SV VC Investment: Trends

and Perspectives 11.23.14

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SV Hottest Startups 2014

- Bitcoin payment platform - $9M investment raised

Snapchat

-most powerful startup in the year

-started generating revenue,

-Declined 300M offer from facebook

- Declined 400M offer from Google

-Smart smoke detector- Raised $ 25,000

- Wants to be 1 of top 10 websites in US

Ride sharing program (ie. Uber) , approved from CA

-Healthcare insurance startups, NY based -Raised 40M to launch

-Y combinator alumni-Backed by googlewallet - not launched yet

-Budget Management app. -Raised 5M by Citigroup executives

-3 Billion daily views- 25 M raised for investment

-21M monthly visitors -Sharing unique contents

-Mobile app/ solution co-building community-Revenue sharing among the builders

- Finland originated Startup- Liquid Based organic food

- Enable anybody to build large scale, real time web application - Y-Com alumni- 1 M revenue in 6months

Few Interesting Facts

• Most startups don’t earn a profit. That’s true even when they earn significant topline revenues, and even in capital-efficient sectors (like software) where the cost to start a company have declined meaningfully in recent years.

• 22 % of startups have 1+ women on their founding team.

• 46% percent of startups have 1+foreign born persons on their founding team.

SV VC Investment

Seed Grown 7-29% for 5 Yrs- Series A also increased from 23-30%

Dollars Grow: 2013 (5 Yr’s High)

SV Exits: Growing IPO Trends-Since 2010, Consistently VC backed exit in SV.-2013 was peak and highest - Major Exit Deals are as

following:

-VC-backed tech IPOs increasing.

-4% in 2009 -> 12% of all SV Exit in 2013

1) Facebook (IPO)2) Twitter (IPO)3) Zynga (IPO)4) Workday (IPO)5) Veeva Systems (IPO)