Top 100 of the world's most valuable internet startups

Top 100 of the world's most valuable internet startups

Beijing Time September 24 news, according to foreign media reports, science and technology blog site Silicon Alley Insider (hereinafter referred to as "SAI") Thursday selected the world's most valuable 100 internet innovation enterprises. Facebook, the social-networking site, is the undisputed first in the list. Sia has given Facebook a 25 billion-dollar valuation this year, far exceeding its 6.5 billion dollar valuation last year.

The Sai points out that it is never easy to value private companies, even if insiders and venture capitalists with access to financial data are not easy, and well-informed outsiders can only play guessing games. But it is also one of the social topics that Silicon Valley never declines. In 2008, Sia selected 25 private companies with the highest market capitalisation, expanded the scale to 50 in 2009 and expanded to 100 this year. Sia a rigorous selection of more than 300 companies, which was ultimately based on the stock price multiplied by total equity.

In this year's list, Taobao, Tudou and Youku from China are entering the list.

The following is a detailed list of 100 of the world's most valuable Internet innovation companies selected by Sia:

First: Facebook

Valuation: USD 25 billion

Last year's valuation: 25 billion dollars

Business: Facebook is the world's largest social networking site with more than 500 million users, up 66% from last year's 300 million users. According to compete, the Internet traffic Monitoring agency, Facebook is now the world's third-largest network asset, based on the number of independent visitors.

Investor: Microsoft (USD 246 million), Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing (USD 60 million), Greylock and Meritech Capital (USD 25 million), Accel (USD 12.8 million), PayPal founder Thiel Peter Thiel (USD 500,000), European founders Fund (USD 15 million), Russian DST (200 million USD), Triplepoint capital (USD 100 million).

Analysis: Facebook is dominating the internet. Facebook's revenue last year was estimated at $700 million trillion. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the company, said the company's revenue this year would reach $1 billion trillion to $1.1 billion trillion. Based on revenue multiplied by 25 times times, it is estimated that Facebook is valued at about 25 billion dollars. In addition, elevation, a private-equity firm, bought 2.4 million shares of Facebook in the unlisted stock Exchange, which has valued Facebook at $23 billion trillion. Facebook currently has a valuation of $34 billion in the Sharespost Stock exchange market. Facebook's valuations have surpassed ebay's market capitalisation.

Second: Social game developer Zynga

Valuation: USD 5 billion

Last year's valuation: 1.2 billion dollars

Investor: Zynga has raised 510 million of billions of dollars. The company raised 10 million dollars in the first round of financing, including venture capital firms Avalon Ventures, Clarium, Foundry Group, Pilot Group, Union Square Ventures, Angel investor Hoffman (Reid Hoffman), PayPal founder Thiel (Peter Thiel), Pittman (Bob Pittman), Andy La Selle (Andy Russell), Brad Filde (Brad Feld). Zynga's second round of funding raised 29 million of dollars, including venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Groupavalon Ventures. The company raised 180 million dollars for its third round of financing, including Tiger Global (Tigers globa), institutional Venture, Anderson Hollowitz Fund (Andreessen Horowitz) and DST. The company raised 300 million dollars in its fourth round of financing, with investors including SoftBank and Google.

Analysis: Zynga is currently a leading player in the global social gaming industry, which has more than 50 million active users. Including advertising and virtual gift sales, Zynga's revenue this year is expected to exceed $500 million trillion, up 150% from last year's 200 million dollar. Many gaming companies have a market capitalisation of about 5 to 10 times times their revenues. Zynga is valued at $5 billion, considering that Zynga is still growing fast, multiplying by 10 times times its revenue.

Third: Wikipedia (Wikipedia)

Valuation: USD 5 billion

Business: Encyclopedia of User Manufacturing

Investor: Vinode Kosala (Vinod Khosla), Open Society Association (open powering Cato), Alfred p. Sloan Foundation, Omidyar receptacle

Analysis: Wikipedia is a non-profit website. But as an asset, the site is highly valued. The current monthly flow of Wikipedia is expected to reach 10 billion to 14 billion. By conservative estimates, Wikipedia will also have more than 100 billion of its annual traffic. If every thousand of traffic generates 5 of dollars in conservative revenue, Wikipedia's potential revenue will reach more than $500 million trillion. According to the expected 10 times-fold calculation of this revenue, the value of Wikipedia should be 5 billion dollars.

Four: Skype

Valuation: USD 4 billion

Business: Internet telephony and SMS

Investor: ebay sold about 70% of Skype's shares last year at a 2.75 billion dollar valuation. Private-equity firm Silver Lake led a consortium involved in the deal.

