Great Idea
Airbnb
2009 · $600K Seed
Turned spare rooms into a global hospitality network.
Great Idea
Uber
2009 · $200K Seed
Reimagined urban transportation with on-demand rides.
Great Idea
Dropbox
2007 · $1.2M Seed
Made cloud file storage effortless for everyone.
Great Idea
Spotify
2008 · $21.6M Series A
Transformed music consumption with legal streaming.
Great Idea
Tesla
2004 · $7.5M Series A
Proved electric vehicles could be desirable and high-performance.
Great Idea
Pinterest
2010 · $500K Angel
Created a visual discovery engine for ideas and inspiration.
Great Idea
Slack
2009 · $1.5M Seed
Replaced email with real-time team messaging.
Great Idea
Snapchat
2012 · $485K Seed
Pioneered ephemeral photo and video messaging.
Great Idea
Instagram
2010 · $500K Seed
Made mobile photo sharing beautiful and social.
Great Idea
WhatsApp
2009 · $250K Seed
Built the world's most-used messaging platform.
Great Idea
Notion
2013 · $2M Seed
Unified notes, docs, and project management in one tool.
Great Idea
Figma
2013 · $3.8M Seed
Brought collaborative design to the browser.
Great Idea
Canva
2013 · $3M Seed
Democratized graphic design for non-designers.
Great Idea
Discord
2013 · $8.2M Series A
Built the go-to voice and text platform for communities.
Great Idea
Zoom
2012 · $6M Series A
Made video conferencing that actually works.
Great Idea
Clubhouse
2020 · $12M Series A
Created live audio social networking.
Great Idea
TikTok (ByteDance)
2012 · $5M Series A
Reinvented short-form video entertainment globally.
Big Market
WeWork
2012 · $17M Series A
Reimagined commercial real estate as flexible coworking.
Big Market
DoorDash
2013 · $2.4M Seed
Built last-mile delivery for restaurants nationwide.
Big Market
Instacart
2012 · $2.3M Seed
Pioneered same-day grocery delivery at scale.
Big Market
Opendoor
2014 · $9.95M Series A
Created instant home buying and selling.
Big Market
Brex
2017 · $7M Series A
Built corporate credit cards for startups.
Big Market
Rappi
2016 · $9M Series A
Built Latin America's leading super-app for delivery.
Big Market
Gojek
2014 · $2M Seed
Created Southeast Asia's leading multi-service platform.
Big Market
Grab
2013 · $15M Series A
Built Southeast Asia's dominant ride-hailing and payments app.
Big Market
Revolut
2015 · £1.5M Seed
Disrupted traditional banking with a digital-first platform.
Big Market
Nubank
2013 · $2M Seed
Built Latin America's largest digital bank from scratch.
Big Market
Klarna
2007 · $2.2M Series A
Popularized buy-now-pay-later for e-commerce.
Big Market
Chime
2013 · $3.8M Seed
Made fee-free banking accessible to millions.
Big Market
Robinhood
2013 · $3M Seed
Democratized stock trading with zero commissions.
Big Market
Coinbase
2012 · $600K Seed
Made cryptocurrency accessible to mainstream users.
Big Market
Stripe
2010 · $2M Seed
Simplified online payments for developers worldwide.
Big Market
Plaid
2013 · $2.8M Seed
Connected fintech apps to bank accounts seamlessly.
Big Market
Toast
2012 · $500K Seed
Built an all-in-one restaurant technology platform.
Solid Experience
LinkedIn
2003 · $4.7M Series A
Created the professional networking standard.
Solid Experience
Palantir
2004 · $30M Series A
Built enterprise data analytics for complex organizations.
Solid Experience
Snowflake
2012 · $5M Series A
Reinvented cloud data warehousing architecture.
Solid Experience
Databricks
2013 · $14M Series A
Unified data analytics and AI on one lakehouse platform.
Solid Experience
HashiCorp
2014 · $10M Series A
Built infrastructure automation tools for cloud operations.
Solid Experience
Confluent
2014 · $6.9M Series A
Commercialized Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming.
Solid Experience
Elastic
2012 · $10M Series A
Made enterprise search and observability scalable.
Solid Experience
MongoDB
2008 · $6.5M Series A
Pioneered the document database for modern applications.
Solid Experience
Twilio
2009 · $3.7M Series A
Made communication APIs that developers love.
