Top acquisitions of 2012

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• ABB
  Thomas & Betts
  $3,900,000,000
• Hologic
  Gen-Probe
  $3,700,000,000
• SAP
  SuccessFactors
  $3,400,000,000
• Zayo Bandwidth
  AboveNet
  $2,200,000,000
• Oracle Corporation
  Taleo
  $1,900,000,000
• Vodafone
  Cable&Wireless Worldwide
  $1,700,000,000
• Facebook
  Instagram
  $1,010,470,000
• Celgene
  Avila Therapeutics
  $925,000,000
• Amazon
  Kiva Systems
  $775,000,000
• Jazz Pharmaceuticals
  EUSA Pharma
  $650,000,000
• Haemonetics
  Pall
  $551,000,000

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Trends of 2012

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Top investments of 2012

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• DIRECTV
  debt round 
  $4,000,000,000
• Xerox
  post ipo equity 
  $1,100,000,000
• Enel OGK-5
   
  $625,000,000
• GreatPoint Energy
  d 
  $420,000,000
• Fisker Automotive
   
  $392,000,000
• Barnes & Noble
   
  $300,000,000
• Legendary Entertainment
   
  $275,000,000
• SquareTrade
   
  $238,000,000
• First Wind
   
  $236,000,000
• Skybox Imaging
  c 
  $210,000,000

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Top investors of 2012

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Accel Partners
  $646,550,000
• Russian Direct Investment Fund
  $625,000,000
• New Enterprise Associates
  $580,350,000
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $564,000,000
• Khosla Ventures
  $458,000,000
• Greylock Partners
  $439,000,000
• Bessemer Venture Partners
  $355,700,000
• DAG Ventures
  $326,600,000
• Battery Ventures
  $316,400,000
• TomorrowVentures
  $313,150,000

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Top private investors of 2012

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Peter Thiel
  $294,100,000
• Gordy Crawford
  $275,000,000
• Max Levchin
  $86,100,000
• Ronnie Lott
  $85,000,000
• Nicholas J. Pritzker
  $81,000,000
• Yuri Milner
  $38,200,000
• Paige Craig
  $35,000,000
• Chris Dixon
  $32,500,000
• Roger McNamee
  $30,000,000
• Jerry Murdock
  $30,000,000

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Top acquisitions of 2011

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• AT&T
  T-Mobile
  $39,000,000,000
• Sanofi Aventis
  Genzyme
  $20,000,000,000
• United Technologies
  Goodrich Corporation
  $18,400,000,000
• Google
  Motorola Mobility
  $12,500,000,000
• Hewlett-Packard
  Autonomy Corporation
  $10,200,000,000
• Microsoft
  Skype
  $8,500,000,000
• Texas Instruments
  National Semiconductor
  $6,500,000,000
• Applied Materials
  Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates
  $4,900,000,000
• Broadcom
  NetLogic Microsystems
  $3,700,000,000
• Grifols
  Talecris Biotherapeutics
  $3,400,000,000
• General Electric
  Converteam
  $3,200,000,000

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Trends of 2011

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Top investments of 2011

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• Facebook
   
  $1,500,000,000
• Groupon
  d 
  $966,200,000
• Twitter
   
  $800,000,000
• LivingSocial
  e, f 
  $576,000,000
• Zynga
  c 
  $490,000,000
• BrightSource Energy
  e 
  $459,000,000
• Bigpoint
   
  $350,000,000
• Towergate
   
  $317,292,000
• Qunar.com
   
  $305,000,000
• SoloPower
  debt round 
  $292,300,000

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Top investors of 2011

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $3,854,075,000
• Digital Sky Technologies
  $2,817,000,000
• Goldman Sachs
  $2,578,000,000
• New Enterprise Associates
  $2,019,000,000
• Greylock Partners
  $1,934,567,940
• Andreessen Horowitz
  $1,774,194,995
• Lightspeed Venture Partners
  $1,382,704,000
• Battery Ventures
  $1,365,650,000
• Accel Partners
  $1,233,250,000
• Technology Crossover Ventures
  $1,198,000,000

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Top private investors of 2011

