30 Most valuable technology start-ups

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Lead: US tech blog website BusinessInsider Monday The 30 Most valuable startups in New York, 28 of them valued at 100 million dollars or more than 100 million dollars, and one valued at $1 billion.

The following is a specific list:

1.Gilt Groupe

Latest valuation: USD 1.05 billion

Last year's valuation: 750 million dollars

Business Overview: Luxury and fashion Products sales website

Company CEO: Kevin Raien (Kevin Ryan)

Investor: Matrix, General Atlantic, etc.

Analysis: Gilt Groupe has raised $ more than 80 million from the Matrix, General Atlantic and other VCs to finance $80 million to $100 million from private investors in February this year. The site can be said to be a successful example of discounted sales of fashion products and is now expanding its business to food and tourism. Gilt Groupe is well-funded and the management team has a wealth of industry experience.

We believe that E-commerce accounts for the overall share of the U.S. retail market will continue to grow, and gilt groupe is one of the best. In the last fiscal year ended June 2010, Gilt groupe revenues of about $270 million trillion, with revenues expected to close to $500 million trillion this fiscal year. Based on expectations of twice times revenue, we valued gilt groupe at $1.05 billion trillion.

2.Tumblr

Latest Valuation: USD 800 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business Overview: Blog platform

Company CEO: David Kap (David Karp)

Investor: Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Redwood and Greylock

Analysis: Tumblr has achieved explosive growth this year, as is its valuation. The new york-based Lightweight blog has recently become a favorite for VC companies, and valuations are rising as they raise large sums of money. People familiar with the matter said Tumblr is currently negotiating a new round of financing with VCs to raise $75 million trillion to $100 million trillion, at a valuation of at least $800 million trillion.

3.ZocDoc

Latest valuation: USD 700 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business profile: Online Doctor appointment website

Company CEO: Serus Massumi (Cyrus Massoumi)

Investor: Bezos (Jeff Bezos), DST Global, the founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Benioff (Mark Benioff), and SV Angel

Analysis: ZocDoc provides a shortcut to the appointment of doctors, who use the service more than 700,000 per month. ZocDoc is free to patients. This summer, DST Global injected $50 million into ZocDoc, valued at $700 million.

4.Foursquare

Latest valuation: USD 600 million

Last year's valuation: 100 million dollars

Business profile: Social check-in services based on geography

Company CEO: Dennis Crolly (Dennis Crowley)

Investor: Union Square Ventures, O ' Reiley Alphatech Ventures, Dorsey (Jack Dorsey), Kevin Ross (Kevin Rose), Alex Reinoth (Alex rainert), Ron · Conway (Ron Conway), Joshua Schachter Chad Stoller, Sergio Salvatorre (Sergio Salvatore) and Anderson How Rowitz Fund (Andreessen Horowitz)

Analysis: In the latest round of financing up to June 2011, Foursquare raised 50 million dollars. This year for Foursquare is also significant, the company with American Express, Anglo Express and other well-known enterprises to establish a cooperative relationship between the total number of registered users up to 10 million, the number of sign-in has just broken 1 billion times recently. In the latest round of financing, Foursquare is valued at $600 million trillion.

5.Buddy Media

Latest valuation: USD 500 million

Last year's valuation: 150 million dollars

Business profile: Social media management Platform

Company CEO: Michael Lazero (Michael M. Lazerow)

Investor: Institutional Ventures, GGV Capital, Roger Enriberg (Roger Ehrenberg), SoftBank, European Entrepreneur Fund, Greycroft, Ron Conway and Bay You

Analysis: As of June 2011, Buddy Media completed a new round of financing, raising the total amount of money up to 54 million U.S. dollars. This year is of great significance to Buddy media. We estimate that the social media management platform 2011 revenue will grow twice times year-on-year, to 20 million U.S. dollars. In the latest round of funding, Buddy media is valued at around $500 million trillion.

6.Yodle

Latest Valuation: USD 400 million

Last year's valuation: 250 million dollars

Business Profile: Local Enterprises SEM (search engine marketing) agent

Company CEO: Court Cunningham (Earl Cunningham)

Investor: Bessemer Venture, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Wharton Venture, Initiation, Mento Tech Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurveston Substituting fund and JAFCO Ventures

Analysis: Yodle is designed to help local businesses sell themselves on the Internet. We estimate that the company's 2011 revenue will reach $100 million trillion, up from $70 million in 2010. Based on 4 times times revenue forecasts, we valued Yodle at $400 million trillion.

