANIES

Public (NASDAQ: TXG) — spatial biology growth driving revenue expansion

10X GENOMICS

Founder

Serge Saxonov & 2 others

Founded

2012

Public (NASDAQ: TXG)

11X

Founder

Hasan Sukkar

Founded

2022

$74 million

15FIVE

Founder

David Hassell and Shane Metcalf

Founded

2012

$8.2 million

1X TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Bernt Børnich

Founded

2014

$125 million

23ANDME

Founder

Anne Wojcicki & 2 others

Founded

2006

$1.1 billion

Bankrupt (2025)

2U

Founder

Chip Paucek, Jeremy Johnson

Founded

2008

$480 million

Bankrupt (2024)

6SENSE

Founder

Amanda Kahlow & 2 others

Founded

2013

$426 million

Decentralized protocol (AAVE token traded on major exchanges)

8X8

Founder

Chi-Shin Wang, Y.W. Sing

Founded

1987

Public (NASDAQ: EGHT since 1997)

Public (NASDAQ: EGHT)

DeFi

AAVE

Founder

Stani Kulechov

Founded

2017

$49 million (equity rounds) + protocol treasury

ABNORMAL SECURITY

Founder

Evan Reiser

Founded

2018

$520 Million

Private (valued at $850M+ as of 2024)

ABRIDGE

Founder

Shiv Rao

Founded

2018

$212.5 million

ABSCI

Founder

Sean McClain

Founded

2011

~$430M

Public (NASDAQ: ABSI)

ACKO

Founder

Varun Dua

Founded

2016

$400 million

ACORNS

Founder

Jeff Cruttenden, Walter Cruttenden

Founded

2012

$507 million

ADA

Founder

Mike Murchison & David Hariri

Founded

2016

$200 million

ADALO

Founder

David Adkin & 2 others

Founded

2018

approximately $5.4 million

Bankrupt (Chapter 11 filed June 2023)

ADYEN

Founder

Pieter van der Does, Arnout Schuijff

Founded

2006

$266 million

Public (Euronext: ADYEN)

RIPAgTech

AEROFARMS

Founder

David Rosenberg

Founded

2004

$238 million

Services Tech

AEROVIRONMENT

Founder

Paul MacCready

Founded

1971

Publicly traded since 2007 IPO on NASDAQ (AVAV)

Public (NASDAQ: AVAV)

AEVA TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Soroush Salehian, Mina Rezk

Founded

2017

$513 million

Public (NYSE: AEVA)

AFFIRM

Founder

Max Levchin

Founded

2012

$1.5 Billion

Public (NASDAQ: AFRM)

Acquired by Block (Square) for $29 billion

AFTERPAY

Founder

Nick Molnar & Anthony Eisen

Founded

2015

$450 million

Public (NASDAQ: API) — profitable on non-GAAP basis

AGORA

Founder

Tony Zhao

Founded

2014

Public (NASDAQ: API)

AGROSMART

Founder

Mariana Vasconcelos, Rodrigo Rodrigues

Founded

2014

~$16 million

AGROSTAR

Founder

Shardul Sheth, Sitanshu Sheth

Founded

2013

~$120 million

AI21 LABS

Founder

Yoav Shoham & 2 others

Founded

2017

$636 million

AIRBNB

Founder

Brian Chesky & 2 others

Founded

2008

$6.4 billion (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: ABNB)

AIRBYTE

Founder

Michel Tricot, John Lafleur

Founded

2020

$181 million

AIRCALL

Founder

Olivier Pailhes and Jonathan Anguelov

Founded

2014

$226 million

AIRTABLE

Founder

Howie Liu & 2 others

Founded

2012

$1.4 billion

AIRWALLEX

Founder

Jack Zhang & 3 others

Founded

2015

$902 million

AIVA

Founder

Pierre Barreau

Founded

2016

$2.8M

Private — valued at $4 billion (2024)

ALAN

Founder

Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve

Founded

2016

$500 million

ALCHEMY

Founder

Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau

Founded

2017

$545 million

ALEPH ALPHA

Founder

Jonas Andrulis

Founded

2019

$500 million

Private — valued at $2.25B

ALGOLIA

Founder

Nicolas Dessaigne, Julien Lemoine

Founded

2012

$334 million

Public (NASDAQ: BIRD) — market cap ~$80 million (down from $4B)

ALLBIRDS

Founder

Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger

Founded

2016

$202 million

AMBIENCE HEALTHCARE

Founder

Michael Ng, Nikhil Buduma

Founded

2020

$313 million

Acquired by Shutterstock (2020)

AMPER MUSIC

Founder

Drew Silverstein & 2 others

Founded

2014

$5M

AMPERE COMPUTING

Founder

Renée James

Founded

2017

$850 million

Acquired by SoftBank (2025)

Public (NASDAQ: AMPL) — market cap ~$1.5 billion

AMPLITUDE

Founder

Spenser Skates & Curtis Liu

Founded

2012

$336 million

Public (NYSE: AMWL) — market cap approximately $300 million (down from $10 billion peak)

AMWELL

Founder

Roy Schoenberg, Ido Schoenberg

Founded

2006

$900M+ (IPO in 2020)

Private (valued at $1.5B as of 2021)

ANDELA

Founder

Jeremy Johnson & 4 others

Founded

2014

$381 million

Defense

ANDURIL

Founder

Palmer Luckey & 4 others

Founded

2017

$3.7 billion

Private ($14B valuation)

Web3

ANIMOCA BRANDS

Founder

Yat Siu

Founded

2014

$600 million+

Private (valued at $5.9B in 2022, likely lower post-crypto winter)

Private ($61.5B valuation)

ANT GROUP

Founder

Jack Ma

Founded

2014

$34.4 billion

Private (IPO blocked)

ANTHROPIC

Founder

Dario & Daniela Amodei

Founded

2021

$13.7 Billion

ANYSCALE

Founder

Ion Stoica & 2 others

Founded

2019

$259M raised

Active — one of the leading AI infrastructure platforms for distributed training and inference

ANYSPHERE

Founder

Michael Truell & 3 others

Founded

2022

$1.1 billion

ANYWORD

Founder

Yaniv Makover, Adam Habari

Founded

2013

$30 million

APEEL SCIENCES

Founder

James Rogers

Founded

2012

$635 Million

APOLLO.IO

Founder

Tim Zheng

Founded

2015

$250 million

Bankrupt (July 2023) — assets acquired by Mastronardi Produce in bankruptcy proceedings

RIPAgriTech

APPHARVEST

Founder

Jonathan Webb

Founded

2017

$632M raised

APPLIED INTUITION

Founder

Qasar Younis & Peter Ludwig

Founded

2017

$612 million

APPSMITH

Founder

Abhishek Nayak & 2 others

Founded

2019

$41 million

Decentralized protocol (APT token on major exchanges)

APTOS

Founder

Mo Shaikh, Avery Ching

Founded

2022

$400 million

AQUA SECURITY

Founder

Dror Davidoff, Amir Jerbi

Founded

2015

$265 million

ARABLE

Founder

Adam Wolf, Spyros Archimedes

Founded

2014

$52 million

Decentralized protocol (ARB token, Arbitrum DAO governance)

ARBITRUM

Founder

Ed Felten & 2 others

Founded

2018

$123.7 million

ARCADIA

Founder

Kiran Bhatraju

Founded

2014

$250 million

ARCHER AVIATION

Founder

Brett Adcock, Adam Goldstein

Founded

2018

$1.1 billion+

Public (NYSE: ACHR)

ARCTIC WOLF

Founder

Brian NeSmith

Founded

2012

$900 Million

RIPAutonomous Vehicles

ARGO AI

Founder

Bryan Salesky, Peter Rander

Founded

2016

$3.6 billion

Shut Down (2022)

AROUND

Founder

Dominik Zane & 2 others

Founded

2019

$29M raised

Acquired by Miro (2022)

Private — operating and growing. Backed by Jeff Bezos.

ARRIVED HOMES

Founder

Ryan Fraizer & 2 others

Founded

2019

$162M

ASANA

Founder

Dustin Moskovitz, Justin Rosenstein

Founded

2008

$453 million

Public (NYSE: ASAN)

ASHBY

Founder

Benjamin Encz, Abhik Pramanik

Founded

2018

Over $84 million

Private (SPAC deal collapsed)

ASPIRATION

Founder

Andrei Cherny

Founded

2013

$500 million+

ASPIRE

Founder

Andrea Baronchelli & 2 others

Founded

2018

$100 million

ASSEMBLED

Founder

Ryan Wang & 2 others

Founded

2018

$70.7 million

Public (NASDAQ: ASTR) — market cap ~$100 million (down from $2.1B)

ASTRA

Founder

Chris Kemp & Adam London

Founded

2016

$355 million

ATOME

Founder

Jefferson Chen

Founded

2019

Over $500 million (group)

ATTENTIVE

Founder

Brian Long & Andrew Jones

Founded

2016

$863 million

AURORA INNOVATION

Founder

Chris Urmson

Founded

2017

$2.5 Billion

Public (NASDAQ: AUR)

Acquired by Okta (2021, $6.5B)

AUTH0

Founder

Eugenio Pace and Matias Woloski

Founded

2013

$330M

Private — valued at approximately $6.8 billion. Filed for IPO but withdrew in 2024.

AUTO1 GROUP

Founder

Hakan Koc, Christian Bertermann

Founded

2012

$1.1 billion

Public (FRA: AG1)

AUTOMATION ANYWHERE

Founder

Ankur Kothari, Mihir Shukla

Founded

2003

$1.1B

AUTOMATTIC

Founder

Matt Mullenweg

Founded

2005

$988 million

Blockchain

AVALANCHE

Founder

Emin Gün Sirer

Founded

2018

$350 million

AVANTSTAY

Founder

Sean Breuner

Founded

2017

$70 million

AYAR LABS

Founder

Chen Sun & 3 others

Founded

2015

$220 million

AYE FINANCE

Founder

Sanjay Sharma and Vikram Jetley

Founded

2014

Over $400 million (equity and debt)

Private (IPO filed)

BACK MARKET

Founder

Thibaud Hug de Larauze & 2 others

Founded

2014

$884 million

BALTO

Founder

Marc Bernstein & 2 others

Founded

2017

$52 million

BAMBOOHR

Founder

Ben Peterson, Ryan Sanders

Founded

2008

$233 million

Public (Nasdaq First North: BUSER)

BAMBUSER

Founder

Mans Adler, Henrik Lif

Founded

2007

$50 million+

Owned by Songtradr (acquired 2023)

BANDCAMP

Founder

Ethan Diamond

Founded

2008

Bootstrapped

BANK JAGO

Founder

Jerry Ng and Patrick Walujo

Founded

2020

Over $600 million

Public (IDX: ARTO)

BARKBOX

Founder

Matt Meeker & 2 others

Founded

2012

$474 million

Public (NYSE: BARK)

Private (PE-backed by North Castle Partners and General Atlantic)

BARRY'S

Founder

Barry Jay

Founded

1998

Majority stake acquired by North Castle Partners (2019), followed by General Atlantic investment (2021)

BASETEN

Founder

Tuhin Srivastava & 3 others

Founded

2019

$2 billion+

Private (acquired by STG Partners, 2018)

BAZAARVOICE

Founder

Brett Hurt, Brant Barton

Founded

2005

~$200M (incl. $162M IPO)

BEAM MOBILITY

Founder

Alan Jiang, Deb Gangopadhyay

Founded

2018

$135 million

BEAUTIFUL.AI

Founder

Mitch Grasso

Founded

2018

$66 million

Active — growing, approaching $10M ARR

Media Tech

BEEHIIV

Founder

Tyler Denk & 2 others

Founded

2021

$33M raised

RIPMarketplace

BEEPI

Founder

Ale Resnik, Owen Savir

Founded

2014

$150 million

Shut down (2017)

BENEVOLENTAI

Founder

Ken Mulvany

Founded

2013

$300M+

Public (Euronext Amsterdam: BAI)

Acquired by Voodoo for ~$500M

BEREAL

Founder

Alexis Barreyat and Kévin Perreau

Founded

2020

$90 Million

Active — consistently #3 in US sports betting, strong in iGaming

BETMGM

Founder

Adam Greenblatt (CEO), joint venture of MGM Resorts + Entain

Founded

2018

JV between MGM Resorts and Entain (no separate fundraise)

RIPElectric Vehicles

BETTER PLACE

Founder

Shai Agassi

Founded

2007

$850 million

Bankrupt (2013)

BETTER.COM

Founder

Vishal Garg

Founded

2016

$900 million

Public (Nasdaq: BETR)

Acquired by Teladoc (2015)

BETTERHELP

Founder

Alon Matas, Danny Bragonier

Founded

2013

Acquired for $4.5 billion

BETTERMENT

Founder

Jon Stein, Eli Broverman

Founded

2008

$435 million

Public (NASDAQ: BYND) — Stock down 95% from peak

BEYOND MEAT

Founder

Ethan Brown

Founded

2009

$200 Million (pre-IPO)

BEZERO CARBON

Founder

Tommy Ricketts, Brennan Spellacy

Founded

2020

~$85 million

Private (valued at $2.85B as of 2022)

BHARATPE

Founder

Ashneer Grover, Shashvat Nakrani

Founded

2018

$700 million

Subsidiary of Tata Group — acquired for approximately $1.3 billion in 2021

BIGBASKET

Founder

Hari Menon & 4 others

Founded

2011

$1.1B

Operating (CZ sentenced, stepped down as CEO)

BIGCOMMERCE

Founder

Eddie Machaalani & Mitchell Harper

Founded

2009

$350 million

Public (NASDAQ: BIGC)

Crypto / Fintech

BINANCE

Founder

Changpeng Zhao (CZ)

Founded

2017

$15 million (ICO only)

Bankrupt (Chapter 11 filed December 2023)

BIONTECH

Founder

Uğur Şahin & 2 others

Founded

2008

$3.8 billion

Public (NASDAQ: BNTX)

RIPMobility

BIRD

Founder

Travis VanderZanden

Founded

2017

$780 million

BLACK FOREST LABS

Founder

Robin Rombach & 2 others

Founded

2024

$450 million

BLACKSKY

Founder

Jason Andrews

Founded

2014

~$450 million

Public (NYSE: BKSY)

BLEND

Founder

Nima Ghamsari & 3 others

Founded

2012

$665 million

Public (NYSE: BLND)

BLINKIST

Founder

Holger Seim & 3 others

Founded

2012

$35 million

Acquired by Go1 (2023)

Subsidiary of Zomato (NSE: ZOMATO) — acquired in August 2022 for approximately $568 million

BLINKIT

Founder

Albinder Dhindsa, Saurabh Kumar

Founded

2013

$190M (before Zomato acquisition)

BLOCK (SQUARE)

Founder

Jack Dorsey

Founded

2009

$590 Million

Public (NYSE: XYZ)

Aerospace

BLUE ORIGIN

Founder

Jeff Bezos

Founded

2000

$15+ billion (mostly Bezos personal)

Private (Bezos-funded)

Private — 30M+ users, growing

BLUESKY

Founder

Jay Graber (CEO), initiated by Jack Dorsey

Founded

2019

$36 Million

Private — Valued at $8.4B

BOLT

Founder

Markus Villig

Founded

2013

$2.3 Billion

BOLT CHECKOUT

Founder

Ryan Breslow

Founded

2014

~$950M

BOLT FINANCIAL

Founder

Ryan Breslow

Founded

2014

$1 billion

Private (~$2.1B valuation)

BOLTTECH

Founder

Richard Li and Eric Gewirtzman

Founded

2020

$640 million

BOOKING.COM

Founder

Geert-Jan Bruinsma

Founded

1996

Bootstrapped / Acquired

Public (NASDAQ: BKNG)

Private — XB-1 demonstrator flying, Overture in development

BOOM SUPERSONIC

Founder

Blake Scholl

Founded

2014

$700 Million+

BOOMY

Founder

Alex Mitchell

Founded

2018

$8M

Private — operating but facing industry headwinds. Multiple competitors have gone bankrupt.

