London's hottest 3 start ups in 2015

Which  industry verticals  are venture funds most likely to invest in

London’s investors list an average of 13 market  verticals tags each and are most interested in the large general markets like  (404), Consumer Internet (367), Enterprise Software (266) and E-Commerce (215). The most popular markets for London’s investors:

1)DELIVEROO 76-78 Charlotte Street, London W1T 4QS

 Deliveroo drivers collect the food and deliver it "usually seven to eight minutes after it leaves the kitchen".Its a QS food ordering system as well as provides logistical support to fast food giants as well as neighbourhood stores.Orders can be delivered only via tablet ( android and iOS app). Its present in ten UK cities -- as well as Dublin, Paris and Berlin -- Deliveroo raised £16m in January

and plans to expand into 30 cities by year end

Co Founders:Will Shu and Greg Orlowski

 2)IMPROBABLE 20 Farringdon Road, London EC1M 3HE 

Improbable calls itself as an enabler of connecting gaming enthusiasts online . Its vision is to  create vast online games with thousands of players playing across virtual worlds.The company is using the " technique of "distributed systems" used in high-frequency trading and applying them to video games.
 the company recently announced $20 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz.

Co-founders:  Cambridge graduates Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead

3)WORLDREMIT 66 Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UD Worldremit is your typical money exchange services, much like western union. However WorldRemit makes the process easier while charging lower commission than high-street banks. The company already has raised fund to the tune of raised $100 million in February from Technology Crossover Ventures and Accel, with plans to expand into the US and worldwide The World Bank estimates that international money transfers will hit $646 billion in 2015.

Co-founders :Having a former UN advisor as a co-founder surely helps . Its founded by  former UN adviser Ismail Ahmed.

What are the worlds biggest internet companies across each nation

Google is USA, and the worlds biggest  internet company valued at $410billion

Tencent  is China's biggest  internet company valued at $154billion

 Mxit  is South Africa's biggest  internet company valued at $48billion

Naver is South Korea's biggest Internet Company with a valuation of $27billion

 Yandex is Russia's biggest  internet company valued at $14billion

The Biggest Internet Company in Britain  is Asos valued at 13billion USD

The Biggest Internet Company in Israel  Checkpoint, valued at 13billion USD

The Biggest Internet Company in Germany  is Rocket Internet ,valued at 6.8billion USD

The Biggest Internet Company in Argentina is Mercadolibre which is valued at $6.3billion

The above chart  published by economist magazine shows the top  consumer Internet companies across each nations .The data  depicts the  valuations of internet companies across the top 10 nations reflect the valuation  across the top 10 nations. 

Of the 50 countries they examined, 30 have at least one internet company worth more than $1 billion. The internet firms  outside America and China are still relatively small: Google’s market capitalization, for instance, is bigger than the value of the top internet firms in all other 48 countries combined. And worryingly for Europe, of the top five countries with firms with the highest valuations, none is European—but three are Asian.

Lists of 36 US software start ups ,with a valuation of $1 billion and above

US Start ups based on cloud that are among the are the top 10 biggest software start ups with highest valuation

the complete list  of US based software start ups with equity and VC funding that are worth more a billion USD .Among the top 3 are PALANTIR and DROPBOX

As of October 2015:PALANTIR

Latest valuation:$20.0b (October 2015)

Total equity funding:$1.6b

Valuation-to-funding: 12.8 to 1

As of October 2015: DROPBOX

Latest valuation:$10.0b (January 2014)

Total equity funding:$607m

Valuation-to-funding: 16.5 to 1

Mobile Payment company Square gets a scare before its IPO

These are the top 10 highest paid jobs

via Statista

Jack Dorsey’s challenge to raise money for his mobile payment business just make harder.

Squares q3,2015 loss (third-quarter )was $53.9 million — the largest quarterly loss since at least the fourth quarter of 2013, which is the furthest back the company disclosed Monday in its amended regulatory filing to go public.

