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    Recent transactions in the sector

    Country Funding round Date
    Twelve Labs Inc
    Video 'understanding" company.
    United States N/A
    USD 40,000,000 (USD 40,000,000)
    13 Dec 2024
    Sierra Technologies Inc
    Developer of custom AI agents for enterprise customer service.
    N/A
    USD 175,000,000 (USD 175,000,000) at USD 4,500,000,000 (USD 4,500,000,000) valuation.
    29 Oct 2024
    Clerk Chat Inc
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) telecom platform for enterprises.
    United States N/A
    USD 7,000,000 (USD 7,000,000)
    16 Oct 2024
    Safe Superintelligence Inc
    Seed
    USD 1,000,000,000 (USD 1,000,000,000) at USD 5,000,000,000 (USD 5,000,000,000) valuation.
    4 Sep 2024
    Twelve Labs Inc
    Video 'understanding" company.
    United States Series A
    USD 50,000,000 (USD 50,000,000)
    4 Jun 2024
    Twelve Labs Inc
    Video 'understanding" company.
    United States N/A
    USD 10,000,000 (USD 10,000,000)
    24 Oct 2023
    Runway AI Inc
    AI video company.
    United States Series C
    USD 141,000,000 (USD 141,000,000)
    30 Jun 2023
    Twelve Labs Inc
    Video 'understanding" company.
    United States Seed
    USD 12,000,000 (USD 12,000,000)
    5 Dec 2022
    Twelve Labs Inc
    Video 'understanding" company.
    United States Seed
    USD 5,000,000 (USD 5,000,000)
    17 Mar 2022
    Runway AI Inc
    AI video company.
    United States Series B
    USD 35,000,000 (USD 35,000,000)
    15 Dec 2021
    Airtable
    Flexible collaboration and workflow cloud platform.
    Series D
    USD 185,000,000 (USD 185,000,000) at USD 2,500,000,000 (USD 2,500,000,000) valuation.
    14 Sep 2020
    Stack Exchange Inc
    Questions and answers site for programmers.
    United States Series E
    USD 85,000,000 (USD 85,000,000)
    29 Jul 2020
    Github Inc
    Developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their source code.
    United States Acquisition
    4 Jun 2018
    Stack Exchange Inc
    Questions and answers site for programmers.
    United States Series D
    USD 40,000,000 (USD 40,000,000)
    21 Jan 2015
    Stack Exchange Inc
    Questions and answers site for programmers.
    United States Series B
    1 Mar 2011
    Stack Exchange Inc
    Questions and answers site for programmers.
    United States Series A
    1 May 2010
    What3words Ltd
    United Kingdom N/A
    Sierra Technologies Inc
    Developer of custom AI agents for enterprise customer service.
    N/A
    Runway AI Inc
    AI video company.
    United States N/A
    Sierra Technologies Inc
    Developer of custom AI agents for enterprise customer service.
    N/A
    Twelve Labs Inc
    Video 'understanding" company.
    United States N/A
    Sooper Books Ltd
    Book streaming service.
    N/A

    Best funded companies in the sector





    Developer of custom AI agents for enterprise customer service.





    Questions and answers site for programmers.

    Investment themes:




    Flexible collaboration and workflow cloud platform.

    Investment themes:




    Artificial Intelligence (AI) telecom platform for enterprises.





    Book streaming service.





    Developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their source code.

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    Top investors in the Online Services (NEC) sector

