User talk:CNMall41/Index Ventures
Index Ventures has raised several venture funds, including Index Ventures I through VIII[1][2] and Index Growth 1, 2 and 3.[3][4][5] In 2018 the firm raised a total of $1.65 billion for an early-stage investment fund and a growth fund.[6][7]
Examples include:
- Beamery[8]
- Betfair, now Flutter Entertainment[9][10]
- Bird Company[11][12]
- Blue Bottle Coffee (acquired by Nestlé for $425 million)[13][14]
- Criteo[15]
- Codecademy[16]
- Dropbox[17][18]
- Duo Security (being acquired by Cisco for $2.35 billion)[19][20]
- Etsy[15]
- Facebook[21]
- IZettle (acquired by PayPal for $2.2bn)[22]
- Just Eat[15]
- King (held an initial public offering, subsequently acquired by Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion)[23][15]
- Last.fm (acquired by CBS for $280 million)[24]
- Moleskin[25]
- MySQL (acquired by Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle, for $1 billion)[26]
- SCM Microsystems (now Identiv)[27]
- Skype (acquired by eBay for $2.6 billion[28] and later acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion).[29]
- Sonos[19][30]
- Supercell (acquired by Tencent for $8.6 billion)[31][32]
- Tines[33]
- Trello (acquired by Atlassian for $425 million)[34]
- Wiz[35][36]
- Zendesk[15]
- Zuora[37][38]
Other investments include Adyen,[17] Abacus.AI, Aurora,[39] Citymapper,[40] Deliveroo,[17] Farfetch,[17] Funding Circle,[17] Gatsby,[41] Intercom,[42] Motorway,[43] Notion,[44] Patreon,[45] Personio,[46] Plaid,[47] Revolut,[48] Robinhood,[37] Roblox,[49] Ubiquity6,[50] Slack.,[51] and Weaviate.[52]
References
- ^ "The Index Ventures hits €350m for latest tech-focused fund". AltAssets. June 18, 2012.
- ^ "Index Ventures Has a New, $550 Million Fund, and a New Partner". TechCrunch. February 3, 2016.
- ^ "Armed With New Fund, Index Ventures Hunts for the Next Billion-Dollar Tech Firm". Forbes. November 11, 2011.
- ^ "Index Ventures raises $706M for new growth fund". VentureBeat. April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Index Ventures Amasses $1.25 Billion to Back Tech Startups". Bloomberg. February 3, 2016.
- ^ "Index Ventures Has Been on a Run. Now It's Raising Funds to Keep It Up". The New York Times. July 9, 2018.
- ^ "One investing firm is behind a string of this year's big money-making moments in Silicon Valley". recode. August 5, 2018.
- ^ "Index leads $5M Series A in Beamery's 'CRM for recruitment'". TechCrunch. April 12, 2017.
- ^ "Venture Firms Hit The Jackpot With Betfair". The Wall Street Journal. October 25, 2010.
- ^ "Paddy Power and Betfair merger agreed". The Guardian. Press Association. September 8, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
- ^ Griswold, Alison (October 3, 2019). "Electric scooter company Bird raises $275 million, with a new focus on profitability". Quartz. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ Moskvitch, Katia (2018-10-15). "How Index Ventures became Europe's startup success factory". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Nestlé Targets High-End Coffee by Taking Majority Stake in Blue Bottle". The New York Times. September 14, 2017.
- ^ "Nestle is Said to Pay $425 Million to Buy Blue Bottle Coffee". Bloomberg. September 14, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Index Ventures Raises New $550M Early-Stage Fund For Europe, The US And Israel". TechCrunch. June 10, 2014.
- ^ Huspeni, Andrea. "Codecademy Just Raised $10 Million From Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins And Richard Branson". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ a b c d e "Index Ventures is coming in force to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin this December". TechCrunch. September 5, 2017.
- ^ "Shares of Dropbox surge in first day of trading". ABC News. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Sonos Confirms $25 Million Investment From Index Ventures". TechCrunch. March 12, 2010.
- ^ "Duo Security raises $70 million at a valuation north of $1 billion". TechCrunch. October 18, 2017.
- ^ "Index has raised an additional $550 million to invest in US, European, and Israeli tech startups". Business Insider. February 4, 2016.
- ^ Bosilkovski, Igor. "PayPal Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Ever By Buying Swedish Startup iZettle For $2.2 Billion". Forbes. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ "Activision Blizzard Becomes 'Largest Game Network in the World' With Candy Crush Dev Buyout". GameSpot. February 23, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
- ^ "CBS Acquires Europe's Last.fm for $280 million". TechCrunch. May 30, 2007.
- ^ "Belgium's D'Ieteren agrees to buy 41 percent of Moleskine". Reuters. 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
- ^ "Former MySQL CEO Martin Mickos joins Index Ventures as EIR". TechCrunch. January 8, 2010.
- ^ "25 Rising Stars What will the world look like a decade or two from now? Who knows? But these young business leaders surely will have helped shape it". CNN Money. 2001-05-14. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
- ^ "EBay Buys Skype for $2.6 Billion". PC World. September 12, 2005. Archived from the original on November 14, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "Why Microsoft Is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion". GigaOM. May 9, 2011.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
TC3was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever?". Forbes. May 6, 2013.
- ^ Osawa, Juro; Needleman, Sarah E. (June 21, 2016). "Tencent Seals Deal to Buy 'Clash of Clans' Developer Supercell for $8.6 Billion". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- ^ O'Hear, Steve (11 December 2019). "Accel and Index back Tines, as the cybersecurity startup adds another $11M to its Series A". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (January 9, 2017). "Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
- ^ Jeans, David. "Zero To $100 Million In Nine Months: Index, Sequoia Back Cybersecurity Company Led By Former Microsoft Execs". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ Wiz. "Wiz Emerges from Stealth with $100 Million Series A Financing and a Mission to Reinvent Cloud Security". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
MidasEuropewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Zuora IPO Pops 43% As Cloud Software Company Raises $154 Million". Investor's Business Daily. April 12, 2018.
- ^ "Self-Driving Car Startup Aurora Could Start a 'Renaissance in the Transportation Industry'". Fortune. February 28, 2018.
- ^ "Citymapper raises $40m with funding from Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital". CityAM. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ^ "Gatsby, Website-Building Startup Backed By Index Ventures, Raises $28 Million". Forbes. May 27, 2020.
- ^ "The Daily Startup: Index Ventures Backs Intercom in $50 Million Series D". The Wall Street Journal. April 7, 2016.
- ^ Butcher, Mike (2021-11-29). "Secondhand car auction platform Motorway hits unicorn status after $190M raise with Index, ICONIQ". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50 Million". The New York Times. April 1, 2020.
- ^ "Crowdfunding firm Patreon turns to VCs for $15m funding round". The Guardian. June 23, 2014.
- ^ "Personio raises $125M on a $1.7B valuation for an HR platform targeting SMEs". TechCrunch. January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Fintech start-up Plaid raises $250 million at $2.7 billion valuation, adds Mary Meeker to board". CNBC. December 11, 2018.
- ^ "Revolut raises $66 million for its global banking alternative". TechCrunch. July 12, 2017.
- ^ "Roblox Secures $92 Million in Funding". Index Ventures. March 14, 2017.
- ^ "AR startup Ubiquity6 lands $27M Series B to build a more user-friendly augmented reality". August 14, 2018.
- ^ "Slack Raises $200 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation". Fortune. April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Index Ventures Leads $50 Million Investment in AI Startup Weaviate". The Information. April 20, 2023.
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