Square 's Q3 financials showed a $53.9 million net loss on $332.2 million in revenue. Those figures represent slower revenue growth and faster loss growth than in the year-earlier period However Square rides on a business model that seems to be Robust as it enables merchants to process card payments on smartphones and tablets, offering both the hardware and the software necessary to do so. In 2014, the company processed payments worth $23.8 billion, generating revenue of $850 million.

start ups by US states and industry

The Chart shows Decline in start ups in US

 Growth in "start ups" by US states and Industry .Only the  Fintech industry recorded a  growth in start ups by over 5%. While services, wholesale, manufacturing and transportation and logistics recorded negative growth rates

top 20 global billion dollar ecommerce start ups by valuation

These are the top 20 global ecommerce start ups

Billion dollar ecommerce start ups h

source : WSJ

list of ecommerce start ups with valution above  1billion USD

The billion dollar ecommerce start ups is led by Indian Start up Flipkart which is valued at 15billion USD.The chinese group company Meituan  ranks second with a valuation of 7billion USD which is a group-buying website specializing in localized consumer services. Snapdeal another indian ecommerce start up  ranks third with a valuation of 5billion USD

Luxemberg based Global Fashion online ranks 4th, valued at $3.4billion. Chinese based online  apparel brand VANCL ranks 5th and is valued at $3billion.

Fanatics, based out of jacksonville, Florida is an online retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise ( which was acquired by Kynetic ranks 6th and is valued at $3billion

European tech start ups with the highest valuations

These are the top 10 European start ups with highest valuation

Spotify, Global Fashion group and Delivery hero are among the top 3 European start ups with the highest valuation.

Spotify is valued at $8.5billion with a total equity funding of $1.0billion,
The global fashion group is valued at $3.5billlion with a equity of $1.5billion.
Delivery Hero ranks number 3 most valued start up with 3.1billion USD  having been funded to the extent of 1.3billion USD

US top 3 billion dollar start up valuation exceed $95billion

These are the top 10 highest valued start ups

source : Wsj

The top 3 start ups  in US is now valued at a combined $95 billion. Uber leads the list with $51billion  followed by  Airbnb which is valued at  $25.5billion while Palantir is valued at $20billion

Snapchat and SpaceX is respectively valued $16billion and $12billion .

Meanwhile in terms of available funding these 5 top start up companies  has been funded combined upto the tune of $16billion. Effectively the  start up funding to valuation ratio for these top 5 companies is 5 times.

10 biggest technology start ups in terms of valuation

The biggest start ups by valuation

For a start up, being a unicorn ( over  $1 billion valuation )was considered a massive success for tech startups. But in recent years that one billion seems to be a history, as billion-dollar valuations are almost starting to feel routine rather a norm in tech industry.The start up darling continues to be the cab aggregator site UBER which in the last few months, once more raise its equity funding to $7.4 billion. UBER is now  worth over $50billion, and is valued currently with  $51 billion, according to statista

That is double the worth of Airbnb, which is third in the ranking of the world’s top 10 startups with a valuation of  $25 billion 

Xiaomi which has over the last one year notched up impressive marketshare is now valued at $46 billion 

Snapchat ranks 5th in the list with $16billion valuation meanwhile Indian eCommerce  marketplace Flipkart is valued at $15billion, out of  total funding  of $billion it received 

the biggest women powered :start ups : Theranos

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ELIZABETH HOLMES:  The women behind the biggest disruption in the Biotech industry whose personal estimate of wealth stands at $4.5billion and she is just  31, and resides Paulo Alto California

TURNING POINT: Holmes uncle died early due to blood cancer which led to her dropping out of her sophomore year at Stanford University to launch a blood testing firm " THERANOS" a medical diagnostics company

 THE BIG IDEA :the 19-year-old chemical engineering major started a company to develop her idea for a hand-held medical device, which  read  the amount of blood and produce a real-time assessment of how a drug is interacting with the body in  just one minute .THERANOS blood testing kit s cheaper and faster besides being more accurate and less painful than other methods and tests, is now available at 41 Theranos labs in Walgreens . Theranos recently received a $400 million from venuture investors

DISRUPTIVE QUOTIENT  :Theranos seeks to integrate technology, medical systems and healthcare technology to make medecine and healthcare delivery systems more personalized