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Ali Partovi
  $256,520,000
• Hadi Partovi
  $256,520,000
• Ashton Kutcher
  $136,700,000
• Jeff Bezos
  $112,000,000
• Glenn Poswell
  $80,000,000
• Ted Leonsis
  $62,200,000
• Erik Blachford
  $60,650,000
• Bill Gates
  $60,000,000
• Len Blavatnik
  $56,000,000
• Ron Conway
  $55,550,000

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Top acquisitions of 2010

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• SAP
  Sybase
  $5,800,000,000
• KDDI
  Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM)
  $4,000,000,000
• Pfizer
  King Pharmaceuticals
  $3,600,000,000
• Silverlake & Warburg Pincus
  Interactive Data
  $3,400,000,000
• Liberty Global
  Unitymedia
  $3,000,000,000
• Celgene
  Abraxis BioScience
  $2,900,000,000
• Hewlett-Packard
  3PAR
  $2,350,000,000
• BNY Mellon
  PNC Global Investment Servicing
  $2,310,000,000
• EMC
  Isilon Systems
  $2,250,000,000
• Attachmate
  Novell
  $2,200,000,000

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Trends of 2010

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Top investments of 2010

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• Terra-Gen Power
  debt round 
  $1,200,000,000
• O3b Networks
  debt round 
  $1,180,000,000
• Vivint, Inc.
  debt round 
  $565,000,000
• FriendFinder Networks
  debt round 
  $551,200,000
• M.Setek
   
  $540,000,000
• Abound Solar
  grant 
  $510,000,000
• Better Place
   
  $350,000,000
• Kosmos Biotherapeutics
  a 
  $319,000,000
• Zynga
  b 
  $315,000,000
• Brocade Communications Systems
  post ipo debt 
  $300,000,000

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Top investors of 2010

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $1,356,662,968
• Accel Partners
  $921,117,520
• New Enterprise Associates
  $885,255,567
• VantagePoint Capital Partners
  $837,248,760
• Intel Capital
  $785,066,760
• Morgan Stanley
  $771,400,000
• Sequoia Capital
  $766,301,223
• Goldman Sachs
  $755,400,000
• Google
  $710,000,000
• North Bridge Venture Partners
  $651,000,001

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Top private investors of 2010

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Keith Rabois
  $140,750,000
• Joynul Miah
  $100,000,000
• Imran Miah
  $100,000,000
• Jeremy Stoppelman
  $99,900,000
• Ben Ling
  $97,000,000
• Les Wexner
  $58,000,000
• Prof Dr F.M. Helmy
  $45,000,000
• Prof Dr Farooq Ali
  $45,000,000
• Peter Hershberg
  $40,150,000
• Ron Conway
  $37,650,000

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Top acquisitions of 2009

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• Puget Holdings
  Puget Energy
  $7,400,000,000
• Oracle Corporation
  Sun Microsystems
  $7,400,000,000
• Abbott Labs
  Solvay Pharmaceuticals
  $6,600,000,000
• Xerox
  Affiliated Computer Services
  $5,750,000,000
• Panasonic
  Sanyo
  $4,600,000,000
• The Walt Disney Company
  Marvel Entertainment
  $4,000,000,000
• Sanofi Aventis
  Merial Limited
  $4,000,000,000
• AT&T
  Sterling Commerce
  $3,900,000,000
• Dell
  Perot Systems
  $3,900,000,000
• GlaxoSmithKline
  Stiefel
  $3,600,000,000

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Trends of 2009

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Top investments of 2009

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• Clearwire
  post ipo debt, post ipo equity 
  $2,420,000,000
• Sirius Satellite Radio
  post ipo debt 
  $1,055,750,000
• Solyndra
  debt round, f 
  $1,019,000,000
• Fisker Automotive
  d, debt round 
  $614,000,000
• Vertex Pharmaceuticals
  post ipo equity, post ipo debt 
  $598,000,000
• Tesla Motors
  f, debt round 
  $597,500,000
• Crucell
   