AgTech

BOWERY FARMING

Founder

Irving Fain

Founded

2015

$647M

BRANCH INSURANCE

Founder

Steve Lekas, Joe Emison

Founded

2017

$232.5 million

BRANCH INTERNATIONAL

Founder

Matt Flannery and Daniel Jung

Founded

2015

$320 million

BRAZE

Founder

Bill Magnuson & 2 others

Founded

2011

$175M pre-IPO

Public (NASDAQ: BRZE)

BREX

Founder

Henrique Dubugras, Pedro Franceschi

Founded

2017

$1.5 billion

BRIGHTSIDE HEALTH

Founder

Mimi Winsberg, Brad Kittredge

Founded

2017

$100 million+

BRILLIANT

Founder

Sue Khim and Tony Chow

Founded

2012

$88 Million

Active — 800+ enterprise customers globally including The Home Depot and Walmart

BRINGG

Founder

Guy Bloch, Lior Sion

Founded

2013

$100M raised

BUBBLE

Founder

Emmanuel Straschnov and Josh Haas

Founded

2012

$106 million

BUDIBASE

Founder

Michael Shanks & 2 others

Founded

2019

$7.4 million

BUILDER.IO

Founder

Steve Sewell

Founded

2017

$97 million

BUILDERTREND

Founder

Dan Houghton & 2 others

Founded

2006

Primarily bootstrapped, with growth equity from Bain Capital and HGGC (2021)

BUILDOTS

Founder

Roy Danon & 2 others

Founded

2018

$60 million

BUILT ROBOTICS

Founder

Noah Ready-Campbell

Founded

2016

$112 million

BUKALAPAK

Founder

Achmad Zaky & 2 others

Founded

2010

$880 million

Public (IDX: BUKA)

BUN

Founder

Jarred Sumner

Founded

2021

$7 million

Private (valued at $1.8B in 2024)

BUNQ

Founder

Ali Niknam

Founded

2012

$300 million+ (mostly founder-funded)

Public (NYSE: BFLY) — market cap approximately $400 million (down from $5 billion SPAC peak)

BUTTERFLY NETWORK

Founder

Jonathan Rothberg

Founded

2011

$600M+ (SPAC in 2021)

Public (SZSE: 002594, HKEX: 1211)

BYD

Founder

Wang Chuanfu

Founded

1995

Bootstrapped (later public)

RIPEdTech

BYJU'S

Founder

Byju Raveendran

Founded

2011

$5.5 billion

Collapsed (insolvency proceedings, valued at near-zero)

C3.AI

Founder

Tom Siebel

Founded

2009

$IPO in 2020

Public (NYSE: AI) — market cap approximately $3 billion. Ticker symbol is literally "AI"

C6 BANK

Founder

Marcelo Kalim, João Albino Winkelmann

Founded

2018

$1.6 billion

Private — operating. Valued at approximately $800 million at peak

CADRE

Founder

Ryan Williams & 2 others

Founded

2014

$133M

CAL.COM

Founder

Peer Richelsen, Bailey Pumfleet

Founded

2020

$32 million

SaaS / Productivity

CALENDLY

Founder

Tope Awotona

Founded

2013

$350 million

Private ($3B valuation)

CALIBRATE

Founder

Isabelle Kenyon

Founded

2019

$123 million

CALM

Founder

Alex Tew, Michael Acton Smith

Founded

2012

$218 million

Design

CANVA

Founder

Melanie Perkins & 2 others

Founded

2013

$572 million

Private ($26B valuation)

CAPTIONS

Founder

Gaurav Misra, Dwight Churchill

Founded

2021

$100 million

CARBON

Founder

Joseph DeSimone, Philip DeSimone

Founded

2013

$680 million

Acquired by Occidental Petroleum (2023) for undisclosed amount

CARBON ENGINEERING

Founder

David Keith

Founded

2009

$200 million

CAROUSELL

Founder

Quek Siu Rui & 2 others

Founded

2012

$290 million

Private — valued at $7.4 billion (2022, likely lower now)

CARTA

Founder

Henry Ward

Founded

2012

$1.1 billion

CARTESIA

Founder

Karan Goel & 4 others

Founded

2023

$191 million

Acquired by Thomson Reuters (2023) for $650M

CARVANA

Founder

Ernie Garcia III

Founded

2012

$6.2 billion

Public (NYSE: CVNA)

CASETEXT

Founder

Jake Heller & 2 others

Founded

2013

$83 million

Private (taken private 2022 for $286M)

CASPER

Founder

Philip Krim

Founded

2014

$340 million

Collapsed — went into administration (UK equivalent of bankruptcy) in 2024. Shares delisted.

CAZOO

Founder

Alex Chesterman

Founded

2018

$2B

Private — valued at $13 billion (2022)

CD PROJEKT

Founder

Marcin Iwinski, Michal Kicinski

Founded

1994

Self-funded (public company)

Public (WSE: CDR)

CELONIS

Founder

Alexander Rinke & 2 others

Founded

2011

$1.4B

Private (valued at $4.8B peak, now significantly lower)

CEREBRAL

Founder

Kyle Robertson

Founded

2020

$300 million

CEREBRAS SYSTEMS

Founder

Andrew Feldman & 5 others

Founded

2016

$720 million

Active — Chai-1 model live, commercial API in early access

CHAI DISCOVERY

Founder

Aron Lichtman, Joshua Meier

Founded

2024

$30M raised

Private (~$8.6B valuation)

CHAINALYSIS

Founder

Michael Gronager & 2 others

Founded

2014

$590M+

CHAINLINK

Founder

Sergey Nazarov

Founded

2017

$32 million (ICO)

CHARACTER.AI

Founder

Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas

Founded

2021

$693 million

CHARLIE HEALTH

Founder

Carter Barnhart

Founded

2020

$400M+

Climate Tech

CHARM INDUSTRIAL

Founder

Peter Reinhardt

Founded

2018

$175 million

CHATWOOT

Founder

Pranav Raj S & 2 others

Founded

2017

$1.6 million

CHECKOUT.COM

Founder

Guillaume Pousaz

Founded

2012

$1.8 billion

Public (NYSE: CHGG) — Stock down 90%+ from peak

CHEGG

Founder

Aayush Phumbhra & 2 others

Founded

2005

$265 Million (pre-IPO)

CHEWY

Founder

Ryan Cohen & Michael Day

Founded

2011

$451 million

Public (NYSE: CHWY)

CHIME

Founder

Chris Britt & Ryan King

Founded

2012

$2.3 Billion

Private ($25B valuation)

Private — valued at $2 billion (2022, likely lower)

CHIPPER CASH

Founder

Ham Serunjogi & Maijid Moujaled

Founded

2018

$305 million

CHROMA

Founder

Jeff Huber, Anton Troynikov

Founded

2022

~$18M

Fintech / Stablecoin

CIRCLE

Founder

Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville

Founded

2013

$1.1 billion

Private (IPO planned)

CIRCLE COMMUNITY

Founder

Sid Yadav & 2 others

Founded

2020

~$10 million

CLARI

Founder

Andy Byrne, Venkat Rangan

Founded

2012

$500 million

CLARK ASSOCIATES

Founder

Founding Family

Founded

1971

Bootstrapped (Debt-financed)

Acquired by Mindbody (2021)

CLASSPASS

Founder

Payal Kadakia

Founded

2013

$549 million

CLAY

Founder

Kareem Amin & Nicolae Rusan

Founded

2017

$222 million

CLEARCOVER

Founder

Kyle Nakatsuji

Founded

2016

$355 million

Private (Flipkart subsidiary)

CLEARTRIP

Founder

Stuart Crighton & 2 others

Founded

2006

$30 million

CLICKHOUSE

Founder

Alexey Milovidov

Founded

2021

$300 million

CLICKUP

Founder

Zeb Evans

Founded

2017

$537 Million

Private ($4B valuation)

Private — Operating Orca and Mammoth plants in Iceland

CLIMEWORKS

Founder

Jan Wurzbacher and Christoph Gebald

Founded

2009

$800 Million+

CLIO

Founder

Jack Newton

Founded

2008

$410 million

CLIP

Founder

Adolfo Babatz and Vilash Poovala

Founded

2012

Over $550 million

CLOUDFLARE

Founder

Matthew Prince & 2 others

Founded

2009

$332 million

Public (NYSE: NET)

CLOUDTALK

Founder

Martin Malych and Viktor Vanek

Founded

2016

$45.3 million

CLOUDWALK

Founder

Luis Silva

Founded

2013

$365 million

Private — Drastically downsized from peak

CLUBHOUSE

Founder

Paul Davison and Rohan Seth

Founded

2020

$110 Million

COCKROACHDB

Founder

Spencer Kimball & 2 others

Founded

2015

$633 million

Acquired by Buildertrend (2021)

COCONSTRUCT

Founder

Donny Wyatt

Founded

2006

Bootstrapped

Acquired by Grammarly (2024)

CODA

Founder

Shishir Mehrotra, Alex DeNeui

Founded

2014

Over $240 million

COFRAME

Founder

Josh Payne

Founded

2023

$9.3 million

Active — Devin in paid access, building toward enterprise deployments

COGNITION AI

Founder

Scott Wu & 2 others

Founded

2023

$175M raised

COHERE

Founder

Aidan Gomez & 2 others

Founded

2019

$975 million

COHERE HEALTH

Founder

Nikhil Garg

Founded

2019

$100M+

Private (Series B)

COINBASE

Founder

Brian Armstrong

Founded

2012

$547 Million

Public (NASDAQ: COIN)

Private — valued at $1.5 billion (2021)

COLOR HEALTH

Founder

Othman Laraki

Founded

2015

$278 million

COMET ML

Founder

Gideon Mendels, Nimrod Lahav

Founded

2017

$67 Million

COMMENTSOLD

Founder

Brandon Kruse

Founded

2016

$46 million

COMMONWEALTH FUSION SYSTEMS

Founder

Bob Mumgaard

Founded

2018

$2 billion+

Private (pre-revenue)

Public (NASDAQ: CFLT) — market cap ~$9 billion

COMPASS

Founder

Robert Reffkin, Ori Allon

Founded

2012

$1.6 billion

Public (NYSE: COMP)

Cloud Infrastructure

CONFLUENT

Founder

Jay Kreps & 2 others

Founded

2014

$456 million

CONSENSYS

Founder

Joseph Lubin

Founded

2014

$725 million

CONTENTFUL

Founder

Sascha Konietzke, Paolo Negri

Founded

2013

$351 million

Private — valued at $3B

CONVERTKIT

Founder

Nathan Barry

Founded

2013

$2.75 million

Active — growing in the developer tools market

CONVEX

Founder

James Cowling & 2 others

Founded

2021

$60M raised

RIPLogistics

CONVOY

Founder

Dan Lewis, Grant Goodale

Founded

2015

$900 million

Shut down (October 2023)

COPPER BANKING

Founder

Eddie Behringer

Founded

2019

$25 million

Private (last valued ~$200M)

COPY.AI

Founder

Chris Lu, Paul Yacoubian

Founded

2020

$40 million

COREWEAVE

Founder

Michael Intrator & 3 others

Founded

2017

$1.5 billion IPO (plus billions in debt)

Public (NASDAQ: CRWV)

COSMOS

Founder

Jae Kwon, Ethan Buchman

Founded

2014

$17 million

Active (Decentralized)

COUPANG

Founder

Bom Kim

Founded

2010

$3.4 billion

Public (NYSE: CPNG)

COURSERA

Founder

Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller

Founded

2012

$464 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: COUR)

COVER

Founder

Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph

Founded

2014

$73.3 million

CREATORIQ

Founder

Igor Vaks

Founded

2014

$56.6M

CRED

Founder

Kunal Shah

Founded

2018

$900 million

CREDITAS

Founder

Sergio Furio

Founded

2012

$829 million

CRESTA

Founder

Zayd Enam & 2 others

Founded

2017

$151 million

CRISP

Founder

Baptiste Jamin, Valerian Saliou

Founded

2015

Bootstrapped ($0 raised)

CROPIN

Founder

Krishna Kumar, Chandra Nair

Founded

2010

$108 million

CROPX

Founder

Isaac Bentwich, Tomer Tzach

Founded

2015

$60 million+

CROWDSTRIKE

Founder

George Kurtz

Founded

2011

$476 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: CRWD)

RIPAutonomous Vehicles

CRUISE

Founder

Kyle Vogt

Founded

2013

$10 Billion+

Shut Down (2024)

CRUSOE

Founder

Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness

Founded

2018

$1.5+ billion (equity)

CULTURE AMP

Founder

Didier Elzinga

Founded

2011

$267 million

Public (NASDAQ: CVAC) — market cap approximately $700 million (down from $25 billion peak)

Biotech

CUREVAC

Founder

Ingmar Hoerr & 2 others

Founded

2000

$2B+ (including IPO)

CURRENCYCLOUD

Founder

Nigel Verdon & 2 others

Founded

2012

$140+ million

Acquired by Visa (2021)

Private — valued at $2.2 billion (2021)

CURRENT

Founder

Stuart Sopp

Founded

2015

$400 million

CURSOR

Founder

Michael Truell & 3 others

Founded

2022

$400M raised

Active — reportedly $100M+ ARR in 2024, fastest-growing developer tool

CYBEREASON

Founder

Lior Div & 2 others

Founded

2012

$850 million

Active — shipping Corsair chips to early customers

D-MATRIX

Founder

Sid Sheth, Sunil Gowda

Founded

2019

$242M raised

D-WAVE

Founder

Geordie Rose

Founded

1999

$670 million

Public (NYSE: QBTS)

Private — valued at $1.1 billion (2021, likely lower)

DAILY HARVEST

Founder

Rachel Drori

Founded

2015

$310 million

DANDY

Founder

Henry Stott

Founded

2020

$250M+

Private ($7.6B peak valuation)

DAPPER LABS

Founder

Roham Gharegozlou

Founded

2018

$610M+

Private (acquired by Thoma Bravo, 2024)

DARKTRACE

Founder

Poppy Gustafsson

Founded

2013

$230 Million (pre-IPO)

Data Analytics

DATABRICKS

Founder

Ali Ghodsi & 6 others

Founded

2013

$4.2 billion

Private ($62B valuation)

DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure

DATADOG

Founder

Olivier Pomel, Alexis Lê-Quôc

Founded

2010

$148 million (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: DDOG)

DATAROBOT

Founder

Jeremy Achin, Tom de Godoy

Founded

2012

$1B

Private — valued at approximately $6.3 billion at 2021 peak. Has experienced significant layoffs.

