A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek,develop,and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public,startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo-founder. During the beginning,startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure,but a minority of them do go on to become successful and influential,such as unicorns.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm. In January 2019,DFJ Venture,the early-stage team,spun out and formed Threshold Ventures. DFJ Growth continues to be managed by co-founder John Fisher and co-founders Mark Bailey,Randy Glein,and Barry Schuler.
Sequoia Capital Operations,LLC is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park,California which specializes in seed stage,early stage,and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors. As of 2022,the firm had approximately US$85 billion in assets under management.
Brent Shawzin Hoberman is a British entrepreneur and investor. During the dot-com boom,he co-founded lastminute.com with Martha Lane Fox in 1998,where he was CEO from its inception,before selling the business to Sabre in 2005 for $1.1bn.
Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in Boston,Silicon Valley,and San Francisco. Highland has raised over $4 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 280 companies,with 47 IPOs and 134 acquisitions.
Betterment is an American financial advisory company which provides digital investment,retirement and cash management services.
Seedcamp is a European seed-stage venture capital fund,headquartered in London,launched in May 2007 by a group of 30 European investors. The fund's Managing Partners are Reshma Sohoni and Carlos Espinal.
Blockchain.com is a cryptocurrency financial services company. The company began as the first Bitcoin blockchain explorer in 2011 and later created a cryptocurrency wallet that accounted for 28% of bitcoin transactions between 2012 and 2020. It also operates a cryptocurrency exchange and provides institutional markets lending business and data,charts,and analytics.
Carina Tyrrell is a British-Swiss public health physician,investor,philanthropist,and Fellow at the University of Cambridge who was crowned Miss England and Miss United Kingdom in 2014. Tyrrell graduated from the University of Cambridge with first-class honours,featured on the front page of The Times for her work to deliver the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine,and is known for making international news for being the first woman from one of the world's top universities,to participate in Miss World.
Aileen Lee is a U.S. venture capital angel investor and co-founder of Cowboy Ventures.
Andela is a private marketplace for technical talent. Andela focuses on sustainable careers,connecting technologists with long-term engagements,access to international roles,and competitive compensation.
eShares,Inc.,doing business as Carta,Inc.,is a San Francisco,California-based technology company that specializes in capitalization table management and valuation software. The company digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options,warrants,and derivatives to allow companies,investors,and employees to manage their equity and track company ownership. The company also operates CartaX,a private stock exchange.
Abra is a digital asset services company with offices in several countries. The company's extensive service offering includes:Abra Private,an SEC registered investment advisory service focused on high net worth investors and family offices looking to invest in digital assets or borrow against digital asset holdings;Abra Prime,a prime broker for digital asset trading,lending and derivatives;and,Abra Treasury,a service for companies to add Bitcoin and digital assets to their corporate treasury.
Zak Crawley is an English professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He plays Test cricket for the England cricket team and has captained England in One Day Internationals.
Nium is a Singapore-headquartered cross-border payments company. Initially founded by Prajit Nanu and Michael Bermingham,and launched as a consumer-remittance platform Instarem in 2014. In 2016,the company introduced its B2B payments platform and rebranded as Nium in 2019,subsequently elevating Pratik Gandhi to co-founder in 2021. However,Gandhi left Nium in October 2023,around the time Nium's Chief Product Officer also left the company and Nium announced a layoff of over 10% of its global staff.
Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Brendan F. Wallace and Brad Greiwe. It manages the largest fund specialized in real estate technology The firm's name refers to a fifth wall of technology it provides in addition to the four physical walls of a building. It is part of an emerging category of "PropTech" investors. Major financial backers include large real estate industry companies that agree to be matched with the products and services of the firm's portfolio of start-up companies. The firm has separate funds for investments in emerging retail brands and climate technology to help real-estate companies reduce carbon emissions from their buildings.
Stephen John Hawinkels is a South African banker and former first-class cricketer.
James Richard Studdert Redmayne is an English former first-class cricketer.
Thrive Capital Management,LLC,commonly Thrive Capital,is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. It focuses on software and internet investments. The firm was founded by Joshua Kushner who is also co-founder of Oscar Health and minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies.
Carlos García Ottati is a Venezuelan entrepreneur,and the founder and CEO of Kavak,the first startup to achieve unicorn status in Mexico's history.