7.Everyday Tiyatien

Latest Valuation: USD 400 million

Last year's valuation: 480 million dollars

Business Profile: Health Information Aggregation website

Company CEO: Benjamin Wolin (Benjamin Wolin)

Investor: Foundation Capital, Neocarta Ventures, Revolution, Rho Ventures, Scale Venture and Sanlitun

Analysis: Everyday Tiyatien is a health information aggregation website, which cancelled its IPO plan later in 2010, but raised 20 million of billions of dollars. We estimate that everyday Tiyatien's revenue this year is about $100 million trillion, based on 4 times times revenue forecasts, we valued Ideeli at $400 million.

8.Ideeli

Latest valuation: USD 350 million

Last year's valuation: 250 million dollars

Business Overview: Online retail

Company CEO: Paul Heli (Paul Hurley)

Investor: Next World, Cue Ball, starvest, Constellation substituting capital and Kodiak Venture

Analysis: Ideeli is a website that specializes in online discounts for daily necessities such as fashion, beauty, home and travel. Because the product online existence time is not long, Ideeli therefore also is classified as "The Flash buys" the website one kind. We estimate that Ideeli's revenue this year is about $250 million trillion, based on 1 to twice times revenue forecasts, we valued Ideeli at $350 million.

9.Fresh Direct

Latest valuation: USD 350 million

Last year's valuation: 300 million dollars

Business Profile: A business website for groceries

Company CEO: Rick Braddock (Rick Braddock)

Investor: Wm Morrison Supermarkets, AIG Global Investment Corp., AIG Capital, Maverick, CIBC, Canyon and Mercantile Capital

Analysis: Fresh Direct is a business website specialising in groceries, which financed $50 million from the British grocery chain WM Morrison supermarkets in March 2011. We estimate that fresh Direct's revenue in 2011 will reach $350 million trillion, based on 1 time times revenue forecasts, our fresh direct is valued at $350 million.

Collective

Latest Valuation: USD 275 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business Overview: For advertisers and publishers to provide display advertising solutions

Company CEO: Chow Aprenti (Joe Apprendi)

Investor: Accel, Greycroft and Inovia capital

Analysis: Collective is a digital display advertising platform. We estimate that collective's revenue in 2011 was about $150 million trillion, up from $100 million in 2010. Based on twice times revenue forecasts, we valued Etsy at $275 million trillion.

11.Etsy

Latest Valuation: USD 225 million

Last year's valuation: 300 million dollars

Business Overview: Handmade products Trading website

Company CEO: Rob Kalin (Rob Kalin)

Investor: Katrina Fick (Caterina Fake), Stewart Bad Fuerde (Stewart Butterfield), Stewart Bad Fuerde (Stewart Butterfield), Albert Winger (Albert Wenger), Union Square Ventures, Accel and Hubert Burda Media

Analysis: We estimate that Etsy's revenue in 2011 was about $75 million trillion, up from $50 million in 2010. Based on 3 times times revenue forecasts, we valued Etsy at $225 million trillion.

12.The Ladders

Latest Valuation: USD 225 million

Last year's valuation: 80 million dollars

Business Overview: Membership System job search and recruitment website

Company CEO: Mark Celledelat (Marc Cenedella)

Investor: Matrix and Roger Allenberg (Roger Ehrenberg)

Analysis: According to the TheLadders stock in the level two market sharespost trading Price, the company's valuation reached 225 million U.S. dollars.

13.Tremor Video

Latest Valuation: USD 225 million

Last year's valuation: 175 million dollars

Business Overview: Online video Advertising network

Company CEO: Bill Dey (Bill Day)

Investor: Canaan, Masthead Venture, European Entrepreneur Fund, Meritech Capital, SAP Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tirangle Peak and DFJ substituting

Analysis: Tremor is a video advertising company that provides streaming video advertising, and we estimate that the company's 2011 revenue was about $100 million trillion, up from $75 million last year. Based on twice times revenue forecasts, we valued $225 million for tremor video.

14.Undertone

Latest Valuation: USD 200 million

Last year's valuation: 250 million dollars

Business Overview: Advertising network, digital media purchase platform

Company CEO: Michael Cassidy (Michael Cassidy)

Investor: JMI Equity and Orix Venture Finance

Analysis: Undertone is a high-end interactive advertising media, proficient in display advertising and video. We estimate that the company's 2011 revenue was about $125 million trillion, up from $100 million last year. Based on expectations of 1 to twice times revenue, we valued undertone at $200 million.