Public (NASDAQ: DAVE) — market cap ~$1.5 billion

DAVE

Founder

Jason Wilk

Founded

2017

$361 million

DBT LABS

Founder

Tristan Handy

Founded

2016

$414 million

DECAGON

Founder

Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas

Founded

2023

$481 million

Private — valued at $12 billion (2024)

DEEL

Founder

Alex Bouaziz & Shuo Wang

Founded

2019

$679 million

DEEPGRAM

Founder

Scott Stephenson & 2 others

Founded

2015

$216 million

Private ($1.3B valuation)

DEEPMIND

Founder

Demis Hassabis & 2 others

Founded

2010

$Acquired by Google for ~$500M

Subsidiary of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) — Demis Hassabis serves as CEO of Google DeepMind

DEEPNOTE

Founder

Jakub Jurovy & 2 others

Founded

2019

$20 million

DEHAAT

Founder

Shashank Kumar, Amrendra Singh

Founded

2012

$157 million

DELHIVERY

Founder

Sahil Barua & 4 others

Founded

2011

$2 Billion+

Public (NSE: DELHIVERY)

DENO

Founder

Ryan Dahl

Founded

2018

$26 million

Acquired by Etsy for $1.63 billion (2021)

DEPOP

Founder

Simon Beckerman

Founded

2011

$105 million

DESCRIPT

Founder

Andrew Mason

Founded

2017

$100 million

Private — valued at $12.6 billion (2021)

DEVOTED HEALTH

Founder

Todd Park & Ed Park

Founded

2017

$1.8 billion

DIALPAD

Founder

Craig Walker, John Rector and Brian Peterson

Founded

2011

$476 million

Delisted from NYSE — OTC trading in Hong Kong

DIDI

Founder

Cheng Wei

Founded

2012

$25 Billion+

DIGIT INSURANCE

Founder

Kamesh Goyal, Jasleen Kohli

Founded

2016

$450 million

Private (IPO planned)

DISCORD

Founder

Jason Citron & Stan Vishnevskiy

Founded

2015

$995 Million

Private ($15B valuation)

DISTROKID

Founder

Philip Kaplan

Founded

2013

$100 million

Private (acquired by Brookfield 2023)

DIVVY HOMES

Founder

Adena Hefets & 3 others

Founded

2017

$735 million

DLOCAL

Founder

Andrés Bzurovski, Sergio Fogel

Founded

2016

$200 million

Public (NASDAQ: DLO)

DOCUSIGN

Founder

Tom Gonser & 2 others

Founded

2003

$516 million

Public (NASDAQ: DOCU)

Private (under regulatory scrutiny)

DONE HEALTH

Founder

Ruthia He

Founded

2020

$43 million

Delivery

DOORDASH

Founder

Tony Xu & 3 others

Founded

2013

$2.5 billion

Public (NYSE: DASH)

DOXEL

Founder

Saurabh Ladha, Robin Singh

Founded

2016

$40 million

Public (NASDAQ: DKNG) — profitable on an adjusted EBITDA basis as of 2024

DRAFTKINGS

Founder

Jason Robins & 2 others

Founded

2012

Public (NASDAQ: DKNG)

DRATA

Founder

Adam Markowitz & 2 others

Founded

2020

$328 million

Private ($3B valuation)

Private — valued at $2.75 billion. Royal Match is a top-10 grossing mobile game globally.

DREAM GAMES

Founder

Soner Aydemir

Founded

2019

$468M

Private — valued at $8 billion (2024)

DREAM11

Founder

Harsh Jain & Bhavit Sheth

Founded

2008

$1.2 billion

Private (Vista Equity Partners, 2023)

DUCK CREEK TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

David Diers, Jeff Stevens

Founded

2000

$230 million

DUNE ANALYTICS

Founder

Fredrik Haga, Mats Olsen

Founded

2018

$79.4 million

DUOLINGO

Founder

Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker

Founded

2011

$183 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: DUOL)

EASYPOST

Founder

Jarrett Streebin

Founded

2012

$87 million

Private — navigating funding challenges. Has raised significant capital but needs more for scaling

EAT JUST

Founder

Josh Tetrick, Josh Balk

Founded

2011

$800M

RIPLogistics

ECOM EXPRESS

Founder

T.A. Krishnamurthy & 3 others

Founded

2012

$350M raised

Insolvent (April 2024) — filed for bankruptcy after losing major customers

EIGHT SLEEP

Founder

Matteo Franceschetti & 4 others

Founded

2015

$161 million

Private — valued at $3.3 billion (2024)

ELASTIC

Founder

Shay Banon & 3 others

Founded

2012

$162M (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: ESTC)

ELEVENLABS

Founder

Piotr Dabkowski & Mati Staniszewski

Founded

2022

$180 million

ELLIPTIC

Founder

James Smith & 2 others

Founded

2013

$110M+

RIPAutonomous Vehicles

EMBARK TECHNOLOGY

Founder

Alex Rodrigues, Brandon Moak

Founded

2016

$520 million

Shut down (2023)

EMBRACER GROUP

Founder

Lars Wingefors

Founded

2011

Public Company

Public (OMX: EMBRAC B)

Private (subsidiary of Eruditus)

EMERITUS

Founder

Ashwin Damera, Chaitanya Kalipatnapu

Founded

2015

$40 million

ENDEL

Founder

Oleg Stavitsky & 3 others

Founded

2018

$8M+

ENDOWUS

Founder

Samuel Rhee & 2 others

Founded

2017

$130 million+

ENPHASE ENERGY

Founder

Raghu Belur and Martin Fornage

Founded

2006

$120 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: ENPH)

Private ($31.5B valuation as of 2023 Disney investment)

EPIC GAMES

Founder

Tim Sweeney

Founded

1991

$6.4 billion

EQUINOX

Founder

Harvey Spevak (CEO), Vito Errico (original)

Founded

1991

$1.8 billion (total debt and equity)

Private — valued at $3.2B

ERUDITUS

Founder

Ashwin Damera, Chaitanya Kalipatnapu

Founded

2010

$800 million

ESPERANTO TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Dave Ditzel

Founded

2014

$133 Million

ESSENTIAL AI

Founder

Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar

Founded

2023

$56.5 million

ETCHED

Founder

Gavin Uberti & 2 others

Founded

2022

$125 million+

ETSY

Founder

Rob Kalin & 3 others

Founded

2005

$97.3 million

Public (NASDAQ: ETSY)

EVENUP

Founder

Raymond Shu, Rami Maalouf

Founded

2019

$235 million

EVERLAW

Founder

AJ Shankar

Founded

2010

$135 million

Public (NASDAQ: EVO, FRA: EVT)

EVOTEC

Founder

Karsten Henco

Founded

1993

~$1.5 billion (public equity offerings since 1999 IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: EXAS) — market cap approximately $12 billion. Revenue exceeds $2.5 billion annually.

EXACT SCIENCES

Founder

Stanley Lapidus

Founded

1995

$IPO in 2001

EXSCIENTIA

Founder

Andrew Hopkins

Founded

2012

~$1.1B

Acquired by Recursion Pharmaceuticals (2025)

Private — parent company TechStyle Fashion Group

FABLETICS

Founder

Adam Goldenberg & 2 others

Founded

2013

$500 million

Private ($12.4B peak valuation)

FAIRE

Founder

Max Rhodes & 3 others

Founded

2017

$1.29B+

FAIRMONEY

Founder

Laurin Hainy

Founded

2017

$90 million+

FANATICS

Founder

Michael Rubin

Founded

1995

$4.3 billion

Market leader in US online sports betting — #1 by revenue in most months since 2022

FANDUEL

Founder

Nigel Eccles & 4 others

Founded

2009

Part of Flutter Entertainment (LSE: FLTR)

Active — serving 150+ enterprise customers globally including FedEx, DHL, Walmart

FAREYE

Founder

Kushal Nahata & 2 others

Founded

2013

$150M raised

Private (valued at $3.9B)

FARMERS BUSINESS NETWORK

Founder

Charles Baron, Amol Deshpande

Founded

2014

$900 million+

AgriTech

FARMWISE

Founder

Sebastien Boyer, Thomas Palomares

Founded

2016

$45M raised

Acquired by CNH Industrial (2023) — operating as part of CNH's precision agriculture division

RIPFintech

FAST

Founder

Domm Holland, Allison Barr Allen

Founded

2019

$124.5 million

Shut down (2022)

FAWRY

Founder

Ashraf Sabry

Founded

2008

$100 million (2019 IPO)

Public (EGX: FWRY)

FI

Founder

Sujith Narayanan, Sumit Gwalani

Founded

2019

$101 million

Design

FIGMA

Founder

Dylan Field, Evan Wallace

Founded

2012

$332 million

Acquired by Adobe ($20B)

Private — valued at approximately $3.2 billion

FIGURE

Founder

Mike Cagney

Founded

2018

$420M

FIGURE AI

Founder

Brett Adcock

Founded

2022

$754 million

FILECOIN

Founder

Juan Benet

Founded

2017

$258 million

FIREWORK

Founder

Vincent Yang, Jerry Luk

Founded

2018

$235 million

FIREWORKS AI

Founder

Lin Qiao & 2 others

Founded

2022

$327 million

FIRST LIGHT FUSION

Founder

Nick Hawker, Yiannis Ventikos

Founded

2011

$90M+ raised (as of 2023)

Acquired by Google ($2.1B, 2021)

FITBIT

Founder

James Park, Eric Friedman

Founded

2007

$66 million (pre-IPO)

FIVE9

Founder

Alec Miloslavsky

Founded

2001

$70 million (2014 IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: FIVN)

FIVETRAN

Founder

George Fraser, Taylor Brown

Founded

2012

$730 million

Active — one of Thailand's largest domestic logistics companies

FLASH EXPRESS

Founder

Komsan Lee

Founded

2018

$530M raised

Private — Restructuring after layoffs

FLEXPORT

Founder

Ryan Petersen

Founded

2013

$2.3 Billion

Private (Walmart subsidiary)

FLIPKART

Founder

Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal

Founded

2007

$12.6B+

FLUTTERWAVE

Founder

Olugbenga Agboola, Iyin Aboyeji

Founded

2016

$474 million

Active and profitable — strong in the developer community for latency-sensitive apps

FLY.IO

Founder

Kurt Mackey, Jerome Gravel-Niquet

Founded

2017

$43M raised

FLYR

Founder

Alex Mans

Founded

2013

$300 million

FORETHOUGHT

Founder

Deon Nicholas & Sami Ghoche

Founded

2017

$92 million

Private (valued at $1.2B+ as of 2022)

Climate Tech

FORM ENERGY

Founder

Mateo Jaramillo & 4 others

Founded

2017

$925 million

FOUND HEALTH

Founder

Sarah Jones Simmer

Founded

2020

$130M

FOURKITES

Founder

Mathew Elenjickal

Founded

2014

$300 million

Private (valued at $350M+ as of 2024)

FRAMER

Founder

Koen Bok, Jorn van Dijk

Founded

2014

$75 million

FRONT

Founder

Mathilde Collin & Laurent Perrin

Founded

2013

$200 million

RIPCrypto

FTX

Founder

Sam Bankman-Fried

Founded

2019

$1.8 billion

Bankrupt (Nov 2022)

FULLSTORY

Founder

Scott Voigt & 2 others

Founded

2014

~$165 million

FUNDING SOCIETIES

Founder

Kelvin Teo, Reynold Wijaya

Founded

2015

$294 million

Private ($1B+ AUM platform)

FUNDRISE

Founder

Ben Miller, Dan Miller

Founded

2012

$300 million+

FUNGIBLE

Founder

Pradeep Sindhu, Bertrand Serlet

Founded

2015

$300 million

Acquired by Microsoft (2023)

FUTURE

Founder

Rishi Mandal, Vipul Bindra

Founded

2017

$75 million

GAMMA

Founder

Grant Lee & 2 others

Founded

2020

$20 million

GATHER

Founder

Phillip Wang & 3 others

Founded

2020

$77 million

GATIK

Founder

Gautam Narang & 2 others

Founded

2017

$121 million

Private (Globe Telecom subsidiary)

GCASH

Founder

Globe Telecom (corporate venture)

Founded

2004

$575 million

GECKO ROBOTICS

Founder

Jake Loosararian & Troy Demmer

Founded

2016

$321 million

GEM

Founder

Steve Bartel, Nick Bushak

Founded

2017

Undisclosed

Crypto Exchange

GEMINI

Founder

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss

Founded

2014

$400 million

Private — building a demonstration plant at Culham Science Centre, UK (targeted for late 2020s)

GENERAL FUSION

Founder

Michel Laberge

Founded

2002

$300M+

GENESYS

Founder

Gregory Shenkman, Alec Miloslavsky

Founded

1990

$580 million (2021 round)

GETAROUND

Founder

Sam Zaid & 2 others

Founded

2009

$600 million

Public (NYSE: GETR)

Services Tech

GETAWAY HOUSE

Founder

Jon Staff, Pete Davis

Founded

2015

$60 million

Collapsed (exited all markets except Turkey, massive layoffs)

RIPE-commerce

GETIR

Founder

Nazim Salur

Founded

2015

$1.8 billion

Media Tech

GHOST

Founder

John O'Nolan, Hannah Wolfe

Founded

2013

Non-profit, ~$6M initial Kickstarter + revenue-funded

Active — 3M+ websites, non-profit foundation, fully profitable

Merged with Headspace (2021) — now Headspace

GINGER

Founder

Anmol Madan & 3 others

Founded

2011

$220 Million

Biotech

GINKGO BIOWORKS

Founder

Tom Knight & 4 others

Founded

2008

$2.8B

Public (NYSE: DNA) — market cap approximately $1 billion (down from $24 billion at SPAC peak)

Acquired by Microsoft (2018) for $7.5 billion

GITHUB

Founder

Tom Preston-Werner & 2 others

Founded

2008

$350 million (pre-acquisition)

