'unicorn' Tag
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The unicorn game
January 29, 2022It would be easy for me to make hay about this week’s announcement of the decline of Sigfox. My previous fund in France passed up on the opportunity to invest in Sigfox back in the day. My former partner astutely determined that Sigfox’s “boil the ocean” approach to building out a broad-scale IoT network infrastructure […]
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Most valuable startup unicorns
August 19, 2020Since the startup unicorn count has become a metric of governments worldwide, here’s the latest unicorn compilation from the brilliant minds over at CBInsights…
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The unicorn club – update 2020
January 23, 2020My intern Patrick kindly designed this infographic on the current batch of tech unicorns. The figures represent private, venture-backed tech companies with $1 billion valuations. The volume of realized unicorns (i.e. exits for the VCs via IPO or trade sale) are indicated in the sub-text.
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Japan has its successful Unicorn. Next it needs its first Unicorpse.
June 22, 2018[Note: The Japanese version of this piece can be found here: 初のユニコーンを手にした日本、次に必要なのはユニコープス? ] Japan witnessed its first successful unicorn take flight this week in the IPO of Mercari. Since its launch in 2013, Mercari has become Japan’s leading online flea market platform, allowing people to buy and sell secondhand items on a smartphone app with […]
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France has its tech Unicorn. Next it needs its Unicorpse.
September 15, 2015France allegedly crowned its first unicorn last week when BlaBlaCar raised a new funding round led by Insight Venture Partners of $160 million at a post-money valuation of $1.2 billion. Actually, there is some debate on whether BlaBlaCar represents France’s very first unicorn (some argue that Vente-Privée should hold that title, but that’s beside the […]
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The billion dollar startup club
November 25, 2014The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource recently started publishing a list of companies that are valued at $1 billion or more by venture-capital firms. Here it is in graphical format (credit to J.Peng). The qualification criteria for the club are: privately held companies that have at least VC firm in the capital and […]