15.Phreesia

Latest Valuation: USD 200 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business Overview: Patient Rapid Registration Equipment

Company CEO: Cham Indigue (Chaim indig)

Investor: HLM Venture, Long River Ventures, Polaris Venture, BlueCross BlueShield, Venture Team and Adcension Tiyatien Ventures

Analysis: Phreesia is a patient rapid registration equipment manufacturer, raised 20 million dollars this summer, the total amount of financing has reached 42 million U.S. dollars. The company profited by selling medical ads, and we estimate that the Phreesia is valued at around 200 million dollars.

16.SecondMarket

Latest Valuation: USD 200 million

Last year's valuation: 250 million dollars

Business Overview: Illiquid assets Online trading platform

Company CEO: Barry Hilbert (Barry Silbert)

Investor: Firstmark capital, Li Ka-shing (Li Ka-shing) and Temasek

Analysis: In 2011, SecondMarket was concerned about brokering shares in private companies such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. SecondMarket also deals in convertible bonds and other illiquid assets. We estimate that the company's 2011 revenue will reach $35 million trillion, compared with a 2010 revenue of just 16 million dollars. Based on 6 times times revenue forecasts, we valued secondmarket at $200 million trillion.

17.AppNexus

Latest Valuation: USD 175 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business Overview: Real-time network advertising purchase platform

Company CEO: Blaine Ochri (Brian O ' Kelley)

Investor: Venrock, Kodiak Venture, Round Capital and Microsoft

Analysis: AppNexus is an advanced platform engaged in real time advertising auction. We estimate that the company's 2011 revenue is about $25 million trillion, about 3.5 times times the 7 million US dollars in 2010. Based on 7 times times revenue forecasts, we valued AppNexus at $175 million trillion.

18.Vibrant Media

Latest Valuation: USD 175 million

Last year's valuation: 275 million dollars

Business Overview: Content-related advertising network

Company CEO: Jeff Babuka (Jeff babka)

Investor: Fortis and ABS Ventures

Analysis: Vibrant media is a content-related advertising company. We estimate that the company's 2011 revenue was about $130 million trillion, roughly unchanged from last year. Based on expectations of 1 to twice times revenue, we valued Gawker Media at 175 million dollars.

19.Gawker

Latest Valuation: USD 175 million

Last year's valuation: 150 million dollars

Business Profile: Online media company

Company CEO: Nick Denton (Nick Denton)

Investor: No

Analysis: Gawker Media is an online media network. We estimate that the company's revenue will reach 30 million dollars this year. Based on expectations of 6 times times revenue, we valued Gawker Media at $175 million trillion.

20.media6degrees

Latest valuation: USD 150 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business profile: Social advertising platform

Company CEO: Phillips (Tom Phillips)

Investor: Menlo Ventures, US Venture and Venrock

Analysis: Media6degrees is an ad network focused on social positioning, and we estimate that media6degrees revenue this year is about $30 million trillion, up from $20 million in 2010. Based on 5 times times revenue forecasts, we valued Media6degrees at $150 million trillion.

21.Thrillist

Latest valuation: USD 150 million

Last year's valuation: 75 million dollars

Business Overview: Online Life Information Service

Company CEO: Ben Reille (Ben lerer)

Investor: Unknown

Analysis: Thrillist is a publisher of Digital Life Publications, covering 17 countries and regions with more than 2 million users. The company launched the group buying function has been a great success, and constantly contribute to thrillist revenue. We estimate that Thrillist's revenue this year is about $40 million trillion, well above last year's 10 million dollars to 15 million dollars. The company's business has been growing steadily and, in view of this, we are valuing complex media at $150 million trillion.

22.Complex Media

Latest valuation: USD 140 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business Profile: Multi-platform media company for Men

Company CEO: Richie Antonillo (Rich Antoniello)

Investor: Accel and Austin Ventures

Analysis: We estimate that complex media's revenue this year is about $35 million trillion, up from $20 million to $25 million in 2010. Based on expectations of 4 times times revenue, we valued complex media at $140 million trillion.