Public (NASDAQ: GTLB) — market cap ~$8 billion

GITLAB

Founder

Sid Sijbrandij & Dmitriy Zaporozhets

Founded

2011

$426 million

GITPOD

Founder

Sven Efftinge & 2 others

Founded

2020

$80 million

GLADLY

Founder

Joseph Ansanelli & 2 others

Founded

2014

$208 million

Acquired by Recruit Holdings ($1.2B)

GLASSDOOR

Founder

Robert Hohman & 2 others

Founded

2007

$204 million

GLEAN

Founder

Arvind Jain & 3 others

Founded

2019

$1.8 billion

GLIDE

Founder

David Siegel, Jason Smith

Founded

2018

$24 million

Private — valued at $1.8 billion (2021, likely lower)

GLOSSIER

Founder

Emily Weiss

Founded

2014

$266 million

GOAT

Founder

Eddy Lu, Daishin Sugano

Founded

2015

$595.8 million

GOCARDLESS

Founder

Hiroki Takeuchi & 2 others

Founded

2011

$871 million

GOGOX

Founder

Steven Lam & 2 others

Founded

2013

$250 million

Public (HKEX: 2150)

Acquired by Acorns (2023)

GOHENRY

Founder

Louise Hill, Dean Brauer

Founded

2012

$46.4 million

GONG

Founder

Amit Bendov, Eilon Reshef

Founded

2015

$584 million

Private — Restructuring after massive layoffs

GOPUFF

Founder

Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir Gola

Founded

2013

$3.4 Billion

Acquired by Getir in 2022 for approximately $1.2 billion — but Getir itself collapsed in 2024, making the acquisition value essentially zero

GORILLAS

Founder

Kagan Sümer, Jörg Kattner

Founded

2020

$1.3B

Public (IDX: GOTO) — market cap ~$4 billion (down from $30B+ peak)

GOTO

Founder

Andre Soelistyo & Patrick Cao

Founded

2021

$6 billion (combined)

GRAB

Founder

Anthony Tan, Tan Hooi Ling

Founded

2012

$12 billion

Public (NASDAQ: GRAB)

DevOps / Open Source

GRAFANA LABS

Founder

Raj Dutt & 2 others

Founded

2014

$450 million

Private ($6B valuation)

Independent (after EU forced Illumina divestiture, completed 2024)

GRAIL

Founder

Jeff Huber (with backing from Illumina)

Founded

2016

$3.5B raised

GRAIN

Founder

Mike Adams

Founded

2020

$20 million

Private — facing significant challenges. Reported to be exploring strategic options including a potential sale. Revenue has been well below what $710M in funding would suggest.

AI / SaaS

GRAMMARLY

Founder

Alex Shevchenko & 2 others

Founded

2009

$400 million

Private ($13B valuation)

AI Hardware

GRAPHCORE

Founder

Nigel Toon, Simon Knowles

Founded

2016

$710M

GREENHOUSE

Founder

Daniel Chait, Jon Stross

Founded

2012

$110 million

Private — $2.3B valuation

GREENLIGHT

Founder

Tim Sheehan, Johnson Cook

Founded

2014

$573 million

GROQ

Founder

Jonathan Ross

Founded

2016

$1.09 billion

GROW THERAPY

Founder

Jake Cooper

Founded

2020

$175M+

GROWW

Founder

Lalit Keshre & 3 others

Founded

2016

$393 million

Private (Unicorn)

Creator Economy

GUMROAD

Founder

Sahil Lavingia

Founded

2011

$10.4 million

Private ($9.5B valuation)

GUSTO

Founder

Josh Reeves & 2 others

Founded

2011

$746 million

H2O.AI

Founder

Sri Ambati

Founded

2012

$250 million

HADRIAN

Founder

Chris Power

Founded

2020

$214 Million

Private ($3.5B valuation)

HANDSHAKE

Founder

Garrett Lord & 2 others

Founded

2014

$400 million+

HARVEY AI

Founder

Winston Weinberg, Gabriel Pereyra

Founded

2022

$206 million

Public (NASDAQ: HCP) — being acquired by IBM for $6.4 billion

Cloud Infrastructure

HASHICORP

Founder

Mitchell Hashimoto & Armon Dadgar

Founded

2012

$350 million

HAWKEYE 360

Founder

John Serafini, Chris DeMay

Founded

2015

$244 million

Private (merged with Ginger, 2021)

HEADSPACE

Founder

Andy Puddicombe, Rich Pierson

Founded

2010

$215 million

Private ($2.3B valuation)

HEADWAY

Founder

Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman

Founded

2019

$226 million

Acquired by Contentsquare (2023)

HEAP

Founder

Matin Movassate, Ravi Parikh

Founded

2013

~$199 million

HEIGHT

Founder

Michael Villar

Founded

2019

$8 million

Climate Tech

HEIRLOOM CARBON

Founder

Shashank Samala

Founded

2020

$183 million

Private — Building 7th prototype (Polaris)

HELION ENERGY

Founder

David Kirtley

Founded

2013

$577 Million

HELP SCOUT

Founder

Nick Francis & 2 others

Founded

2011

$14.1 million

HERMEUS

Founder

AJ Piplica & 3 others

Founded

2018

$175 million

HEX

Founder

Barry McCardel & 2 others

Founded

2019

$97 million

HEYGEN

Founder

Joshua Xu, Wayne Liang

Founded

2020

$74 million

HIBOB

Founder

Ronni Zehavi

Founded

2015

$574 million

HIMS & HERS

Founder

Andrew Dudum

Founded

2017

$197 million

Public (NYSE: HIMS)

Private — valued at $6.2 billion (2021)

HINGE HEALTH

Founder

Daniel Perez & Gabriel Mecklenburg

Founded

2015

$1.1 billion

HIPPO INSURANCE

Founder

Assaf Wand, Eyal Navon

Founded

2015

$709 million

Public (NYSE: HIPO)

HIPPOCRATIC AI

Founder

Munjal Shah

Founded

2023

$278 million

HOPPER

Founder

Frederic Lalonde

Founded

2007

$724 million

HOSTELWORLD

Founder

Tom Kennedy, Ray Nolan

Founded

1999

$50 million (IPO)

Public (LSE: HSW)

HOUSECALL PRO

Founder

Ian Heidt, Roland Ligtenberg

Founded

2013

$147 million

Private ($4.5B valuation)

HUGGING FACE

Founder

Clément Delangue & 2 others

Founded

2016

$395 million

HYDROW

Founder

Bruce Smith

Founded

2017

$200 million+

ICON

Founder

Jason Ballard

Founded

2017

$451 million

ICON

Founder

Jason Ballard & 2 others

Founded

2017

Undisclosed hundreds of millions from private backers

Private — subsidiary of Movile/Prosus. Dominant in Brazil with 80%+ market share

Food Delivery

IFOOD

Founder

Felipe Fioravante & 3 others

Founded

2011

$750M+

Biotech

ILLUMINA

Founder

David Walt & 4 others

Founded

1998

$IPO in 2000

Public (NASDAQ: ILMN) — market cap approximately $20 billion

ILLUMIO

Founder

Andrew Rubin, PJ Kirner

Founded

2013

$557 million

Active — IMX token trading on major exchanges

Crypto / DeFi

IMMUTABLE

Founder

Robbie Ferguson & James Ferguson

Founded

2018

$300 million

Private — Raised $2B+, IPO delayed

IMPOSSIBLE FOODS

Founder

Patrick O. Brown

Founded

2011

$2 Billion+

IMPRINT

Founder

Daragh Murphy & 2 others

Founded

2020

$225 million

AgTech

INDIGO AGRICULTURE

Founder

David Perry, Geoffrey von Maltzahn

Founded

2014

$1.2 billion

Insolvent (2023) — ceased operations across most markets, some assets sold

RIPAgriTech

INFARM

Founder

Osnat Michaeli & 2 others

Founded

2013

$604M raised

INFLECTION AI

Founder

Mustafa Suleyman & 2 others

Founded

2022

$1.525 billion

Restructured (2024)

INFLUXDATA

Founder

Paul Dix

Founded

2012

$175 million

Private (ConsenSys subsidiary)

INFURA

Founder

E.G. Galano, Michael Godsey

Founded

2016

$200 million (via ConsenSys)

INNOVIZ TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Omer Keilaf & 3 others

Founded

2016

$371 million

Public (NASDAQ: INVZ)

INSILICO MEDICINE

Founder

Alex Zhavoronkov

Founded

2014

$407 million

Delivery

INSTACART

Founder

Apoorva Mehta & 2 others

Founded

2012

$2.9 billion

Public (NASDAQ: CART)

INTER

Founder

Rubens Menin

Founded

2015

Public Company

Public (NASDAQ: INTR)

Acquisition by Salesforce pending ($3.6B)

INTERCOM

Founder

Eoghan McCabe & 3 others

Founded

2011

$240 million

INTERNAL

Founder

Arisa Amano, Bob Remeika

Founded

2020

$16 million

INVIDEO

Founder

Sanket Shah & 2 others

Founded

2017

$52.5 million

IONQ

Founder

Chris Monroe & Jungsang Kim

Founded

2015

$834 million

Public (NYSE: IONQ)

RIPSocial Media

IRL

Founder

Abraham Shafi

Founded

2017

$200 million

Shut down (2023)

IRONCLAD

Founder

Jason Boehmig, Cai GoGwilt

Founded

2014

$334 million

IXIGO

Founder

Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar

Founded

2007

$156 million

Public (NSE: IXIGO)

Private — Expanded to 13 countries

J&T EXPRESS

Founder

Jet Lee (Li Jie)

Founded

2015

$5.5 Billion+

JASPER

Founder

Dave Rogenmoser & 2 others

Founded

2021

$131 million

RIPConsumer Electronics

JAWBONE

Founder

Hosain Rahman

Founded

1999

$930 million

Liquidated (2017)

JELLYSMACK

Founder

Michael Philippe & 2 others

Founded

2016

$490M+

JERRY

Founder

Art Agrawal

Founded

2017

$192 million

JOBBER

Founder

Sam Pillar, Forrest Zeisler

Founded

2011

$285 million

JOBY AVIATION

Founder

JoeBen Bevirt

Founded

2009

$2 Billion+

Public (NYSE: JOBY)

RIPConsumer Electronics

JUICERO

Founder

Doug Evans

Founded

2013

$120 million

Shut down (2017)

JUMIA

Founder

Jeremy Hodara, Sacha Poignonnec

Founded

2012

$800 million+

Public (NYSE: JMIA)

Private (Great Hill Partners)

JUMIO

Founder

Daniel Mattes

Founded

2010

$284M+

JUPITER

Founder

Jitendra Gupta

Founded

2019

$86 million

Private (JUP token, DAO-governed)

JUPITER

Founder

Meow (pseudonymous)

Founded

2021

$35M strategic raise in 2026, bootstrapped before that

JURO

Founder

Richard Mabey, Pavel Kovalevich

Founded

2016

$28 million

JUSTCALL

Founder

Gaurav Sharma

Founded

2016

$73.2 million

Public (Oslo Stock Exchange: KAHOT)

KAHOOT!

Founder

Johan Brand & 2 others

Founded

2012

$400 Million+

KAIA HEALTH

Founder

Konstantin Mehl and Manuel Thurner

Founded

2016

$125 million

Creator Economy

KAJABI

Founder

Kenny Rueter & Travis Rosser

Founded

2010

$550 million

Public (KRX: 323410) — market cap approximately $18 billion at IPO peak, now ~$12 billion

KAKAOBANK

Founder

Yun Ho-young

Founded

2016

$2.5B (IPO)

KAPWING

Founder

Julia Enthoven, Eric Lu

Founded

2017

$12.7 million

RIPConstruction Tech

KATERRA

Founder

Michael Marks, Fritz Wolff

Founded

2015

$2 billion

Bankrupt (2021)

Private — valued at $8.7 billion (2021, likely significantly lower)

KAVAK

Founder

Carlos Garcia Ottati

Founded

2016

$2.4 billion

Subsidiary of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)

KAYAK

Founder

Steve Hafner, Paul English

Founded

2004

$224 million

KIN INSURANCE

Founder

Sean Harper, Lucas Ward

Founded

2016

$265 million

KIWI.COM

Founder

Oliver Dlouhy

Founded

2012

$150 million

KIWIBOT

Founder

Felipe Chavez Cortes

Founded

2017

$20 million

KLARNA

Founder

Sebastian Siemiatkowski

Founded

2005

$4.6 Billion

Public (NYSE: KLAR)

KLAVIYO

Founder

Andrew Bialecki & Ed Hallen

Founded

2012

$778 million

Public (NYSE: KVYO)

Acquired by Medium (2021)

KNOWABLE

Founder

Warren Shaeffer and Alex Benzer

Founded

2019

$4 million

KODIAK ROBOTICS

Founder

Don Burnette, Paz Eshel

Founded

2018

$250 million

KONFIO

Founder

David Arana and Francisco Padilla

Founded

2013

Over $800 million (equity and debt)

KONG

Founder

Augusto Marietti, Marco Palladino

Founded

2009

$345 million

Public (KRX: 259960) — market cap approximately $15 billion

KRAFTON

Founder

Chang Byung-gyu

Founded

2007

$IPO in 2021

Crypto Exchange

KRAKEN

Founder

Jesse Powell

Founded

2011

$113 million

KRATOS DEFENSE

Founder

Eric DeMarco (CEO and architect of modern Kratos)

Founded

1994

Publicly listed (NASDAQ: KTOS); equity-funded through public markets

Public (NASDAQ: KTOS)

KREDIVO

Founder

Akshay Garg

Founded

2016

Over $400 million (equity and debt)

KUDA

Founder

Babs Ogundeyi, Musty Mustapha

Founded

2019

$80 million+

LABEL STUDIO

Founder

Nikolai Liubimov & 2 others

Founded

2019

$30 million

LABELBOX

Founder

Manu Sharma & 2 others

Founded

2018

$188 million

LACEWORK

Founder

Sanjay Kalra, Vikram Kapoor

Founded

2015

$1.8 billion

Private — Operating in 11+ markets

LALAMOVE

Founder

Chow Shing-yuk

Founded

2013

$1.5 Billion+

LAMBDA CLOUD

Founder

Stephen Balaban and Michael Balaban

Founded

2012

Over $2.3 billion

Effectively shut down. Rebranded to BloomTech in 2022, then largely wound down operations. The ISA model and the company are considered cautionary tales.

