On the day Donald Trump won the election, leaving behind a startled Hillary Clinton and dividing America .That election day increased the number of Americans who can get legally high to one in five, the business of weed is booming. There are now 727 companies companies dealing in cannabis, and combined, they’ve gotten $1.2 billion in total investment, reports analytics and data visualization firm Quid.
As marijuana leaves the black market behind, the business of working with the stuff is starting to look a lot like other industrial sectors:
The Marijuana and Cannabis start up economy is on steroids and as of nov,2016 United States has a total of 727 companies across all locations received $1.2 B in total investment.
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November 24, 2016
January 19, 2016
8 out of 10 asia's biggest billion dollar consumer internet start ups are chinese
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80% Asian Consumer Internet Start Ups are Chinese and rest from India |
8 out of 10 Asia's biggest consumer Internet start ups, with over 1 billion USD valuation are from China and the rest from India
No 3 : Didi Kuaidi :Apart from Xiaomi and China Internet Plus .. China has its own equivalent of uber and ola. Didi Kuaidi which is ranked 3rd biggest consumer internet start up in Asia is a company made up of China's two largest taxi-hailing firms- Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache as result of a merger in Feb. 2015.
No 4: Flipkart is India's biggest ecommerce marketplace and the country's biggest unicorn, which is currently valued at over $15billion
No 5: Asia's 5 largest Unicorn is chinese peer to peer lending Lufax which us valued more than $19billion recently.Lufax was launched in 2012 and the company is a part of Pi.ng An Insurance group ,which is china's largest insurer by asset
No 6 : Asia's 6th largest start up is chinese technology company DJI valued in excess of $8 billion . DJI manufactures commercial and recreational unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for aerial photography and videos
No 7 : Zhong An Online is among the first insurance company in china to sell all kinds of insurance policy as well as handle claims online .Zhong On is valued over $8 billion and it is China’s first truly digital insurer.Ranked 7th as Asia's biggest start up across consumer Internet space
No 8. :Ola Cabs is India's cab booking along with aggregation service is ranked 8th biggest asian consumer Internet unicorn .Ola's currently valuation is $5 billion
No 9 :Snapdeal is India's 2nd largest e commerce marketplace after flipkart, and valued over $5billion
No 10 :UCar provides a chauffeured car service in China, located at Tianjin china and founded in 2014. Ucar is valued currently at $3.4 billion
January 18, 2016
vc investors pumped in $58 billion across 4380 start ups,with 74 megadeals
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The biggest VC dealsIn 2015 software was VCs’ favorite sector in 2015 ($23.6 billion invested in 1,763 deals), followed by biotech ($7.4 billion across 475 deals). |
2015 also saw megadeals megadeals” (deals of $100 million or more) . Last year here were 74 such deals in 2015, up from 50 the year before)
January 17, 2016
periodic table of 144 start up unicorns whose valuation exceed $400billion

While every US unicorn raised money in a late-stage financing round at their $1B+ valuation, 2 of the 5 international unicorns raised at a mid stage round.
In 2015 there were a total of 144 Unicorns, which is arranged in the form of periodic table, whose combined valuation exceeds $400 billion
January 12, 2016
10 fastest growing products category start ups with highest return
List of start up services with highest return on investment
The above chart shows the product categories which has seen the highest growth and return on investment by VC funds and equity investment .Among the list of start ups,products related to Bitcoin, Photo Sharing and cloud has seen the highest annualized growth since 2012-2016. Bitcoin has seen its annualized growth jump to 151% compared to 150% across Photo sharing and 145% across cloud storage Space Travel, Transportation and Hospitality are other areas which" are among the fastest growing top 10 services verticalDecember 30, 2015
the biggest investors and total funding rounds in snapchat
Snapchat is a photo and video messaging app that allows users to take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to their intended recipients.Snapchat was created by by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were students at Stanford University. Among its investors are 1)Alibaba 2)Benchmark 3)Fidelity Investments 5)General 6)Catalyst Partners7) Glade Brook Capital 8) HDS Capital 9)Kingdom Holding 10)Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers along with Coatue Management SV Angel and Tencent Holdings
Snapchat as of 2015, December 31st has made 4 Acquisitions with a Total Equity Funding
$1.17B in 7 Rounds from 16 Investors.Snapchat serves transient display ads to over 100 million daily active users on its platform, for 10 seconds ( for the time range users can keep their recordings) after which the next sets of online ads are shown . Every ad disappear within 10 seconds, followed up the other set.Snapchat has succeeded in disruption the traditional CPC and CPM online ad models.
The success of the new model can be explained by the fact that Snapchat charges as astounding $750,000 a day.The company has experienced high user-base growth this year and has been one of the most compelling Unicorns in the tech industry. The firm has managed to raise over $1 billion in equity funding to date, which has valued the company between $15-20 billion.
The success of the new model can be explained by the fact that Snapchat charges as astounding $750,000 a day.The company has experienced high user-base growth this year and has been one of the most compelling Unicorns in the tech industry. The firm has managed to raise over $1 billion in equity funding to date, which has valued the company between $15-20 billion.
December 12, 2015
Hottest technology start up cities across the world

