VC funding and Equity Investors behind Airbnb : 10 facts

These are the top 10 facts behind funding of Airbnb

Airbnb based out of California  is as on  October 2015 valued at   $25.5b  with   a total equity funding of  $2.3b , with a valuation-to-funding ratio of : 11.1 to 1. So far it has  been funded a total of 8 rounds

Airbnb was founded in 2008 by its  CEO & Co Founder : Brian Chesky

Competitors: HomeAway, Orbitz, Diamond Resorts, Wimdu

List of  Investors/VC fund Houses

1. Andreessen Horowitz,
2. Axel Springer, 
3. Baillie Gifford, 
4. China Broadband Capital, 
5. DST Group,
6.  Dragoneer Investment,
7.  ENIAC Ventures, 
8. Fidelity Investments,
9. Founders Fund,
10. General Atlantic, 
11. General Catalyst Partners, 
12. GGV Capital, 
13. Greylock Partners,
14.  Hillhouse Capital Group,
15.  Horizon Ventures,
16.  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 
17. Sequoia Capital, 
18. Temasek Holdings, 
19. Tiger Global Management, 
20. TPG Growth, T. Rowe Price, 
21. Wellington Management,
22. Y Combinator, 
23. Youniversity Ventures

List of top 20 VC funding firms in London

Accel (www.accel.com) - global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage. Invested in Facebook, Macromedia, Walmart.com. The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai 

Advent Ventures (www.adventventures.com) - Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. Based in London, it invested in video website Dailymotion

Allegro Capital (www.allegro-capital.com) - London-based $50M fund focused on seed and early-stage investments in the fashion and retail space (brands + technologies) Amadeus Capital Partners

Amadeus capital (www.amadeuscapital.com) - Based in Cambridge and London, they invest across the technology spectrum in industries that include communications and networking hardware and software, media, ecommerce, computer hardware and software,

Arts Alliance (www.artsalliance.co.uk) - invests in high growth companies ,particular focus on technology-enabled services ,including media & entertainment, mobile services, retail & logistics, marketing services, outsourcing and energy

Atomico (www.atomico.com) - Atomico is a London-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennström, a co-founder of Skype

 Balderton Capital (www.balderton.com) - leading venture investor in the EU, who invest opn early stage and have nearly $2 billion of committed capital

Dawn Capital (www.dawncapital.co.uk) - early stage technology and IT businesses investor. Invested in advertising.com and Virgin Media.

DN Capital (www.dncapital.com) - London based, focused on digital media and software. EC1 Capital (www.ec1capital.com) - London based early stage tech VC Eden Ventures (www.edenventures.co.uk) - London and Bath based, seed investors in technology and IT businesses

Fidelity Growth Equity Partners (www.fidelitygrowthpartners.eu) - London-based venture capital arm of asset manager

Index Ventures (www.indexventures.com) - Well established VC fund based in London, Geneva and Silicon Valley, investing in Life Sciences and Information Technology. Famous for investments in Skype, Lovefilm, Betfair and MySQL.

 JamJar Investments (www.jamjarinvestments.com) -  JamJar Investments is  based in London . They back early stage consumer products and services, including both tech and non tech businesses.

Frog Capital (www.frogcapital.com) - Frog Capital  invests and specialise in business specialising in
early and growth stage venture capital and private equity investments

(www.mmcventures.com) - MMC are a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high growth, UK companies

London record 581,000 new start ups in a year, one startup in every minute

London recorded  581,000 new companies  which were founded last year; more than one start up a minute

Research from national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain,  shows that 581,173 businesses were registered with Companies House last year.The above chart shows UK's cities hotspots where entrepreneurial spirit thrives . This  new record beats the previous all-time high of 526,446 in 2013, up from 484,224 start-ups formed in 2012.

1.  London  topped as UK 's biggest entrepreneurial  and start up Hotspots  creating a record 184,671 companies
2. Birmingham has become the leading start-up hub outside London, with 18,337 company registrations.
3. Manchester is the next biggest start-up zone, with 13,054.  your post or banner displayed here for $10 a day .Click here to know more

the highest funded consumer electronic startups

consumer electronics start ups with  highest funding

source : seedtable