LAMBDA SCHOOL

Founder

Austen Allred, Ben Nelson

Founded

2017

$130M

LANDED

Founder

Alex Lofton & 2 others

Founded

2015

$49 million

LANDR

Founder

Pascal Pilon, Justin Evans

Founded

2012

$100M+

LANGCHAIN

Founder

Harrison Chase, Ankush Gola

Founded

2022

$260 million

Private (ByteDance subsidiary)

LARK

Founder

ByteDance (Zhang Yiming)

Founded

2016

Internally funded by ByteDance

LATER

Founder

Matt Smith & Roger Parks

Founded

2014

$100M+

Private — valued at $3 billion (2022)

LATTICE

Founder

Jack Altman

Founded

2016

$329 million

LAUNCHDARKLY

Founder

Edith Harbaugh, John Kodumal

Founded

2014

$330 million

Private — valued at $3B

Private — subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Second-largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia behind Shopee

LAZADA

Founder

Maximilian Bittner (Rocket Internet)

Founded

2012

$4.5B+ (from Alibaba)

LEAPSOME

Founder

Kajetan von Armansperg and Jenny von Podewils

Founded

2016

$60 million

LEGALZOOM

Founder

Brian Liu & 3 others

Founded

2001

$735 million

Public (NASDAQ: LZ)

Active — growing in the US, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Subject to same political risks as TikTok.

LEMON8

Founder

ByteDance (Zhang Yiming)

Founded

2020

Internal (ByteDance funded)

Insurtech

LEMONADE

Founder

Daniel Schreiber & Shai Wininger

Founded

2015

$480 million

Public (NYSE: LMND) — market cap ~$2 billion

Public (NYSE: LC) — market cap approximately $1.5 billion

LENDINGCLUB

Founder

Renaud Laplanche

Founded

2006

$1.3B

LEVEL AI

Founder

Ashish Nagar

Founded

2019

$73.1 million

LEVELS HEALTH

Founder

Josh Clemente & 4 others

Founded

2019

$75 million

LEVER

Founder

Sarah Nahm & 2 others

Founded

2012

$122 million

Acquired by Employ Inc.

LEX

Founder

Nathan Baschez

Founded

2022

$2.75 million

Decentralized protocol (LDO token on major exchanges)

LI-CYCLE

Founder

Ajay Kochhar, Tim Johnston

Founded

2016

$700 million

Public (NYSE: LICY)

DeFi

LIDO FINANCE

Founder

Konstantin Lomashuk & 2 others

Founded

2020

$73 million

AI Hardware

LIGHTMATTER

Founder

Nicholas Harris & 2 others

Founded

2017

$420M

Private — valued at approximately $4.4 billion after latest round

LILI

Founder

Lilac Bar David and Liran Zelkha

Founded

2018

$80 million

Private — First profitable year in 2023

LIME

Founder

Toby Sun and Brad Bao

Founded

2017

$1.1 Billion

Private (valued at $400M+ as of 2022)

LINEAR

Founder

Karri Saarinen & 2 others

Founded

2019

$52 million

LIQUID AI

Founder

Ramin Hasani & 3 others

Founded

2023

$250 million

Private ($1.4B valuation)

Consumer Goods

LIQUID DEATH

Founder

Mike Cessario

Founded

2019

$195M+

LIVECHAT

Founder

Mariusz Cieply & 2 others

Founded

2002

Bootstrapped (IPO 2014, Warsaw Stock Exchange)

Public (WSE: LVC)

LIVESCALE

Founder

Virgile Ollivier

Founded

2017

$8 million

Acquired by Teladoc Health ($18.5B all-stock deal, August 2020)

LIVONGO

Founder

Glen Tullman, Lee Shapiro

Founded

2014

$235M raised pre-IPO

LLAMAINDEX

Founder

Jerry Liu, Simon Suo

Founded

2023

$27.5 million

Active — serving 100+ enterprise customers across 30+ countries

LOCUS

Founder

Nishith Rastogi, Geet Garg

Founded

2015

$133M raised

LOFT

Founder

Mate Pencz, Florian Hagenbuch

Founded

2018

$700 million

SaaS / Video Communication

LOOM

Founder

Joe Thomas & 2 others

Founded

2015

$203 million

Acquired by Atlassian ($975M, 2023)

RIPElectric Vehicles

LORDSTOWN MOTORS

Founder

Steve Burns

Founded

2018

$675 million

Bankrupt (2023)

Public (OTC: LKNCY) — 20,000+ locations in China, larger than Starbucks globally

LUCID MOTORS

Founder

Peter Rawlinson

Founded

2007

$9 billion+

Public (NASDAQ: LCID)

Consumer

LUCKIN COFFEE

Founder

Jenny Qian Zhiya, Charles Lu Zhengyao

Founded

2017

$862M raised pre-IPO

LUMINANCE

Founder

Emily Foges

Founded

2015

$40 million

LUMINAR TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Austin Russell

Founded

2012

$750 million+

Public (NASDAQ: LAZR)

Active — 600,000+ customers across Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

LUNAR

Founder

Ken Villum Klausen

Founded

2015

$530M raised

LUNAR ENERGY

Founder

Kunal Girotra

Founded

2020

$300 million

LYFT

Founder

Logan Green, John Zimmer

Founded

2012

$5.1 billion

Public (NASDAQ: LYFT)

LYRA HEALTH

Founder

David Ebersman

Founded

2015

$910M+

Private (Series F)

Operational under Safaricom (Nairobi Stock Exchange: SCOM) — 50+ million active users across Africa

M-PESA

Founder

Nick Hughes, Susie Lonie (Vodafone/Safaricom)

Founded

2007

Internal (Vodafone/Safaricom funded)

MAGENTO

Founder

Roy Rubin, Yoav Kutner

Founded

2007

$1.86 billion (combined acquisitions)

Acquired by Adobe (2018)

MAGIC AI

Founder

Eric Steinberger and Sebastian De Ro

Founded

2022

$465 million

Private (pivoted to enterprise)

AR/VR

MAGIC LEAP

Founder

Rony Abovitz

Founded

2010

$3.5B+

MAKE

Founder

Ondřej Gazda & 3 others

Founded

2012

$82 million

Decentralized protocol (MKR/SKY tokens on major exchanges)

MAKEMYTRIP

Founder

Deep Kalra

Founded

2000

$650 million

Public (NASDAQ: MMYT)

DeFi

MAKERDAO

Founder

Rune Christensen

Founded

2014

$54.5 million (equity) + protocol treasury

MALTA INC

Founder

Ramya Swaminathan

Founded

2018

$78 million

MANTRA HEALTH

Founder

Ed Gaussen & 2 others

Founded

2018

$32M+

Private (Series A)

Private — valued at $1.9 billion (2021)

MAPBOX

Founder

Eric Gundersen

Founded

2010

$400 million

MARQETA

Founder

Jason Gardner

Founded

2010

$1.4 billion

Public (NASDAQ: MQ)

MARSHMALLOW

Founder

Oliver Kent-Braham, Alexander Kent-Braham

Founded

2017

$100 million

MARVEL FUSION

Founder

Moritz von der Linden & 3 others

Founded

2019

$60M+ raised (as of 2023)

MASTERCLASS

Founder

David Rogier and Aaron Rasmussen

Founded

2015

$461 Million

Active — 10M+ registered accounts, ~1-2M monthly active users

MASTODON

Founder

Eugen Rochko

Founded

2016

Non-profit, minimal funding

MATERIAL SECURITY

Founder

Ryan Noon, Abhishek Agrawal

Founded

2017

$155 million

MATTER

Founder

Ben Springwater and Robert Mackenzie

Founded

2019

$9.15 million

MATTERPORT

Founder

Matt Bell, Dave Gausebeck

Founded

2011

$640 million

Public (Nasdaq: MTTR)

MAVEN

Founder

Gagan Biyani, Wes Kao

Founded

2020

~$25 million

Private (Acquired by Advent International, 2023)

MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

John MacDonald & 4 others

Founded

1969

Acquired by Advent International for $6.4 billion (2023)

MAYA

Founder

Orlando Vea

Founded

2013

$712 million

MEDALLION

Founder

Derek Lo

Founded

2020

$85 million

MEESHO

Founder

Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal

Founded

2015

$1.1 billion

MEILISEARCH

Founder

Thomas Payet & 2 others

Founded

2018

$15 million

MELIO

Founder

Matan Bar & 2 others

Founded

2018

$500 million

Acquired by Xero (2025)

MEOW

Founder

Brandon Arvanaghi

Founded

2021

$22 million

MERCADO LIBRE

Founder

Marcos Galperin

Founded

1999

$1.15 billion

Public (NASDAQ: MELI)

MERCURY

Founder

Immad Akhund

Founded

2017

$163 million

Acquired by Lemonade (2022)

METROMILE

Founder

David Friedberg and Steve Pretre

Founded

2011

$293 million

MIDJOURNEY

Founder

David Holz

Founded

2021

Bootstrapped

MIGHTY BUILDINGS

Founder

Slava Solonitsyn & 3 others

Founded

2017

$150 million

MIGHTY NETWORKS

Founder

Gina Bianchini

Founded

2017

~$50 million

Private — extremely profitable. Renamed to HoYoverse for global branding

MIHOYO

Founder

Cai Haoyu & 2 others

Founded

2011

Self-funded (profitable from early games)

MILVUS

Founder

Charles Xie, Xiaofan Luan

Founded

2019

$113 million (Zilliz)

Private (backed by Zilliz)

Private (owned by Vista Equity Partners)

MINDBODY

Founder

Rick Stollmeyer, Blake Beltram

Founded

2001

$265 million (pre-IPO)

MINIO

Founder

Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Garima Kapoor

Founded

2014

$126 million

Private ($17.5B valuation)

SaaS / Collaboration

MIRO

Founder

Andrey Khusid, Oleg Shardin

Founded

2011

$476 million

Acquired by Lululemon (2020). Device discontinued 2023.

MIRROR

Founder

Brynn Putnam

Founded

2016

$72 million

MISTRAL AI

Founder

Arthur Mensch & 2 others

Founded

2023

$1.1 billion

MIXPANEL

Founder

Suhail Doshi, Tim Trefren

Founded

2009

$277 million

MOBILEYE

Founder

Amnon Shashua, Ziv Aviram

Founded

1999

$1 billion+ (via Intel acquisition and IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: MBLY)

Active — growing rapidly as a serverless AI compute platform

MODAL

Founder

Erik Bernhardsson (founder), with Eric Meijer

Founded

2021

$67M raised

MODERN TREASURY

Founder

Dimitri Dadiomov & 2 others

Founded

2018

$183 million

MODERNA

Founder

Noubar Afeyan & 2 others

Founded

2010

$3.2 billion (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: MRNA)

MODULAR

Founder

Chris Lattner, Tim Davis

Founded

2022

$380 million

MOLLIE

Founder

Adriaan Mol

Founded

2004

$867M

MONDAY.COM

Founder

Roy Mann, Eran Zinman

Founded

2012

$1.5 billion

Public (NASDAQ: MNDY)

Public (NYSE: ML) — market cap ~$1 billion

MONEYLION

Founder

Dee Choubey

Founded

2013

$690 million

MONGODB

Founder

Dwight Merriman & 2 others

Founded

2007

$311M (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: MDB)

MONZO

Founder

Tom Blomfield & 4 others

Founded

2015

$1.6 billion

Active — operating in 14 cities across Africa, Asia, and Middle East

MOOVE

Founder

Ladi Delano, Jide Odunsi

Founded

2019

$210M raised

MORALIS

Founder

Ivan Liljeqvist and Filip Martinsson

Founded

2021

$53 million

Private (Hyundai-Aptiv JV)

MOTIONAL

Founder

Karl Iagnemma

Founded

2020

$4 billion (JV investment)

RIPEntertainment Tech

MOVIEPASS

Founder

Stacy Spikes, Hamet Watt

Founded

2011

$68 million

Shut down (2020)

MUBERT

Founder

Alexander Zavoloka

Founded

2016

$6M+

MULTIPLIER

Founder

Sagar Khatri

Founded

2020

$93 million

MURAL

Founder

Mariano Suarez-Battan & 3 others

Founded

2011

$199 million

MUTINY

Founder

Jaleh Rezaei, Nikhil Mathew

Founded

2018

$72 million

Private (owned by Francisco Partners)

MYFITNESSPAL

Founder

Mike Lee, Albert Lee

Founded

2005

Bootstrapped (acquired for $475M)

N26

Founder

Valentin Stalf, Maximilian Tayenthal

Founded

2013

$1.7 billion

N8N

Founder

Jan Oberhauser

Founded

2019

$52 million

NABLA

Founder

Alexandre Lebrun & 3 others

Founded

2018

Around $120 million

NANSEN

Founder

Alex Svanevik & 2 others

Founded

2020

$87 million

Public (NASDAQ: NTRA) — growing rapidly, oncology becoming the dominant revenue driver

NATERA

Founder

Matt Rabinowitz, Jonathan Sheena

Founded

2004

Public (NASDAQ: NTRA)

Private — $9.2B valuation

NAVAN (TRIPACTIONS)

Founder

Ariel Cohen, Ilan Twig

Founded

2015

$1.4 billion

NAVI TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Sachin Bansal

Founded

2018

$585 million

NCINO

Founder

Pierre Naude

Founded

2012

$214 million

Public (NASDAQ: NCNO)

Blockchain

NEAR PROTOCOL

Founder

Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov

Founded

2018

$530 million

NEBIUS

Founder

Arkady Volozh

Founded

2024

$3+ billion

Public (NASDAQ: NBIS)

Active — one of the fastest-growing serverless Postgres platforms

NEON

Founder

Nikita Shamgunov

Founded

2021

$129M raised

NEON

Founder

Pedro Conrade

Founded

2016

$400 million

NETLIFY

Founder

Mathias Biilmann, Christian Bach

Founded

2014

$212 million

NETSKOPE

Founder

Sanjay Beri

Founded

2012

$1.4 Billion

Private ($8.9B valuation)

Neurotech

NEURALINK

Founder

Elon Musk & 7 others

Founded

2016

$680 million

Taken private by Francisco Partners & TPG (2023) for $6.5B

NEW RELIC

Founder

Lew Cirne

Founded

2008

$214 million

Acquired by Munich Re (2025)

NEXT INSURANCE

Founder

Guy Goldstein & 2 others

Founded

2016

$1.1 billion

AR/VR

NIANTIC

Founder

John Hanke

Founded

2010

$770M+

Private ($8.7B peak valuation)

NINJA VAN

Founder

Lai Chang Wen & 2 others

Founded

2014

$979 million

NINJACART

Founder

Thirukumaran Nagarajan

Founded

2015

$250 million+

NIO

Founder

William Li

Founded

2014

$9 billion+

Public (NYSE: NIO)

NIUM

Founder

Prajit Nanu & 2 others

Founded

2014

$300 million

NOOM

Founder

Saeju Jeong, Artem Petakov

Founded

2008

$659 million

NORMATIVE

Founder

Kristian Rönn

Founded

2014

$27M

Bankruptcy (Chapter 11, filed November 2024)

NORTHVOLT

Founder

Peter Carlsson

Founded

2016

$15 billion (debt + equity)

Private (valued at $1.5B as of 2022)

NOTCO

Founder

Matias Muchnick & 2 others

Founded

2015

$435 million

NOTION

Founder

Ivan Zhao

Founded

2013

$343 Million

Private ($10B valuation)

NTWRK

Founder

Aaron Levant

Founded

2018

$65M+ across multiple rounds

NUBANK

Founder

David Vélez

Founded

2013

$2.3 Billion

Public (NYSE: NU)

Private ($8.6B valuation)

NURO

Founder

Dave Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu

Founded

2016

$2.1 billion

Acquired by Thirty Madison (2023)

NURX

Founder

Hans Gangeskar and Edvard Engesaeth

Founded

2015

$130M

Private (Advent International, 2024)

NUVEI

Founder

Philip Fayer

Founded

2003

$833M IPO (2020); taken private by Advent International for ~$6.3B (2024)

NUVIA

Founder

Gerard Williams III & 2 others

Founded

2019

$293 million

Acquired by Qualcomm (2021)

OAKNORTH

Founder

Rishi Khosla, Joel Patel

Founded

2015

$1 billion

Public (NASDAQ: OTLY) — Stock down 90%+ from peak

OATLY

Founder

Rickard Öste

Founded

1994

$200 Million (pre-IPO)

OBÉ FITNESS

Founder

Mark Mullett, Ashley Mills

Founded

2018

$30 million

OBSERVABLE

Founder

Mike Bostock

Founded

2019

$46 million

OBSERVABLE

Founder

Mike Bostock, Melody Meckfessel

Founded

2019

$45 million

OBSERVE.AI

Founder

Swapnil Jain & 3 others

Founded

2017

$214 million

Acquired by Revenio (2021)

OCULO

Founder

Jonathan Crowston and Kate Taylor

Founded

2015

Privately backed (acquired for A$18.5M)

Public (NYSE: OPAD) — market cap approximately $50 million (down from $3 billion at SPAC peak). Stock down 97%+.

