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Dragoneer
The Dragoneer Investment Group (Dragoneer) is an American investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on technology investments in both public and private markets globally. Background Dragoneer is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2012 by Marc Stad. Stad was an investment professional who had previously worked at the Investment Group of Santa Barbara, TPG Capital and McKinsey & Company. Dragoneer describes itself as a growth-oriented investment firm with more than $17 billion in long-duration capital from institutional funds such as endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and family offices. For public markets, Dragoneer manages long-only strategy funds that invests in technology companies. For private markets, Dragoneer manages private growth equity funds that provides funding to private technology companies. The firm avoids going through the traditional fundraising method and instead tries other methods such as secondary st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cvent
Cvent Holding Corp. is a Tysons Corner, Virginia–based company that provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for meetings, events, and hospitality management. Their web-based platform caters to in-person, virtual, and hybrid events, offering functionalities like online registration, venue selection, event management tools, and attendee engagement features. Cvent also provides software for hotels and venues to manage group bookings, including corporate travel, and source new group business. Previously a public company, Cvent was acquired by investment firm Blackstone Inc. for $4.6 billion in June 2023. Operations Cvent is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C. International Cvent offices include Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore and Melbourne. Cvent traded on the New York Stock Exchange starting in 2013 under the symbol CVT until it was taken private in 2016 by Vista Equity Partners. After becoming a public company again, Cvent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airbnb
Airbnb, Inc. ( , an abbreviation of its original name, "Air Bed and Breakfast") is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays, experiences and services in various countries and regions. It acts as a broker and charges a commission (remuneration), commission from each booking. Airbnb was founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Joe Gebbia. It is the best-known company for short-term housing rentals. History After moving to San Francisco in October 2007, roommates and former schoolmates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia came up with an idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. In February 2008, Nathan Blecharczyk, Chesky's former roommate, joined as the chief technology officer and the third co-founder of the new venture, which they named "AirBed & Breakfast". They put together a website that offered short-term living quarters and breakfast for those who were unable to bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market (; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the U.S. by volume, and ranked second on the list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc. (which the exchange also lists; ticker symbol NDAQ), which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic stock market network and several U.S.-based stock and options exchanges. Although it trades stock of healthcare, financial, media, entertainment, retail, hospitality, and food businesses, it focuses more on technology stocks. The exchange is made up of both American and foreign firms, with China and Israel being the largest foreign sources. History 1972–2000 Nasdaq, Inc. was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), which is now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DoorDash
DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States. It also has a 60% market share in the convenience delivery category. As of December 31, 2020, the platform was used by 450,000 merchants, 20 million consumers, and had over one million delivery couriers. Founded by Tony Xu, Andy Fang, and Stanley Tang, DoorDash made its debut on the ''Fortune'' 500 list in 2024, ranking #443. DoorDash has been sued for and/or held legally liable for withholding tips, reducing tip transparency, antitrust price manipulation, listing restaurants without permission, misclassifying workers, withholding sick time, and illegally selling personal data. Outside the United States, DoorDash and its European subsidiary Wolt have operations in a combined total of 32 other countries as of the end of 2024. History In January 2013, Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domo (company)
Domo, Inc. is an American cloud software company based in American Fork, Utah, United States. It specializes in business intelligence tools and data visualization. History Domo, Inc. was founded in 2010 by Josh James After leaving Adobe, in October 2010, James started Shacho, Inc. In December 2010, Shacho purchased Lindon-based Corda Technologies. James changed Shacho's name to Domo. Investors Initial investors in Domo include Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, Hummer Winblad, Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, and Fraser Bullock of Sorenson Capital. In 2011, $20 million came from Silicon Valley–based Institutional Venture Partners, which also invested in Josh James’ previous start-up, Omniture. In 2013, the company announced a Series B investment of $60 million from GGV Capital, Greylock, Bezos Expeditions, and Co-CEOs of Workday, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield. In February 2014, Domo announced Series C funding of an additional $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dollar Shave Club
Dollar Shave Club, Inc. is an American company based in Venice, California, that delivers razors and other personal grooming products to customers by mail. It delivers razor blades on a monthly basis and offers additional grooming products for home delivery. History Dollar Shave Club was founded by Mark Levine and Michael Dubin. The pair met at a party and spoke of their frustrations with the cost of razor blades. With their own money and investments from start-up incubator Science Inc., they began operations in January 2011 and launched their website in April 2011. Dollar Shave Club was backed by a variety of venture capitalists. In March 2012, seed investors provided $1 million in funding from groups that included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Shasta Ventures, and others. The same group, joined by Venrock, provided $9.8 million in series A funding in October 2012. A year later, a $12 million series B round was raised led by Venrock, Comcast Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discord (software)
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media. Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".The developer documentation refers to servers as "guilds". A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be accessed via invite links. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers. Discord has about 150 million monthly active users and 19 million weekly active servers. It is primarily used by gamers, although the share of users interested in other topics is growing. Discord is the List of most-visited websites, 30th most visited website in the world, with 22.98% of its traffic coming from the United States. In March 2022, Discord employed 600 people globally. History The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Databricks
Databricks, Inc. is a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. The company provides a cloud-based platform to help enterprises build, scale, and govern data and AI, including generative AI and other machine learning models. Databricks pioneered the data lakehouse, a data and AI platform that combines the capabilities of a data warehouse with a data lake, allowing organizations to manage and use both structured and unstructured data for traditional business analytics and AI workloads. The company similarly develops Delta Lake, an open-source project to bring reliability to data lakes for machine learning and other data science use cases. History 2013-2021 Databricks grew out of the AMPLab project at University of California, Berkeley that was involved in making Apache Spark, an open-source distributed computing framework built atop Scala. The company was founded by Ali Ghodsi, Andy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CRED
Dreamplug Technologies Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a CRED is an Indian fintech company, based in Bangalore. Founded in 2018 by Kunal Shah, it is a reward-based credit card payments app. CRED also allows users to make house rent payments and provides short-term credit lines. As of 2022, the company was valued at around $6.4 billion. History Cred was started in 2018 by Kunal Shah. Cred posted losses of ₹360.31 crore in fiscal year 2020, caused primarily due to high expenditure on marketing and advertising. By 2021, the company reported having 5.9 million users. In 2021, Cred acquired expense management startup Happay and a liquor delivery startup HipBar. In December 2022, Cred acquired a 100% stake in CreditVidya that offers lending as a service to customers who do not have a credit score. In July 2023, Cred acquired savings and investment platform Spenny. In February 2024, Cred acquired online wealth management and mutual funds startup Kuvera for an undisclosed amount. In June 2024, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chime (company)
Chime Financial, Inc. is an American financial technology company, based in San Francisco, California, that provides fee-free mobile banking services through two national banks, Stride Bank and The Bancorp Bank. The company offers early access to paychecks, negative account balances without overdraft fees, high-yield savings accounts, peer-to-peer payments, and an interest-free Credit card#Secured credit cards, secured credit card. Chime's mobile banking services do not rely on monthly service or overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. Chime earns the majority of its revenue from the collection of Interchange fee, interchange fees on debit card transactions. Chime is able to offer its services via its relationships with banks despite the company not being a bank itself; customer funds are routed to a chartered bank. FDIC insurance is only available to users via the partnered banks, not directly through Chime. In 2021 and 2022, Chime was criticized for closing customer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