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist
The Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2015 report ranks the top 20 technology startup ecosystems in the world based on Performance, Funding, Market Reach, Talent, and Startup ExperiencePerformance is based on the funding and exit valuations of startups headquartered in the ecosystem, and Funding represents the amount of investments by venture capitalists and the time it takes to raise capital.
November 18, 2015
November 8, 2015
Funding Foursquare : 5 insights on the investment patterns
Foursquare Has Raised $162.3M In 6 Rounds From 8 Investors Its earliest disclosed investors include O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures, both of whom invested around 2009. Over its lifetime, Foursquare has racked up these financing stats: Largest round: $50M Median round: $27.5M Average round: $27.1M The total amount raised they have raised is 11,915% higher than the average for a company in the Other Technology category.
August 26, 2015
The list of VC funding behind moocs ( massive online open courses ) start up Coursera
List of VC funding and equity Investment in online open education Course start up "Coursera"
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List of Venture Capital Funding in the massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Coursera. SO far it has managed to generate more than $135million from 5 rounds of Funding Deals |
With a $49.5 million Series C funding round , well known open massive online course start up ( MOOC) online learning start up which conducts open online courses Coursera, concluded its 5th found of VC funding which saw VC deals from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and International Finance Corporation. Times Internet Limited (TIL), which owns the Times of India and other media properties, also participated in this
Coursera also recently announced that it expects a second closing of this round that will bringits total funding to $60 million. GSV Asset Management and Learn Capital are expected to will participate in this second closing
July 26, 2015
how startups fund their business : top 5 source of funding
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July 17, 2015
Investors funding the top 15 most recent "US " start ups
Big Data Investors
The first picture illustrates the companies/ start ups who are in the big data space in the form of a cloud .The size of the nodes in the cloud is relative to the logarithmic total result of all their funding rounds.
The second hart shows the investors ,the funding companies – here, the node size is relative to their Big Data investments.
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June 16, 2015
June 15, 2015
Venture Funding Raised by region :US vs Europe vs Asia
The chart shows the total VC investment by region specifically compares US , Europe and Asia. The data compiled from EY and Qz shows how VC funding from the years 2007 onwards to 2015. The first chart clearly shows US dominating the world of global Venture Funding from 2013 onwards. Meanwhile the second chart shows the VC funding global contributers: 2007 to 2013 which inlcudes Asian nations of India and China besides, Israel.The last 2 years has seen European VC funding dry up while the numbers from other nations including asia increase. Israel, China and India has been also shown growing up in stature
May 19, 2015
This years top 10 kickstarter projects ranked by venture funding

Kickstarter 2015 Projects with the biggest funding
The chart shows the biggest funding projects by Kickstarter .founded in 2009 Kickstarter has turned into one of the most prolific crowdfunding platforms worldwide.
This year in March 2015, Pebble Time project completed its crowdfunding and publicity run with 20.34 billion dollars.No 2 project was Coolest Cooler which finished its Kickstarter run with more than 13.28 million U.S. dollars in project funding. Up until then, Pebble e-paper watch for Android and iOS had held the title for the highest funded project on the crowdfunding website with 10.27 million US dollars.
May 11, 2015
The biggest Tech IPO Investors and historical volumes
The 2015 Tech IPO Pipeline report published by CBInsights currently represents the cream of the crop within investor portfolios, and those companies that may be on their way to an IPO given sustained product, market and financing momentum.
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May 10, 2015
top 5 venture capital investors with more $10M tech series A rounds
Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners are among the top 2 VC investors who have completed the highest number of $10M+ tech Series A round founding since 2009. While Andreessen Horowitz has participated in over 25 such investments over the past five years including Rap Genius, Mixpanel and Crowdtilt. Accel Partners has completed the second highest number of 10M+ tech Series A deals in the period including Birchbox, Nomi and Hailo
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