OFFERPAD

Founder

Brian Bair

Founded

2015

$1.6B (IPO + debt)

Active — one of the largest virtual power plants in the US

OHMCONNECT

Founder

Matt Duesterberg, Curtis Tongue

Founded

2013

$180M raised

OKTA

Founder

Todd McKinnon & Frederic Kerrest

Founded

2009

$230 million

Public (NASDAQ: OKTA)

Ola Cabs: Private. Ola Electric: Public (NSE: OLAELEC)

OLA

Founder

Bhavish Aggarwal, Ankit Bhati

Founded

2010

$5B+

Public (NSE: OLAELEC) — market cap ~$5 billion

OLA ELECTRIC

Founder

Bhavish Aggarwal

Founded

2017

$920 million

RIPHealth Tech

OLIVE AI

Founder

Sean Lane

Founded

2012

$852 million

Shut down (November 2023)

OMADA HEALTH

Founder

Sean Duffy, Adrian James

Founded

2011

$255 million

OMNIPRESENT

Founder

Matthew Wilson, Guenther Klemisch

Founded

2019

$32 million

Consumer Goods

ONCE UPON A FARM

Founder

Cassandra Curtis & John Foraker

Founded

2015

$100M+

ONESPAN

Founder

T. Kendall Hunt

Founded

1991

Public since 1997 (NASDAQ: OSPN)

Public (NASDAQ: OSPN)

Acquired by Entrust (2024)

ONFIDO

Founder

Husayn Kassai & 2 others

Founded

2012

$210M+

OPENAI

Founder

Sam Altman

Founded

2015

$17.9 Billion

Private ($300B valuation)

OPENDOOR

Founder

Eric Wu & 3 others

Founded

2014

$1.9 billion

Public (Nasdaq: OPEN)

OPENEVIDENCE

Founder

Daniel Nadler

Founded

2021

Over $735 million

Private ($13.3B peak valuation)

OPENSEA

Founder

Devin Finzer & Alex Atallah

Founded

2017

$427M+

OPENSPACE

Founder

Jeevan Kalanithi

Founded

2017

$116 million

OPTIMISM

Founder

Jinglan Wang & 2 others

Founded

2019

$178 million

OPUS CLIP

Founder

Young Zhao & 2 others

Founded

2022

$50 million

Private — valued at approximately $1.8 billion

ORCA SECURITY

Founder

Avi Shua, Gil Geron

Founded

2019

$632M

OTTER.AI

Founder

Sam Liang, Yun Fu

Founded

2016

$63 million

OURA

Founder

Petri Lahtela & 2 others

Founded

2013

$348 million

Public (NYSE: OUST) — merged with Velodyne

OUSTER

Founder

Angus Pacala, Mark Frichtl

Founded

2015

$330 million

OUTREACH

Founder

Manny Medina

Founded

2014

$489 million

OUTSCHOOL

Founder

Amir Nathoo, Mikhail Seregine

Founded

2015

$230 million

OVERDRIVE

Founder

Steve Potash

Founded

1986

Bootstrapped (acquired by Rakuten for $410M in 2015)

Private (owned by KKR)

Hospitality

OYO ROOMS

Founder

Ritesh Agarwal

Founded

2013

$3.3B+

Private (IPO planned)

OYSTER HR

Founder

Tony Jamous

Founded

2020

$222 million

PACASO

Founder

Austin Allison, Spencer Rascoff

Founded

2020

$191 million

PACHAMA

Founder

Diego Saez-Gil, Tomas Aftalion

Founded

2018

$79 million

Data Analytics

PALANTIR

Founder

Peter Thiel & 4 others

Founded

2003

$3.4 billion

Public (NYSE: PLTR)

Enterprise Software

PANDADOC

Founder

Mikita Mikado, Serge Barysiuk

Founded

2013

$100 million

PAPAYA GLOBAL

Founder

Eynat Guez

Founded

2016

$440 million

PATHAI

Founder

Andy Beck, Aditya Khosla

Founded

2016

$350 million

Crowdfunding

PATREON

Founder

Jack Conte, Sam Yam

Founded

2013

$412 million

Private ($4B valuation)

PAYMOB

Founder

Islam Shawky & 2 others

Founded

2015

$90 million

PAYONEER

Founder

Yuval Tal

Founded

2005

$270 million

Public (NASDAQ: PAYO)

Acquired by Stripe (2020) for ~$200 million

PAYSTACK

Founder

Shola Akinlade & Ezra Olubi

Founded

2015

$10 million (pre-acquisition)

PAYTM

Founder

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Founded

2010

$4.7 billion

Public (BSE/NSE: PAYTM)

Public (NASDAQ: PTON) — market cap ~$2.5 billion (down from $50B peak)

PELOTON

Founder

John Foley

Founded

2012

$1.7 billion

PENDO

Founder

Todd Olson & 3 others

Founded

2013

$468 million

PEOPLE.AI

Founder

Oleg Rogynskyy

Founded

2016

$100 million

PERLEGO

Founder

Gauthier Van Malderen, Matthew Davis

Founded

2016

$80 million+

PERPLEXITY AI

Founder

Aravind Srinivas

Founded

2022

$900 Million

Private ($9B valuation)

PERSEFONI

Founder

Kentaro Kawamori, Johnny White

Founded

2020

$128 million

PERSONA

Founder

Rick Song, Charles Yeh

Founded

2018

$268 million

PERSONIO

Founder

Hanno Renner

Founded

2015

$723 million

Consumer Electronics

PETCUBE

Founder

Alex Neskin & 2 others

Founded

2012

$40 million

PETDESK

Founder

Taylor Caplan

Founded

2012

$130 million

RIPE-commerce

PETS.COM

Founder

Greg McLemore

Founded

1998

$110 million (IPO) + $82.5 million (VC)

Shut down (Nov 2000)

PHONEPE

Founder

Sameer Nigam & 2 others

Founded

2015

$3.5 billion

Acquired by Google (2022)

PHOTOMATH

Founder

Damir Sabol, Mario Klepic

Founded

2014

$29 million

PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE

Founder

Karol Hausman & 3 others

Founded

2024

$470 million

Private — Valued at $1.1B (unicorn)

PHYSICSWALLAH

Founder

Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari

Founded

2020

$210 Million

Public (Nasdaq First North: PTRACK)

PHYSITRACK

Founder

Henrik Molin and Will Agerholm

Founded

2012

$15 million

PICPAY

Founder

Anderson Chamon & 2 others

Founded

2012

$735 million

PICTORY

Founder

Vikram Chalana & 2 others

Founded

2019

$2.1 million

PIE INSURANCE

Founder

John Swigart and Dax Craig

Founded

2017

$621 million

Private — valued at $470 million (2024)

PIKA

Founder

Demi Guo & Chenlin Meng

Founded

2023

$135 million

PINE LABS

Founder

Lokvir Kapoor & 2 others

Founded

1998

$1.8 billion

PINECONE

Founder

Edo Liberty

Founded

2019

$138M

Founder

Ben Silbermann & 2 others

Founded

2010

$1.5 billion

Public (NYSE: PINS)

Private — valued at $2 billion (2022)

PIPE

Founder

Harry Hurst & Josh Mangel

Founded

2019

$314 million

PITCH

Founder

Christian Reber & 2 others

Founded

2018

$137 million

PLAID

Founder

Zach Perret, William Hockey

Founded

2013

$734 million

PLAN A

Founder

Lubomila Jordanova

Founded

2017

$29M+

Private — valued at $1.19 billion (2022)

PLANET LABS

Founder

Will Marshall & 2 others

Founded

2010

$600 Million+

Public (NYSE: PL)

Cloud Infrastructure

PLANETSCALE

Founder

Sam Lambert & Jess Rose

Founded

2018

$105 million

Acquired by Autodesk ($875M)

PLANGRID

Founder

Tracy Young & 3 others

Founded

2011

$69 million

AgTech

PLENTY

Founder

Nate Storey, Matt Barnard

Founded

2014

$941 million

PLEO

Founder

Jeppe Rindom, Niccolo Perra

Founded

2015

$430 million

Private (SPAC merger pending)

PLUS.AI

Founder

David Liu, Shawn Kerrigan

Founded

2016

$720 million

PODIA

Founder

Spencer Fry

Founded

2014

$8.5 million

POLYGON

Founder

Jaynti Kanani & 2 others

Founded

2017

$450 million

Public (NASDAQ: PONY) — went public in late 2024, valued at approximately $4.5 billion

Autonomous Driving

PONY.AI

Founder

James Peng, Tiancheng Lou

Founded

2016

$1.3B

POOLSIDE

Founder

Jason Warner and Eiso Kant

Founded

2023

$626 million

POPSHOP LIVE

Founder

Danielle Li

Founded

2019

$20 million

POSHMARK

Founder

Manish Chandra & 3 others

Founded

2011

$160 million

Acquired by Naver (2023)

POSTHOG

Founder

James Hawkins, Tim Glaser

Founded

2020

$194 million

Private — valued at $5.6 billion (2021)

POSTMAN

Founder

Abhinav Asthana

Founded

2014

$433 million

Acquired by ActiveCampaign (2022)

POSTMARK

Founder

Natalie Nagele, Chris Nagele

Founded

2009

Bootstrapped

PRENDA

Founder

Kelly Smith

Founded

2018

$46 million

PREZI

Founder

Adam Somlai-Fischer & 2 others

Founded

2009

$73 million

PRIMER AI

Founder

Sean Gourley

Founded

2015

$166 million

PROCORE

Founder

Tooey Courtemanche

Founded

2002

$629 million

Public (NYSE: PCOR)

Private — valued at approximately $2.7 billion

PROJECT44

Founder

Jett McCandless

Founded

2014

$600M

PROSPER

Founder

Chris Larsen, John Witchel

Founded

2005

$500 million

PROVE

Founder

Rodger Desai

Founded

2008

$105M+

PSIQUANTUM

Founder

Jeremy O'Brien

Founded

2016

$665 million

PUBLIC.COM

Founder

Jannick Malling and Leif Abraham

Founded

2019

Over $400 million

PUBLIC.COM

Founder

Jannick Malling, Leif Abraham

Founded

2019

$310 million

QDRANT

Founder

Andre Zayarni, Andrey Vasnetsov

Founded

2021

$88 million

QONTO

Founder

Alexandre Prot, Steve Anavi

Founded

2016

€622 million

QOVER

Founder

Quentin Colmant, Jean-Charles Velge

Founded

2016

$100 million

Acquired by Salesforce (2026)

QUALIFIED

Founder

Kraig Swensrud & Sean Whiteley

Founded

2018

$163 million

QUANTUMSCAPE

Founder

Jagdeep Singh

Founded

2010

$2 billion+

Public (NYSE: QS)

QUESTDB

Founder

Vlad Ilyushchenko & 2 others

Founded

2014

$23 million

RIPStreaming

QUIBI

Founder

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman

Founded

2018

$1.75 billion

Shut down (Dec 2020)

QUICKNODE

Founder

Auston Bunsen & 2 others

Founded

2017

$106 million

Private — valued at $5.1B

QUINTOANDAR

Founder

Gabriel Braga, Andre Penha

Founded

2013

$900 million

Private — 60+ million monthly active users

QUIZLET

Founder

Andrew Sutherland

Founded

2005

$62M

Active and profitable — growing rapidly in the developer infrastructure market

RAILWAY

Founder

Jake Cooper, Jared Palmer (early advisor)

Founded

2020

$35M raised

RAMP

Founder

Eric Glyman & Karim Atiyeh

Founded

2019

$1.6 Billion

Private ($13B valuation)

Private (valued at $5.25B as of 2021)

RAPPI

Founder

Simon Borrero & 2 others

Founded

2015

$2.3 billion

RAPYD

Founder

Arik Shtilman & 2 others

Founded

2016

$770 million

RAZORPAY

Founder

Harshil Mathur, Shashank Kumar

Founded

2014

$741.5 million

READWISE

Founder

Daniel Doyon, Tristan Homsi

Founded

2017

Bootstrapped

REBAG

Founder

Charles Gorra

Founded

2014

$90 million

Acquired by Shield AI (2023)

REBELLION DEFENSE

Founder

Trae Stephens & 2 others

Founded

2019

$175 million

Acquired by Mastercard (2024) for $2.65B

RECORDED FUTURE

Founder

Christopher Ahlberg

Founded

2009

$294 million

RECURATE

Founder

Adam Siegel, Wilson Griffin

Founded

2020

$20.4 million

RECURSION PHARMACEUTICALS

Founder

Chris Gibson & 2 others

Founded

2013

$1.5 billion

Public (NASDAQ: RXRX)

Founder

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian

Founded

2005

$1.3 Billion (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: RDDT)

Public (NASDAQ: RDFN) — market cap approximately $1 billion

REDFIN

Founder

Glenn Kelman & 2 others

Founded

2004

$IPO in 2017

REDIS LABS

Founder

Ofer Bengal, Yiftach Shoolman

Founded

2011

$347M+

Private — $1.1B valuation

REDPANDA

Founder

Alexander Gallego

Founded

2019

$276 million

REDWOOD MATERIALS

Founder

JB Straubel

Founded

2017

$2 billion+

REFLAUNT

Founder

Stephanie Crespin

Founded

2018

$12M+

REKA AI

Founder

Dani Yogatama & 4 others

Founded

2023

$110 million

Private — Building Terran R

RELATIVITY SPACE

Founder

Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone

Founded

2015

$1.3 Billion

RELAY THERAPEUTICS

Founder

David E. Shaw & 4 others

Founded

2016

~$1.4B

Public (NASDAQ: RLAY)