Solid Experience
Okta
2010 · $10M Series A
Built the identity standard for the enterprise.
Solid Experience
CrowdStrike
2012 · $26M Series A
Redefined endpoint security with cloud-native AI.
Solid Experience
SentinelOne
2013 · $2.5M Seed
Built autonomous AI-powered cybersecurity.
Solid Experience
Cloudflare
2009 · $2.1M Series A
Made the internet faster, safer, and more reliable.
Solid Experience
Fastly
2012 · $4M Series A
Built a programmable edge cloud for developers.
Solid Experience
Datadog
2012 · $6.2M Series A
Unified monitoring and analytics for cloud infrastructure.
Solid Experience
PagerDuty
2010 · $1.9M Seed
Created the standard for incident response management.
Solid Experience
Sumo Logic
2010 · $5.6M Series A
Built cloud-native machine data analytics.
Good Early Traction
Shopify
2010 · $7M Series A
Empowered anyone to build an online store.
Good Early Traction
Calendly
2014 · $550K Seed
Made scheduling meetings effortless with one link.
Good Early Traction
Mailchimp
2001 · Bootstrapped
Grew email marketing into a small business essential.
Good Early Traction
Typeform
2012 · €550K Seed
Made online forms conversational and engaging.
Good Early Traction
Airtable
2015 · $3M Seed
Turned spreadsheets into powerful app-building blocks.
Good Early Traction
Loom
2016 · $600K Seed
Made async video messaging mainstream for teams.
Good Early Traction
Miro
2018 · $25M Series A
Built the visual collaboration whiteboard for remote teams.
Good Early Traction
ClickUp
2017 · $1.4M Seed
Created an all-in-one productivity platform.
Good Early Traction
Monday.com
2012 · $1.5M Seed
Made work management visual and intuitive.
Good Early Traction
Asana
2009 · $9M Series A
Built task management for team coordination at scale.
Good Early Traction
Trello
2014 · $10.3M Series A
Made project management simple with Kanban boards.
Good Early Traction
Basecamp
2004 · Bootstrapped
Proved profitable SaaS without venture funding.
Good Early Traction
Gusto
2012 · $6.1M Seed
Simplified payroll and HR for small businesses.
Good Early Traction
Rippling
2017 · $7M Seed
Unified HR, IT, and finance in one platform.
Good Early Traction
Deel
2019 · $4.5M Seed
Solved global payroll and compliance for remote teams.
Good Early Traction
Lattice
2016 · $3.7M Seed
Built people management software for growing companies.
Strong Team
OpenAI
2015 · $1B Commitment
Assembled world-class AI researchers to build safe AGI.
Strong Team
Anthropic
2021 · $124M Series A
Founded by ex-OpenAI leaders to build reliable AI.
Strong Team
DeepMind
2011 · $3.3M Series A
Brought together neuroscience and AI research talent.
Strong Team
SpaceX
2002 · $100M Self-funded
Recruited top aerospace engineers to make space accessible.
Strong Team
Stripe (Team)
2011 · $2M Seed
Two brothers who understood developer pain built payments.
Strong Team
Ripple
2013 · $3.5M Seed
Crypto veterans building enterprise blockchain payments.
Strong Team
Flexport
2014 · $6.9M Seed
Logistics experts modernizing global freight forwarding.
Strong Team
Anduril
2017 · $17.5M Seed
Defense tech veterans building AI-powered security.
Strong Team
Scale AI
2017 · $4.5M Series A
MIT dropout built the data engine powering AI companies.
Strong Team
Cohere
2021 · $40M Series A
Google Brain alumni building enterprise language AI.
Strong Team
Mistral
2023 · €105M Seed
Ex-Meta and DeepMind researchers building open AI models.
Strong Team
Hugging Face
2018 · $4M Seed
Built the open-source hub for machine learning.
Strong Team
Databricks (Team)
2013 · $14M Series A
Apache Spark creators commercialized big data analytics.
Strong Team
Cruise
2014 · $4.3M Seed
Self-driving car team backed by GM's resources.
Strong Team
Waymo
2009 · Google-backed
Google's autonomous driving moonshot with top robotics talent.
Strong Team
Aurora
2018 · $90M Series A
Self-driving legends from Google, Tesla, and Uber joined forces.