Analysis: Skype's revenue for the first half of this year was 400 million dollars, with a full-year revenue of about 800 million dollars. The value of Skype is about $4 billion, if calculated at 5 times times the expected revenue. Potential buyers of Skype include Cisco-T, Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

Part Five: Craigslist

Valuation: USD 3 billion

Business: Classified Ads

Investor: ebay won 25% per cent of the company in 2004 with more than 30 million dollars.

Analysis: As one of the newspaper killers, Craigslist is known for charging cheap advertising fees. We believe that Craigslist's revenue will reach at least 1 billion dollars if more advertising fees are charged. Craigslist is expected to have a revenue of around 150 million dollars this year.

Sixth: Twitter

Valuation: USD 3 billion

Business: Mini Blog

Analysis: Twitter currently has 90 million daily daily message shipments, up more than 450% from less than 20 million a year ago. Meanwhile, Twitter's traffic grew by only 100% in the same period. Twitter's latest round of financing is valued at $1 billion trillion. We expect Twitter's current 3 billion dollar valuation to be a reasonable valuation. Twitter's sharespost in the unlisted stock exchange market is valued at $3.6 billion trillion.

12th: Taobao

Valuation: USD 1.5 billion

Analysis: Taobao currently has more than 210 million registered users. The site's total retail sales in 2009 exceeded 29 billion dollars. Taobao currently has more than 40 million active users. According to the Internet Traffic monitoring agency Alexa statistics show that Taobao is the world's largest number of visits to one of the 20 sites.

Alibaba Group said that Taobao's total retail sales this year is expected to increase by one times, to 400 billion yuan (about 58 billion U.S. dollars). In a report, investment bank Goldman Sachs estimates that Taobao's revenue this year will reach 500 million to 600 million dollars. By 2 to 4 times times revenue, Taobao's market capitalisation is about $1.5 billion trillion.

15th: Tudou

Valuation: USD 1.5 billion

Business: May become "China's YouTube"

Investor: IDG China, Granite Global Ventures, JAFCO, General Catalyst

Analysis: Tudou currently has 16% of the network video market share in China, after the 20% share of Youku. Wang, Tudou's chief executive, has said the company's network video advertising revenues will reach 1 billion yuan a year (about 150 million U.S. dollars). Wang also said that the company's network video advertising revenue next year may increase by one or even twice times, to 300 million to 450 million U.S. dollars. Based on revenue multiplied by 10 times times, Tudou's current valuation is 1.5 billion dollars.

The following are listed as the 7th to 100th-ranked companies:

7, French E-commerce website vente-privee

8, Russia's largest search engine Yandex

9. Gaming website Betfair

10, business social networking site LinkedIn

11. Groupon

12. Taobao (valued 1.5 billion USD)

13, Mozilla Firefox browser developers web site

14. U.S. Vacation Rental Information service provider HomeAway

15, Tudou (Tudou)

16, the world's largest domain name registration company GoDaddy

17, video site Hulu

18, network advertising company Adknowledge

19, recruitment job Site The ladders

20, dating site eharmony

21, Gilt Groupe

22. Demand Media

23, Palantir Tech

24, Coupons.com

25, LivingSocial

26, Yelp

27, Youku (Youku)

28. Active Receptacle

29, Pandora

30, Mediabank

31, Kayak

32, Indeed

33, Quantcast

34, Habbo (Sulake)

35, Chegg

36, Brightcove

37, Quidsi

38, LoveFilm

39, Idealab

40, FreshDirect

41, Etsy

42, King.com

43, Zazzle

44. Vibrant Media

45, Thumbplay

46, Yodle

47, Riot Games

48, SecondMarket

49. Rubicon Project

50, Ozon

51, Ideeli

52. Glam Media

53. Federated Media

54, Turn Inc.

55, TrialPay

56, thought Equity Motion

57, Tagged

58, Sugar, Inc.

59. Specific Media

60, Ning

61, Miniclip

62, CafePress

63, Automattic

64, Angie ' s List

65, Huffington Post

66, Adenyo

67, Meebo

68, Myyearbook

69. Tremor Media

70, DataPipe

71, Ustream

72, Undertone NX

73, Synacor

74. Gawker Media

75, CafeMom

76. Buddy Media

77, Next jump

78, Break Media

79, Amobee

80, Betaworks

81, Scanscout Receptacle

82, Rent the runway

83, Recyclebank

84, PlentyofFish.com

85, Oodle

86, Media6degrees

87, Foursquare

88. Linden Lab

89, Eventbrite

90, Digg

91, Blurb

92. Decoupled World Books

93, Playspan

94, Ngmoco

95, KickApps

96, Buzz Media

97, Thrillist

98, Hi5

99, Zillow

100, Auditude