Public (NASDAQ: RELY) — market cap ~$6 billion

REMITLY

Founder

Matt Oppenheimer

Founded

2011

$400 million

REMOTE.COM

Founder

Job van der Voort, Marcelo Lebre

Founded

2019

$496 million

Active — serving 500,000+ developers, growing in the US and Europe

RENDER

Founder

Anurag Goel

Founded

2018

$71M raised

Public (NASDAQ: RENT) — market cap ~$150 million (down from $1.7B peak)

RENT THE RUNWAY

Founder

Jennifer Hyman & Jennifer Fleiss

Founded

2009

$541 million

REPLICATE

Founder

Ben Firshman, Andreas Jansson

Founded

2019

$58 million

Private (last raised at undisclosed valuation)

Private — valued at $1.16 billion (2023)

REPLIT

Founder

Amjad Masad

Founded

2016

$222 million

RESEND

Founder

Zeno Rocha

Founded

2022

$5 million

RETELL AI

Founder

Bing Wu & 4 others

Founded

2023

$4.6 million

Private (valued at $3.2B as of 2023)

RETOOL

Founder

David Hsu

Founded

2017

$445 million

REVOLUT

Founder

Nikolay Storonsky

Founded

2015

$1.7 Billion

Private ($45B valuation)

RIGETTI COMPUTING

Founder

Chad Rigetti

Founded

2013

$394 million

Public (NASDAQ: RGTI)

RINGCENTRAL

Founder

Vlad Shmunis and Vlad Vendrow

Founded

1999

$45 million

Public (NYSE: RNG)

Owned by Tencent (acquired 2011-2015)

RIOT GAMES

Founder

Brandon Beck, Marc Merrill

Founded

2006

$100 million

Fintech / Blockchain

RIPPLE

Founder

Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb

Founded

2012

$294 million

Private ($13.5B valuation)

RIPPLING

Founder

Parker Conrad, Prasanna Sankar

Founded

2016

$1.4 billion

RIVIAN

Founder

RJ Scaringe

Founded

2009

$14 billion+

Public (NASDAQ: RIVN)

RIVOS

Founder

Puneet Kumar, Mark Hayter

Founded

2021

$250 Million

RO

Founder

Zachariah Reitano & 2 others

Founded

2017

$876 million

ROBIN AI

Founder

Richard Robinson, James Clough

Founded

2019

$71.7 million

ROBINHOOD

Founder

Vlad Tenev & Baiju Bhatt

Founded

2013

$5.6 Billion

Public (NASDAQ: HOOD)

ROBLOX

Founder

David Baszucki

Founded

2004

$1 billion+

Public (NYSE: RBLX)

ROCKET LAB

Founder

Peter Beck

Founded

2006

$800 Million+

Public (NASDAQ: RKLB)

ROCKET LAWYER

Founder

Charley Moore

Founded

2008

$46.2 million

ROOFR

Founder

Richard Nelson & 2 others

Founded

2016

$51 million

Private — operating. Experienced layoffs in 2023 as housing market cooled

ROOFSTOCK

Founder

Gary Beasley, Gregor Watson

Founded

2015

$365M

Insurtech

ROOT INSURANCE

Founder

Alex Timm

Founded

2015

$527 million

Public (NASDAQ: ROOT) — market cap ~$1.2 billion (recovered from near-zero)

ROVER

Founder

Greg Gotfried & Philip Kimmey

Founded

2011

$310 million

Public (NASDAQ: ROVR)

RUDDERSTACK

Founder

Soumyadeb Mitra, Arnab Pal

Founded

2019

$82 million

RUNNING TIDE

Founder

Marty Odlin

Founded

2020

~$35 million

RUNWAY

Founder

Cristóbal Valenzuela & 2 others

Founded

2018

$237 million

Defense Tech

SAILDRONE

Founder

Richard Jenkins

Founded

2012

$340 million

Active — publishing research, developing commercial AI products

SAKANA AI

Founder

David Ha, Llion Jones

Founded

2023

$54M raised

Private (Vista Equity Partners)

SALESLOFT

Founder

Kyle Porter & 3 others

Founded

2011

$245 million

SAMBANOVA SYSTEMS

Founder

Rodrigo Liang & 2 others

Founded

2017

$1.1 billion

SAMSARA

Founder

Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket

Founded

2015

$930 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: IOT)

SANITY

Founder

Even Westvang & 3 others

Founded

2017

$160 million

Defense Tech

SARONIC

Founder

Dino Mavrookas

Founded

2021

$325 million

SATSURE

Founder

Prateep Basu & 2 others

Founded

2017

$15 million

SCALABLE CAPITAL

Founder

Erik Podzuweit, Florian Prucker

Founded

2014

$590 million

Private ($13.8B valuation)

SCALAPAY

Founder

Simone Mancini and Johnny Mitrevski

Founded

2019

Over $727M in equity and debt

Private (unicorn)

SCALE AI

Founder

Alexandr Wang

Founded

2016

$1.6 billion

RIPFintech

SCALEFACTOR

Founder

Kurt Rathmann

Founded

2014

$104 million

Shut down (2020)

SCHRODINGER

Founder

Richard Friesner, William Goddard III

Founded

1990

~$1.4 billion (pre-IPO and post-IPO equity)

Public (NASDAQ: SDGR)

Acquired by Savvy Games Group (Saudi Arabia) in 2023 for approximately $4.9 billion

SCOPELY

Founder

Walter Driver & 3 others

Founded

2011

$1B

SCRIBD

Founder

Trip Adler & 2 others

Founded

2007

$70 million+

SEA GROUP

Founder

Forrest Li

Founded

2009

$6.3 billion

Public (NYSE: SE)

Sales Tech

SEAMLESS.AI

Founder

Brandon Bornancin

Founded

2015

Bootstrapped (minimal outside funding)

SELINA

Founder

Rafael Museri, Daniel Rudasevski

Founded

2014

$350 million

Public (delisting risk)

Active — operating in Australia, US, and Canada

SENDLE

Founder

James Chin Moody, Sean Geoghegan

Founded

2014

$37M raised

SENTINELONE

Founder

Tomer Weingarten

Founded

2013

$696 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: S)

DevOps / Developer Tools

SENTRY

Founder

David Cramer, Chris Jennings

Founded

2012

$217 million

Private ($3B valuation)

SERVE ROBOTICS

Founder

Ali Kashani, Evas Bekeris

Founded

2021

$80 million

Public (NASDAQ: SERV)

SERVICETITAN

Founder

Ara Mahdessian, Vahe Kuzoyan

Founded

2012

$1.5B+

Public (NASDAQ: TTAN)

SEZZLE

Founder

Charlie Youakim

Founded

2016

$140 million

Public (NASDAQ: SEZL)

SHEIN

Founder

Chris Xu (Xu Yangtian)

Founded

2012

$4 billion

Private — Valued at $2.8B

SHIELD AI

Founder

Brandon Tseng & 2 others

Founded

2015

$900 Million+

SHIPBOB

Founder

Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati

Founded

2014

$330 Million+

Private — valued at approximately $1 billion

SHIPPO

Founder

Laura Behrens Wu, Simon Kreuz

Founded

2013

$330M

SHOPIFY

Founder

Tobias Lütke

Founded

2006

$122 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: SHOP)

SHOPSHOPS

Founder

Liyia Wu

Founded

2015

$15 million

SIERRA

Founder

Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor

Founded

2023

$635 million

Nonprofit (Signal Foundation)

SIGNAL

Founder

Moxie Marlinspike

Founded

2014

$105 million (Signal Foundation)

SILA NANOTECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Gene Berdichevsky & 2 others

Founded

2011

$930 million

SINGLESTORE

Founder

Nikita Shamgunov & 2 others

Founded

2011

$460 million

SKILD AI

Founder

Deepak Pathak, Abhinav Gupta

Founded

2023

$300 million

Creator Economy

SKOOL

Founder

Sam Ovens

Founded

2019

$0 (bootstrapped)

Private (Bootstrapped)

Private (valued at $2.2B as of 2022)

SKYDIO

Founder

Adam Bry & 2 others

Founded

2014

$740 million

Acquired by Trip.com ($1.74B)

SKYSCANNER

Founder

Gareth Williams & 2 others

Founded

2003

$192 million

Acquired by Salesforce ($27.7B)

SLACK

Founder

Stewart Butterfield

Founded

2013

$1.4 Billion

SLICE

Founder

Rajan Bajaj

Founded

2016

$220 million

SNAP INC.

Founder

Evan Spiegel & 2 others

Founded

2011

$4.9 billion

Public (NYSE: SNAP)

SNIPD

Founder

Kevin Smith & 2 others

Founded

2021

$700,000

SNORKEL AI

Founder

Alex Ratner & 3 others

Founded

2019

$135 million

Data Analytics

SNOWFLAKE

Founder

Benoit Dageville & 2 others

Founded

2012

$1.4 billion (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: SNOW)

SNYK

Founder

Guy Podjarny

Founded

2015

$1.3 Billion

SOCURE

Founder

Sunil Madhu

Founded

2012

$740 million

SOFI

Founder

Mike Cagney & 3 others

Founded

2011

$3.1 billion

Public (NASDAQ: SOFI)

SOFTR

Founder

Mariam Hakobyan, Artur Mkrtchyan

Founded

2019

$14 million

Blockchain

SOLANA LABS

Founder

Anatoly Yakovenko

Founded

2017

$335 million

RIPClean Energy

SOLYNDRA

Founder

Chris Gronet

Founded

2005

$1.6 billion

Bankrupt (2011)

SONDER

Founder

Francis Davidson

Founded

2014

$560 million

Public (NASDAQ: SOND)

Active — $4.2B peak valuation, NFT volumes lower than 2021 peak but recovering

SORARE

Founder

Nicolas Julia, Adrien Montfort

Founded

2018

$740M raised

SOUNDCLOUD

Founder

Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss

Founded

2007

$467 million

Private ($350B valuation)

Aerospace

SPACEX

Founder

Elon Musk

Founded

2002

$9.9 Billion

SPAN.IO

Founder

Arch Rao

Founded

2018

$90 million

SPEECHIFY

Founder

Cliff Weitzman and Tyler Weitzman

Founded

2017

$10 million

SPENDESK

Founder

Rodolphe Ardant

Founded

2016

$300 million

Public (NYSE: SPIR) — market cap approximately $200 million (down from $1.6 billion at SPAC peak)

SPIRE GLOBAL

Founder

Peter Platzer & 2 others

Founded

2012

$290M+

SPLICE

Founder

Steve Martocci, Matt Aimonetti

Founded

2013

$105 million

Acquired by Harness (2022)

SPLIT

Founder

Adil Aijaz & 2 others

Founded

2015

$61M raised

Streaming

SPOTIFY

Founder

Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon

Founded

2006

$2.7 billion

Public (NYSE: SPOT)

SPOTTER

Founder

Aaron DeBevoise

Founded

2019

$310M+

SPRING HEALTH

Founder

April Koh

Founded

2016

$470M+

SQUARESPACE

Founder

Anthony Casalena

Founded

2003

$578.5 million

Private (Permira, 2024)

STABILITY AI

Founder

Emad Mostaque

Founded

2019

$101 million

Private (restructuring)

STACKER

Founder

Michael Skelly, Sam Davyson

Founded

2017

$23 million

STARKWARE

Founder

Eli Ben-Sasson & 3 others

Founded

2018

$273 million

Private — valued at $8B

STARLING BANK

Founder

Anne Boden

Founded

2014

£954 million

Private (Profitable)

STARSHIP TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Ahti Heinla, Janus Friis

Founded

2014

$202 million

Private — valued at approximately $1.4 billion

STASH

Founder

Brandon Krieg, Ed Robinson

Founded

2015

$427M

STELLAR

Founder

Jed McCaleb, Joyce Kim

Founded

2014

$39 million

Active (Non-profit)

STEP

Founder

CJ MacDonald, Alexis Ohanian (advisor)

Founded

2018

$175 million

STOCKX

Founder

Josh Luber & 3 others

Founded

2016

$690 million

STRAVA

Founder

Mark Gainey, Michael Horvath

Founded

2009

$190 million

Private — last valued at $650M in 2021

STRIPE

Founder

Patrick & John Collison

Founded

2010

$8.7 Billion

Private ($91B valuation)

Media Tech

SUBSTACK

Founder

Chris Best & 2 others

Founded

2017

$82M raised

SUDOWRITE

Founder

Amit Gupta, James Yu

Founded

2020

$3 million

SUI

Founder

Evan Cheng & 4 others

Founded

2021

$336 million

Private — valued at $500 million (2024)

SUNO

Founder

Mikey Shulman

Founded

2022

$125 million

SUPABASE

Founder

Paul Copplestone, Ant Wilson

Founded

2020

$400 million+

Private (valued at $500M+ as of 2024)

SUPABASE

Founder

Paul Copplestone, Ant Wilson

Founded

2020

$116 million

Private (majority owned by Tencent at $10.2B valuation)

SUPERCELL

Founder

Ilkka Paananen

Founded

2010

$150 million

SURE

Founder

Wayne Slavin, Jarod Kolman

Founded

2015

$100 million

SWEEP

Founder

Rachel Delacour, Alexis Normand

Founded

2020

$100 million

SWEETGREEN

Founder

Jonathan Neman & 2 others

Founded

2007

$580 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: SG)

SWIGGY

Founder

Sriharsha Majety & 2 others

Founded

2014

$3.6 billion

Public (BSE/NSE: SWIGGY)

SWORD HEALTH

Founder

Virgilio Bento

Founded

2015

$340 million

SYFE

Founder

Dhruv Arora

Founded

2017

$132 million

SYLVERA

Founder

Allister Furey, Sam Clark

Founded

2020

$57M

Private — valued at $2.1 billion (2024)

SYNTHESIA

Founder

Victor Riparbelli

Founded

2017

$270 million

SYNTHESIS

Founder

Joshua Dahn and Chrisman Frank

Founded

2020

$17.5 million

SYSDIG

Founder

Loris Degioanni

Founded

2013

$749 million

TABBY

Founder

Hosam Arab and Daniil Barkalov

Founded

2019

Over $1 billion (equity and debt)

Private — the oldest and most well-funded private fusion company. Building toward the Copernicus reactor.