23.CafeMom

Latest Valuation: USD 130 million

Last year's valuation: 78 million dollars to 150 million dollars

Business profile: Social networking sites and communities for adult women

Company CEO: Michael Sanchez (Michael Sanchez)

Investor: Highland Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Analysis: CafeMom is an increasingly popular social networking site for adult women who can visit the site for advice and support on a variety of topics. We estimate that CafeMom's revenue in 2011 was about $35 million trillion, up from $30 million last year. Based on expectations of 3 to 4 times times revenue, we valued CafeMom at $130 million.

24.Warby Parker

Latest valuation: USD 120 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business Overview: Glasses discount Retail website

Company CEO: David Gilber (David Gilboa) and Nier Blumen (Neil Blumenthal)

Investor: Round Capital, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures and Smith (Davis Smith)

Analysis: Although online retailing is not profitable, glasses are something that users buy almost every year, and Warby Parker products have the characteristics of attracting repeat customers. Warby Parker sold more than 100,000 glasses last year, people familiar with the matter said. Warby Parker has just raised 12 million dollars in the latest round of funding, valued at $100 million to $200 million, according to several people familiar with the matter.

25.Rent the runway

Latest Valuation: USD 105 million

Last year's valuation: 100 million dollars

Business Overview: E-commerce

Company CEO: Jennifer Haiman (Jennifer Hyman)

Investor: Bain Capital Ventures, Highland and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Analysis: We estimate that rent the runway revenue in 2011 will reach $20 million trillion, three times times more than last year. The company's 2010 revenue was 6 million dollars. Based on expectations of 4 times times revenue, we valued the rent the runway at $105 million.

26.Pontiflex

Latest valuation: USD 100 million

Last year's valuation: 90 million dollars

Business profile: Social and email acquisition platform

Company CEO: Zeffrin Lasche (Zephrin Lasker)

Investor: New Atlantic Ventures, Greenhill SAVP and Rre Ventures

Analysis: Pontiflex is designed to help advertisers connect with digital media users, which launched mobile advertising services this year and are now growing rapidly. Pontiflex financed 60,000 dollars in February 2011. We estimate that the Pontiflex revenue this year will reach $20 million trillion, higher than last year's 12 million dollars. Based on 5 times times revenue forecasts, we valued Pontiflex at $100 million trillion.

27.Clickable

Latest valuation: USD 100 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business Overview: SEM (search engine marketing) software

Company CEO: David Kid (David Kidder)

Investor: Firstmark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Founders Fund

Analysis: Clickable is an advertiser-oriented pay-per-click (PPC) management solution Company, with total financing up to $20.5 million trillion, and revenue growth of 200% per cent year-on-year. People familiar with the matter said the clickable was valued at about 100 million dollars.

28.RecycleBank

Latest valuation: USD 100 million

Last year's valuation: 100 million dollars

Business Overview: Clean technology

Company CEO: Jonathan Xu (Jonathan Hsu)

Investor: Generation Investment Management, Paul Capital Investments, RRE Ventures, Sigma, Kleiner Perkins & Byers and the westly Group

Analysis: Recyclebank has established partnerships with cleaning companies in several cities to encourage home users to recycle waste products. The more garbage users recycle, the more bonus points that are converted into Recyclebank, which can be discounted for the business involved in the project. We estimate that Recyclebank last year's revenue was about $9 million trillion, which is expected to reach $18 million this year. Based on 5 times times revenue forecasts, we valued Recyclebank at $100 million trillion.

29.LearnVest

Latest valuation: USD 100 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business profile: Women's Financial Guide website

Company CEO: Alexa Feng Tobel (Alexa von Tobel)

Investor: Richmond Management, Rose Tech Ventures, Circle Financial Group, PKS Capital, Accel and Circle Group

Analysis: LearnVest is a financial instrument, service and content company. The LearnVest business model is similar to Investools and Mint.com, which has been bought by TD Ameritrade at $600 million, and the latter has been Intuit to buy at $170 million. In July this year, LearnVest completed a new round of funding, raising 19 million of billions of dollars and raising a total of $24.5 million trillion. LearnVest recently released subscriptions that have exceeded expectations. Our valuation of LearnVest is 100 million dollars.

30.Stack Exchange

Latest valuation: USD 80 million

Last year's valuation: unknown

Business profile: Question and answer website platform

Company CEO: Chor Spolsky (Joel Spolsky)

Investor: Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Spark Capital

Analysis: Stack Exchange is a question and answer website platform, financed 12 million dollars in March 2011, we estimate the company's valuation is about 75 million dollars. (OAK)

 

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