InsideSales.com provides a cloud-based platform for sales reps to predict and accelerate a company's revenue growth.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $32 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $1.342 billion
Valuation increase: 3,941%
Total raised: $200 million from Salesforce Ventures, Microsoft, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
AppNexus powers and optimizes online advertising spending.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $191 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $1.501 billion
Valuation increase: 584%
Total raised: $313.17 million from Silicon Valley Bank, Venrock Associates, and First Round Capital, among other investors
Box stores files online for personal and business accounts.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $757 million
Last private valuation: $2.25 billion
Valuation increase: 97%
Total raised: $583.93 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz
MongoDB Inc. develops the free open-sourced MongoDB NoSQL database.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $190 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $1.72 billion
Valuation increase: 705%
Total raised: $311.54 million from New Enterprise Associates, Goldman Sachs, T. Rowe Price, and Fidelity, among others.
WhatsApp is the creator of a free worldwide messaging app. The company was purchased by Facebook in October 2014.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $40 million
Last valuation at time of Facebook acquisition: $1.576 billion
Valuation increase: 3712%
Total raised: $61.1 million from Sequoia Capital
Prosper Marketplace is a peer-to-peer lending site where people can invest in personal loans or request money.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $81 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $1.702 billion
Valuation increase: 1890%
Total raised: $360.9 million from Sequoia Capital, Credit Suisse, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and the Omidyar Network, among others.
Domo helps companies visualize what's happening with their business.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $127 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $1.8 billion
Valuation increase: 1219%
Total raised: $614.77 million from Benchmark, BlackRock, GGV Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, among others.
AppDynamics tracks how a company's applications are performing.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $46 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $1.742 billion
Valuation increase: 3613%
Total raised: $335 million from Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Institutional Venture Partners, among others.
Moderna Therapeutics is developing a new class of drugs using mRNA technology.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $25 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $2.55 billion
Valuation increase: 10,020%
Total raised: $863.90 million from Flagship Ventures, Merck Ventures, and AstraZeneca.
SoFi is a fintech startup that offer below-market-rate student loans and mortgage refinancing.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $8 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $2.575 billion
Valuation increase: 31,988%
Total raised: $1.42 billion from SoftBank Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, and Baseline Ventures, among others
DocuSign enables people to sign and send legal documents in the cloud.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $196 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $2.767 billion
Valuation increase: 1212%
Total raised: $563.17 million from Comcast Ventures, GV, Accel Partners, and Visa Ventures, among others
Machine Zone is a video game company, known for the hit "Game of War".
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $44 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $2.725 billion
Valuation increase: 6061%
Total raised: $390 million from SV Angel, Menlo Ventures, JP Morgan, Y Combinator, and Baseline Ventures.
Fanatics owns and operates more than 250 e-commerce sites for sports fans.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $174 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $3.118 billion
Valuation increase: 1592%
Total raised: $620 million after its spin-off from eBay. It's late-stage VC investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, and Alibaba Capital Partners.
CloudFlare is a content delivery network that speeds up load times and protects websites against attack.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $80 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $3.078 billion
Valuation increase: 3648%
Total raised: $181 million from Fidelity, Microsoft, Baidu, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, and New Enterprise Associates, among others.
Cloudera helps companies install and maintain data analysis software.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $318 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $3.371 billion
Valuation increase: 860%
Total raised: $1.04 billion from T. Rowe Price, Google Ventures, Accel Partners, and Greylock Partners.
Credit Karma helps people keep track of their credit scores.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $15 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $3.325 billion
Valuation increase: 22621%
Total raised: $370.27 million from Tiger Global Management, Google Capital, and 500 Startups, among others.
Pure Storage sells arrays of high-speed solid state hard drives to the business market.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $248 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $3.57 billion
Valuation increase: 1238%
Total raised: $528 million from T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, and Fidelity, among others
Lending Club is a peer-to-peer lending company that makes it fast to get a small business loan.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $260 million
Last private valuation: $3.662 billion
Valuation increase: 1207%
Total raised: $236.5 million from Google Capital, Foundation Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins.
Slack is a chat app built for the workplace.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $77 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $3.6 billion
Valuation increase: 4452%
Total raised: $546.73 million from Thrive Capital, GGV Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Social Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Tanium gives IT administrators a single console that tells them everything that's happening on all the computers in an organization.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $50 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $3.580 billion
Valuation increase: 6920%
Total raised: $287.33 million from Andreessen Horowitz, TPG Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Institutional Venture Partners.
Founded by Elon Musk, SpaceX is building re-usable rockets for space.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $1.018 billion
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $4.97 billion
Valuation increase: 288%
Total raised: $1.25 billion from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fun, and Fidelity Investments, among others.
Square makes it easy for small businesses to accept credit cards.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $1.606 billion
Last valuation before IPO: $6 billion
Valuation increase: 174%
Total raised: $746.96 million from Khosla Ventures, Visa, and Risvi Traverse Management.
Lyft is competing with Uber to make it easy to get a ride at the push of a button.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $29 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $4.5 billion
Valuation increase: 15382%
Total raised: $2.01 billion from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, General Motors, and Rakuten, among others.
Stemcentrx is studying eliminating stem cells as a cure for cancer.The company was acquired in April 2016 by AbbVie for a reported $10 billion.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $128 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $4.771 billion
Valuation increase: 3539%
Total raised: $550.26 million from Artis Ventures, Fidelity Investments, Sequoia Capital, and Founders Fund, among others.
Dropbox stores files in the cloud.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $4.594 billion
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $10.028 billion
Valuation increase: 18%
Total raised: $1.1 billion from BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price, and Sequoia Capital, among others.
Theranos promises to analyze your blood from a single drop.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $1.122 billion
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $8.427 billion
Valuation increase: 551%
Total raised: $573 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ATA Ventures, and Sandbox Industries, among others.
Pinterest is a photo-collection startup that lets people search for what they love visually.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $266 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $10.467 billion
Valuation increase: 3731%
Total raised: $1.32 billion from Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and Rakuten, among others.
Palantir is a super secretive company that specializes in analyzing big data.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $2.5 billion
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $19.649 billion
Valuation increase: 586%
Total raised: $2.69 billion from BlackRock, In-Q-Tel, Morgan Stanley, and Founders Fund, among others
Airbnb operates an online marketplace that enables people to host guests in their home.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $32 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $23.917 billion
Valuation increase: 1640%
Total raised: $2.49 billion from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Greylock Partners, among others.
Uber makes it easy to hail a car with the tap of a button, and it's also powering the delivery logistics for small businesses and delivering food.
Post-money valuation pre-2012: $60 million
Pre-money valuation in 2016: $50 billion
Valuation increase: 83133%
Total raised: $8.91 billion from Baidu, Goldman Sachs, T. Rowe Price, First Round Capital, and Benchmark, among others.
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