    Profile Country Investments
    Index Ventures Management SA Venture capital firm Switzerland 5
    Union Square Ventures LLC Early stage venture capital firm United States 4
    Andreessen Horowitz Venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz United States 4
    Spark Capital Early and growth stage venture capital firm. United States 3
    Radical Ventures Investments Inc Canada 3
    Thrive Capital Partners Inc Private equity and venture capital investment firm focused on media and internet investments. United States 2
    Arāya Ventures Ltd United Kingdom 2
    Benchmark Capital Early stage venture capital firm focused on social, mobile, local and cloud companies. United States 2
    NVIDIA Corp Software and fabless company which designs graphics processing units (GPUs) and APIs for high-performance computing. United States 2
    Sequoia Capital Operations LLC Venture capital firm. United States 2
    WndrCo LLC United States 2
    Spring Ventures The investment platform for Sunil Paul. United States 1
    Avra Capital Venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments, focusing on fintech, blockchain, and Web3 technologies. United States 1
    Greenoaks Capital Partners LLC Privately held global investment firm 1
    HubSpot Ventures The corporate venturing arm of Hubspot. 1
    DST Global The investment vehicle of Silicon Valley-based Russian Internet financier Yuri Milner. United States 1
    Intel Corp American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. United States 1
    Joshua Schachter United States 1
    Bezos Expeditions Bezos Expeditions manages Jeff Bezos' personal venture capital investments. 1
    DataBricks Inc Unified data platform for analytics and AI. United States 1
    NFDG Investment partnership between Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. 1
    Charles River Ventures Independent venture capital firm United States 1
    New Enterprise Associates Inc Global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. United States 1
    GIC Private Ltd Singapore sovereign wealth fund. Singapore 1
    Amplify Partners VC firm investing in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers. United States 1
    Snowflake Ventures The corporate venturing arm of Snowflake. 1
    HF0 Residency United States 1
    CSC Upshot Ventures I LP United States 1
    Christopher Dixon United States 1
    Hone Capital United States 1
    Compound Family office for people who work in tech. 1
    Techstars Seattle 1
    Altair Capital Management LLC 1
    Quiet Capital Management LLC United States 1
    Korea Investment Partners Co Ltd Korea's largest venture capital firm. South Korea 1
    Bob Pasker United States 1
    D1 Capital Partners LP Hedge fund manager United States 1
    Position Ventures LLC 1
    Index Ventures LLP United Kingdom 1
    ICONiQ Capital LLC Global multi-family office. 1
    Salesforce Ventures Salesforce's corporate investment group. United States 1
    In-Q-Tel Inc Non-profit venture capital firm, sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that invests agency funds in promising early stage companies United States 1
    SV Angel Silicon Valley-based angel fund. United States 1
    Caffeinated Capital Early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. United States 1
    Samsung Group South Korea 1
    Naval Ravikant 1
    Google Inc American multinational Internet and software corporation specialized in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. United States 1
    SK Telecom Ventures The dedicated venture capital arm of SK Telecom. United States 1
    Race Capital LP 1
    BoxGroup Ventures LLC Early-stage venture capital fund investing in innovative tech startups, focusing on software, e-commerce, AI, and biotech. United States 1

    Top acquirers in the Online Services (NEC) sector

    Profile Country Acquisitions
    Microsoft Corp Software company focused on computing through its various product divisions. United States 1

    Online Services (NEC) industry map

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    developer platforms
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    Online Services (NEC) selected pre-money valuations (USD)

    Funding round Median Average Minimum Maximum Sample size
    Seed 5,000,000,000 5,000,000,000 5,000,000,000 5,000,000,000 1
    Series D 2,500,000,000 2,500,000,000 2,500,000,000 2,500,000,000 1
    N/A 4,500,000,000 4,500,000,000 4,500,000,000 4,500,000,000 1
    2,500,000,000 5,000,000,000 3

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    Online Services (NEC) selected deal sizes (USD)

    Funding round Median Average Minimum Maximum Sample size
    Seed 12,000,000 339,000,000 5,000,000 1,000,000,000 3
    Series A 50,000,000 50,000,000 50,000,000 50,000,000 1
    Series B 35,000,000 35,000,000 35,000,000 35,000,000 1
    Series C 141,000,000 141,000,000 141,000,000 141,000,000 1
    Series D 112,500,000 112,500,000 40,000,000 185,000,000 2
    Series E 85,000,000 85,000,000 85,000,000 85,000,000 1
    N/A 25,000,000 58,000,000 7,000,000 175,000,000 4
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    Business Classification

    Parent business classification group
    Online Services