top 20 start ups funded by Fidelity investment

 

The above list prepared and verified by Crunchbase shows the list of total VC funded start ups where Fidelity investments has a stake . From Airbnb, Pinterest, Snapchat , Uber and Hootsuite it is also present across medical and Biotech start ups like  Pax labs and Blue Apron

 Fidelity Investment  has  earlier been known for funding  many unrelated businesses, including a luxury hotel and Veritude, a temporary employment agency.. Fidelity has also strategically invested in the telecom/managed services/data center industries, having incubated COLT Telecom Group in Europe, MetroRED in South America, and KVH in Japan. (Since 2008, all MetroRED ownership has been completely divested.)Meanwhile Fidelity ventures Fidelity Ventures is its venture capital arm. Fidelity International Limited (FIL), was an affiliate founded in 1969, serving international markets and the rest of the world;

10 statistics on How Linkedin struck gold and disrupted the hiring industry

Linkedin was launched on 5th May, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and 5 team members. Click here to see complete linkedin stats

The  science of  the making of Linkedin : How to win friends and influence employers 

1. Linkedin users (%)  with more than 500 connections:                           41
2.  LinkedIn  membership after one year of operations :               4,500 
3. Number of Languages which Linkedin Supports:                           24 
4. Number of Employees which works at Linkedin :                      7,600 
5. Total number of LinkedIn users :                                                313,000,000 
6. Number of monthly unique visitors to LinkedIn:                     87,000,000
7.  Professional  hired via  ads on  LinkedIn:                                   35,522,000 
8.  interviews  received from Linkedin :                                           122,070,000
9. Number of  linkedin account is created   seconds:                                1
10. Number of full time employees in Linkedin:                                    7600 
11. Cost of  Linkedin stock  per share at its IPO debut :                          $45 
12. Cost of Linkedin Share after the first day of trading :                        $94 (109%
13. Linkedin  revenues from non US Countries in percentage                30%
14. Percentage of Linkedin Subscribers who are paid members:           16%
15. The increase in percentage of Linkedin company created pages:              33%

source :Forbes/wiki/linkedin annual report