VC FUNDING TIMELINE  : VC  Funding at Theranos has been quite active

•  $45M / Venture Jul 8, 2010 
•  $32.4M / Series C Nov 17, 2006 Investors: ATA Ventures Continental Ventures Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Tako Ventures The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust 
• $9.1M / Series B Feb 21, 2006 Investors: ATA Ventures Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
•  $5.8M / Series A Feb 11, 2005 Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) - 

source ; crunchbase/Fortune

Where are the worlds biggest Ikea stores located

The Making of  "Ready to assemble "furniture brand  IKEA 

The world's five largest IKEA stores are: 

1)Gwangmyeong, Seoul Capital Area, South Korea: 59,000 m2 (640,000 sq ft) 

2)Stockholm Kungens Kurva, Sweden: 55,200 m2 (594,000 sq ft) 

3)Shanghai Baoshan, China: 55,032 m2 (592,360 sq ft) 

4)Shanghai Pudong Beicai, China: 49,400 m2 (532,000 sq ft) 

5)Wuxi, China: 49,117 m2 (528,690 sq ft)

  The  Lesseer known 10 facts on Ikea 

1. The founder or Ikea  was Ingvar Kamprad in the year 1943 
2. Number  of people that went to an IKEA store last year in 2014 : 522 million 
3. Number of IKEA stores worldwide 301
4. As  June 2015, IKEA owns and operates 353 stores in 46 countries 
5. The first Möbel-IKÉA store was opened in Älmhult, Småland, in 1958, while the first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway (1963) and Denmark (1969)
6.  Number of countries that have an IKEA 41 
7. Total number of BILLY book cases sold worldwide 41 million 
8. The number of products the website of ikea contains : 12,000
9. Number of home furnishing articles carried by IKEA 9,500 
10. Number of meatballs served at IKEA every year 150 million 
11. Revenue made by IKEA in the U.S. annually :$2.9 billion 
12.  Number of IKEA employees worldwide 120,000 
13. Number of IKEA workers in the U.S. 11,000 
14. Average number of new IKEA stores that open each year worldwide 15 

10 things about Bain Capital and its legacy and its investments

 
 What you did not about Bain Capital : know these 10 trivia facts  and how  the company is incubating several start up companies

Bain Capital

1. Year in which it was  Founded :1973, 
2. Number of full time employees : 900+
3. Investor capital  Bain manages  as of date : :$75billion
4.  Bain Capital was founded in 1984 by Bain & Company partners Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, and Eric Kriss, 
5.  Bain Cap specialises in : private equity, venture capital, credit products 
6. Investments  across industries :Bain Capital invests across a range of industry sectors and geographic regions. 
7. Bains Total Assets: $66,000,000,000 
8. Initial Investment Funding Raised $37,000,000
9. Earliest Bain's investment : earliest and most notable venture investments was  "Staples, Inc., the office supply retailer. 
10. Bains  acquisitions and investments : Along with Thomas H. Lee Partners, acquired Experian, the consumer credit reporting business of TRW Inc., in 1996 for more than $1 billion.

10 Internet start up founders in 20's with net worth above $50million

These  Toy boys have  founded their companies when they were just 20. During which they already made giant size companies multi million companies. Find out these movers and shakers

1.Mark Zuckerberg  : 28 
founder of Facebook :
Net worth :$13.3 Billion

2.Andrew Gower: 29
founder of Runescape  :
Net worth :$650 Million

3.Chad Hurley  31
founder of Youtube
Net worth : $300 Million

4.Blake Ross & David Hyatt: 23
founder :Mozilla
Net worth :$120 Million

5.Andrew Michael: 30
founder of Fast Hosts
Net worth : $120 Million

6.Angelo Sotira :27
founder : Deviant Art
 Net worth :$75 Million

7. John Vechey
founder :PopCap Games
Net worth :29 $60 Million

8. Alexander Levin: 24
founder Image Shack
Net worth: $56 Million

9.Jake Nickell: 29
founder :Threadless
Net worth :$50 Million 10.

10.Greg Tseng &Johann Schleier-Smith: 28
founders:Tagged 28
Net worth :$45 Million 

start up failures :how many start ups went bankrupt last decade : 2005 to 2015

source:Small Business Association, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Census Bureau Research 

This chart shows how many start ups went belly up and with how many employees it went bust

start up went belly up

start up went belly up