TAE TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

Norman Rostoker, Michl Binderbauer

Founded

1998

$1.2B

Private — market leader in South African e-commerce, majority-owned by Naspers

TAKEALOT

Founder

Kim Reid, Fred Zuckerman (Tiger Global-backed acquisition of Take2)

Founded

2011

$185M raised

TALKDESK

Founder

Tiago Paiva, Cristina Fonseca

Founded

2011

$498 million

TALKSHOPLIVE

Founder

Bryan Moore, Beau Throckmorton

Founded

2018

~$11M (Series A, 2021)

TALKSPACE

Founder

Oren Frank, Roni Frank

Founded

2012

$250 million+ (including SPAC)

Public (Nasdaq: TALK)

TAMARA

Founder

Abdulmajeed Alsukhan & 2 others

Founded

2020

Over $500 million (equity and debt)

TANDEM

Founder

Rajiv Ayyangar & 2 others

Founded

2019

~$5M raised

Shut down (inactive)

TARANIS

Founder

Ofir Schlam & 2 others

Founded

2015

~$30 million

TEACHABLE

Founder

Ankur Nagpal

Founded

2013

$12.5 million

Acquired (Hotmart, 2020)

TELADOC

Founder

Michael Gorton, Byron Brooks

Founded

2002

$7.1 billion

Public (NYSE: TDOC)

Private — 900M+ monthly active users

Founder

Pavel Durov and Nikolai Durov

Founded

2013

$2.7 Billion

Private (pivoted to app-only)

TEMPO

Founder

Moawia Eldeeb, Josh Augustin

Founded

2015

$300 million

TEMPORAL

Founder

Maxim Fateev, Samar Abbas

Founded

2019

$246 million

TEMPUS

Founder

Eric Lefkofsky

Founded

2015

$1.3 billion

Public (NASDAQ: TEM)

Private (subsidiary of PDD Holdings)

TEMU

Founder

Colin Huang (via PDD Holdings)

Founded

2022

Backed by PDD Holdings (public company, ~$150B+ market cap)

TENDERLY

Founder

Andrej Bencic & 3 others

Founded

2018

$49.4 million

Private — valued at approximately $2.6 billion. Jim Keller as CEO

AI Hardware

TENSTORRENT

Founder

Ljubisa Bajic

Founded

2016

$370M+

TERMINAL

Founder

Raghav Midha and Connor Giles

Founded

2021

$3.1 million

Acquired by Proofpoint (2023)

TESSIAN

Founder

Tim Sadler & 2 others

Founded

2013

$130 million

Private (massively profitable, $110B+ in USDT circulation)

TETHER

Founder

Brock Pierce & 2 others

Founded

2014

Self-funded (no traditional VC rounds)

Infrastructure

THE BORING COMPANY

Founder

Elon Musk

Founded

2016

$675 million

Private ($5.7B valuation)

THE GRAPH

Founder

Yaniv Tal & 2 others

Founded

2018

$69 million

Active (Decentralized)

THE REALREAL

Founder

Julie Wainwright

Founded

2011

$288 million (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: REAL)

RIPHealth Tech

THERANOS

Founder

Elizabeth Holmes

Founded

2003

$945 million

Dissolved (2018)

THINKIFIC

Founder

Greg Smith

Founded

2012

$160 million CAD

Public (TSX: THNC)

THIRTY MADISON

Founder

Steve Gutentag and Demetri Karagas

Founded

2018

$140M

Active — 275M+ monthly active users as of 2024

THREADS

Founder

Adam Mosseri, Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)

Founded

2023

Meta-funded (internal)

THREDUP

Founder

James Reinhart & 2 others

Founded

2009

$300 million

Public (NASDAQ: TDUP)

THUNES

Founder

Peter De Caluwe

Founded

2016

$185 million

TIDIO

Founder

Marcin Wiktor & Tytus Gołas

Founded

2013

$26.8 million

TIER MOBILITY

Founder

Lawrence Leuschner & 2 others

Founded

2018

$660 million

TIGERA

Founder

Alex Pollitt & 2 others

Founded

2016

$56 million

Private (ByteDance, ~$300B valuation) — Facing potential US ban

TIKTOK

Founder

Zhang Yiming (ByteDance)

Founded

2016

$7.4 Billion (ByteDance total)

TIMESCALE

Founder

Ajay Kulkarni, Mike Freedman

Founded

2015

$181 million

Private (unicorn, $1.125B valuation)

TINES

Founder

Eoin Hinchy, Thomas Kinsella

Founded

2018

$272 million

TITAN

Founder

Clayton Gardner & 2 others

Founded

2018

Over $75 million

Public (NYSE: TOST) — market cap ~$18 billion

TOAST

Founder

Steve Fredette & 2 others

Founded

2012

$900 million

TOGAL.AI

Founder

Patrick Murphy and Patrick Hughes

Founded

2019

$17.2 million

TOGETHER AI

Founder

Vipul Ved Prakash & 4 others

Founded

2022

$228 million

TOKAMAK ENERGY

Founder

Alan Sykes, David Kingham

Founded

2009

$250M+ raised (as of 2024)

Part of GoTo Group (IDX: GOTO) — Indonesia's largest tech company

TOKOPEDIA

Founder

William Tanuwijaya, Leontinus Alpha Edison

Founded

2009

$2.8B

TOME

Founder

Keith Peiris, Henri Liriani

Founded

2020

$75 million

TONAL

Founder

Aly Orady

Founded

2015

$450 million

TOPTAL

Founder

Taso Du Val and Breanden Beneschott

Founded

2010

Undisclosed

Private (unicorn, $1.2B valuation)

TORQ

Founder

Ofer Smadari & 2 others

Founded

2020

$332 million

TOSS

Founder

Seung Gun Lee (Lee Seung-gun)

Founded

2015

$2.1 billion

TRADE REPUBLIC

Founder

Christian Hecker & 2 others

Founded

2015

€1.1 billion

Private (Unicorn)

TRANSFERGO

Founder

Daumantas Dvilinskas & 2 others

Founded

2012

$118 million

Private (Unicorn, valued at $1.4B)

TRAVELPERK

Founder

Avi Meir, Javier Suarez

Founded

2015

$414 million

TRELL

Founder

Pulkit Agrawal & 3 others

Founded

2017

$62 Million

Private (distressed)

Procurement

TROPIC

Founder

David Campbell

Founded

2020

$105 million

TROVE

Founder

Andy Ruben

Founded

2012

$100M+

TRULIOO

Founder

Stephen Ufford, Tanis Jorge

Founded

2011

$474 million

Operating under Automattic (WordPress.com owner) — smaller but stable

RIPSocial Media

TUMBLR

Founder

David Karp

Founded

2007

Acquired twice — for $1.1B and then for ~$3M

Subsidiary of Believe (Euronext: BLV)

TUNECORE

Founder

Jeff Price, Peter Wells

Founded

2005

$6 million

TURING

Founder

Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan

Founded

2018

$247 million

TURO

Founder

Shelby Clark

Founded

2009

$500 million

Private (IPO pending)

Active — one of the fastest-growing edge database platforms

TURSO

Founder

Glauber Costa

Founded

2022

$32M raised

Delisted (2024), now CreateAI

TUSIMPLE

Founder

Mo Chen, Xiaodi Hou

Founded

2015

Over $1 billion

Cloud Communications / API

TWILIO

Founder

Jeff Lawson & 2 others

Founded

2008

$253 million (pre-IPO)

Public (NYSE: TWLO)

Acquired by Amazon (2014) for $970 million

TWITCH

Founder

Justin Kan & Emmett Shear

Founded

2011

$35 million (pre-acquisition)

TYMEBANK

Founder

Coen Jonker

Founded

2018

$280 million+

TYPE ONE ENERGY

Founder

Brian Matthews & 4 others

Founded

2019

$165 million

TYPEFACE

Founder

Abhay Parasnis

Founded

2022

$165 million

UALÁ

Founder

Pierpaolo Barbieri

Founded

2017

$544 million

UBER

Founder

Travis Kalanick & Garrett Camp

Founded

2009

$25.2 Billion

Public (NYSE: UBER)

Active (restructured) — profitable in select verticals, pursuing IPO

UDAAN

Founder

Amod Malviya & 2 others

Founded

2016

$1.4B raised

UDEMY

Founder

Eren Bali & 2 others

Founded

2010

$310 Million (pre-IPO)

Public (NASDAQ: UDMY)

UDIO

Founder

David Ding & 3 others

Founded

2023

$10 million

Private — beta

Automation

UIPATH

Founder

Daniel Dines, Marius Tîrcă

Founded

2005

$2 billion

Public (NYSE: PATH)

Private — Restructuring, targeting profitability

UNACADEMY

Founder

Gaurav Munjal & 2 others

Founded

2015

$880 Million

DeFi Protocol

UNISWAP

Founder

Hayden Adams

Founded

2018

$176 million

UNITY TECHNOLOGIES

Founder

David Helgason & 2 others

Founded

2004

$1.3 billion

Public (NYSE: U)

UNTETHER AI

Founder

Martin Snelgrove and co-founders

Founded

2018

approximately $145 million

UPGRAD

Founder

Ronnie Screwvala & 2 others

Founded

2015

$250 million

Private — USDA/FDA approved. Pre-revenue at commercial scale

UPSIDE FOODS

Founder

Uma Valeti & 2 others

Founded

2015

$608M

UPSTART

Founder

Dave Girouard & 2 others

Founded

2012

$160 million

Public (NASDAQ: UPST)

UPTYCS

Founder

Ganesh Pai

Founded

2016

$93 million

VACASA

Founder

Eric Breon

Founded

2009

$1.6 billion

Public (NASDAQ: VCSA)

VALO HEALTH

Founder

David Berry

Founded

2019

$520 million

Private — first consumer fintech with a US national bank charter

VARO BANK

Founder

Colin Walsh

Founded

2015

$992 million

Acquired by Aakash Educational Services in 2023. Operating as a hybrid online/offline education platform.

VEDANTU

Founder

Vamsi Krishna & 3 others

Founded

2011

$291M

Shut down in 2024 after running out of funding. $647 million raised, $0 returned to investors.

VEEV

Founder

Amit Haller

Founded

2008

$647M

VEEVA SYSTEMS

Founder

Peter Gassner, Matthew Wallach

Founded

2007

$7 million

Public (NYSE: VEEV)

VELOCITY GLOBAL

Founder

Ben Wright

Founded

2014

$400 million

Merged with Ouster (2023)

VELODYNE LIDAR

Founder

David Hall

Founded

2005

$290 million

Private (valued at $3.25B as of 2024)

VERCEL

Founder

Guillermo Rauch

Founded

2015

$563 million

VERDOX

Founder

Brian Baynes, Yet-Ming Chiang

Founded

2019

$80 million

Founder

Joe Kudla

Founded

2015

$400M+

Private ($4B+ valuation)

WAABI

Founder

Raquel Urtasun

Founded

2021

$1.28 billion

WAG!

Founder

Jason Meltzer, Joshua Viner

Founded

2015

$400 million

Public (NASDAQ: PET)

WAGMO

Founder

Christie Horvath

Founded

2018

$14 million

WARBY PARKER

Founder

Neil Blumenthal & 3 others

Founded

2010

$535M+

Public (NYSE: WRBY)

Active (merged with MaxAB) — pan-African B2B commerce platform

WASOKO

Founder

Daniel Yu

Founded

2016

$220M raised

WATERSHED

Founder

Taylor Francis & 2 others

Founded

2019

$370 million

Active — largest mobile money provider in Senegal and growing across West Africa

WAVE

Founder

Drew Durbin, Lincoln Quirk

Founded

2018

$290M raised

WAYMO

Founder

Sebastian Thrun (Google Self-Driving Car Project)

Founded

2009

$5.7 Billion

Active — Operating

WAYVE

Founder

Alex Kendall, Amar Shah

Founded

2017

$1.3 billion

WEALTHFRONT

Founder

Andy Rachleff, Dan Carroll

Founded

2008

$204 million

WEALTHSIMPLE

Founder

Michael Katchen & 2 others

Founded

2014

Over $900 million

WEAVIATE

Founder

Bob van Luijt, Etienne Dilocker

Founded

2019

$67.5M

Private — profitable, one of the world's most profitable digital banks by 2023

WEBANK

Founder

Founded by Tencent (led by Pony Ma)

Founded

2014

Private (Tencent-controlled)

Private (valued at $4B as of 2022)

WEBFLOW

Founder

Vlad Magdalin & 2 others

Founded

2013

$334 million

Insurtech

WEFOX

Founder

Julian Teicke

Founded

2015

$1.7 billion

Private — valued at $4.5 billion (2022, under pressure)

WEIGHTS & BIASES

Founder

Lukas Biewald & 2 others

Founded

2018

$250 million

Bankrupt (filed Chapter 11, Nov 2023)

RIPReal Estate

WEWORK

Founder

Adam Neumann, Miguel McKelvey

Founded

2010

$22.2 billion

Private ($4.8B valuation)

WHATNOT

Founder

Grant LaFontaine, Logan Head

Founded

2019

$746 million

Social / Messaging

Founder

Jan Koum, Brian Acton

Founded

2009

$60M (before Facebook acquisition)

Subsidiary of Meta (NASDAQ: META) — 2+ billion monthly active users. The most popular messaging app in the world.

WHOOP

Founder

Will Ahmed

Founded

2012

$675 million

Acquired by Cognition (2025)

WINDSURF

Founder

Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen

Founded

2021

$243 million

Drone Tech

WING

Founder

Alphabet (Google X)

Founded

2012

Alphabet-funded (no external rounds)

Alphabet Subsidiary

RIPFintech

WIRECARD

Founder

Markus Braun

Founded

1999

Public company (DAX 30)

Insolvent (2020)

Private (Mars Petcare subsidiary)

WISDOM PANEL

Founder

Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition (Mars Petcare)

Founded

2006

Internal (Mars Petcare subsidiary)

WISE

Founder

Kristo Käärmann & Taavet Hinrikus

Founded

2011

$396 Million

Public (LSE: WISE)

Public (NASDAQ: WISH → acquired by Qoo10 in 2024 for ~$173M) — acquired at a 98% discount from IPO peak

WISH

Founder

Piotr Szulczewski, Danny Zhang

Founded

2010

$1.6B

WIX

Founder

Avishai Abrahami & 2 others

Founded

2006

$58.5 million before IPO

Public (NASDAQ: WIX)

Acquired by Google ($32B)

WIZ

Founder

Assaf Rappaport & 3 others

Founded

2020

$1.9 billion

Wound down chatbot (2025)

WOEBOT HEALTH

Founder

Alison Darcy

Founded

2017

$124M+

WOOCOMMERCE

Founder

Adii Pienaar & 2 others

Founded

2011

Acquired by Automattic for ~$30 million (2015)

Owned by Automattic

Enterprise Software

WORKDAY

Founder

Dave Duffield, Aneel Bhusri

Founded

2005

$225 million

Public (NASDAQ: WDAY)

WORKSTREAM

Founder

Desmond Lim & 2 others

Founded

2018

$58 million

WORLD LABS

Founder

Fei-Fei Li & 3 others

Founded

2024

$1.23 billion