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.
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup,early-stage,and emerging companies,that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees,annual revenue,scale of operations,etc.. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity,or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing start-ups in the hopes that some of the companies they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty,VC investments have high rates of failure. Start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are often from high technology industries,such as information technology (IT),clean technology or biotechnology.
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 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.
Aidan Merivale Crawley was a British journalist,television executive and editor,and politician. He was a member of both of Britain's major political parties:the Labour Party and Conservative Party,and was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour MP from 1945 to 1951,and as a Conservative MP from 1962 to 1967.
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.
Dr. Carina Tyrrell is a British-Swiss public health physician,investor,philanthropist and beauty pageant titleholder 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.
Entrepreneur First is an international talent investor,which supports individuals in building technology companies. Founded in 2011 by Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck,the company has offices in Toronto,London,Berlin,Paris,Singapore,Bangalore and San Francisco.
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.
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.
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.
Garry Cooper Jr. is an American entrepreneur,scientist,and business leader. He currently serves as the CEO of Rheaply,an enterprise asset management company for the circular economy,which he co-founded in 2015. He is also a founding member of LongJump,a venture capital firm dedicated to funding underrepresented founders.
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.