  $443,000,000
• NextG Networks
   
  $360,100,000
• A123 Systems
  e, grant 
  $320,860,000
• Horizon Wind Energy
   
  $318,000,000

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Top investors of 2009

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Intel
  $2,477,781,810
• Comcast
  $2,424,000,000
• Sprint Nextel
  $2,420,000,000
• Time Warner
  $2,420,000,000
• Eagle River Holdings
  $2,420,000,000
• U.S. Department of Energy
  $1,933,530,000
• BrightHouse
  $1,500,000,000
• New Enterprise Associates
  $1,176,630,000
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $861,650,000
• Accel Partners
  $717,939,999

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Top private investors of 2009

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Carlos Slim
  $250,000,000
• Hayley Martin
  $162,000,000
• Sarah Martin
  $162,000,000
• Dave Duffield
  $75,000,000
• Ron Conway
  $67,142,365
• Li Ka-shing
  $65,500,000
• Ted Leonsis
  $50,000,000
• I. Wistar Morris III
  $46,000,000
• Rick Thompson
  $43,000,000
• David Golden
  $42,000,000

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Top acquisitions of 2008

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• Verizon
  Alltel
  $28,100,000,000
• Hewlett-Packard
  EDS
  $13,900,000,000
• Takeda Pharmaceutical
  Millennium Pharmaceuticals
  $8,689,310,000
• Eli Lilly
  Imclone Systems
  $7,133,620,000
• NBC Universal
  The Weather Channel
  $3,500,000,000
• Google
  DoubleClick
  $3,100,000,000
• Brocade Communications Systems
  Foundry Networks
  $3,000,000,000
• Hellman & Friedman
  Getty Images
  $2,400,000,000
• Kinetic Concepts
  LifeCell
  $1,802,940,000
• CBS
  CNET Networks
  $1,800,000,000
• TPG Capital
  Aptalis Pharma
  $1,300,000,000

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Trends of 2008

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Top investments of 2008

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• Clearwire
  post ipo equity 
  $3,200,000,000
• Oak Pacific Interactive
   
  $430,000,000
• Stormfisher Biogas
  a 
  $350,000,000
• United Mobile
  b 
  $315,000,000
• Nanosolar
  d 
  $300,000,000
• Tower Vision
   
  $300,000,000
• Solyndra
  e, d 
  $295,000,000
• Vital Renewable Energy Company
  a 
  $257,000,000
• Bloom Energy
   
  $250,000,000
• HomeAway
  e 
  $250,000,000

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Top investors of 2008

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Intel
  $3,225,000,000
• Comcast
  $3,210,500,000
• Google
  $3,208,400,000
• Time Warner
  $3,200,000,000
• BrightHouse
  $3,200,000,000
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $1,264,370,000
• New Enterprise Associates
  $1,216,140,000
• Accel Partners
  $1,036,290,000
• Intel Capital
  $956,961,876
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  $920,940,000

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Top private investors of 2008

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Paul Posner
  $100,000,000
• Li Ka-shing
  $81,640,000
• Russell Siegelman
  $56,400,000
• Ron Conway
  $51,000,000
• Steven Brill
  $44,400,000
• Marc Benioff
  $41,450,000
• Elon Musk
  $40,000,000
• Juan Villalonga
  $35,000,000
• Gordon Crawford
  $33,500,000
• Scott Banister
  $31,400,000

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Top acquisitions of 2007

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• Microsoft
  aQuantive
  $6,400,000,000
• Hologic
  Cytyc
  $6,200,000,000
• Cisco
  WebEx
  $2,900,000,000
• Hewlett-Packard
  Opsware
  $1,600,000,000
• Dell
  Equallogic
  $1,400,000,000
• Source Interlink Companies
  PRIMEDIA Enthusiast Media
  $1,200,000,000
• ON Semiconductor
  AMI Semiconductor
  $915,000,000
• Yahoo!
  Right Media
  $850,000,000
• Cisco
  IronPort Systems
  $830,000,000
• Microsoft
  Tellme
  $800,000,000

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Trends of 2007

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Top investments of 2007

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• Brash Entertainment
  a 
  $400,000,000
• VMware
   
  $368,500,000
• The Generations Network
   
  $300,000,000
• Facebook
  c 
  $300,000,000
• ZeniMax
  d 
  $300,000,000
• Brightstar
   
  $283,000,000
• AltraBiofuels
  debt round, b 
  $228,500,000
• Zayo Bandwidth
   
  $225,000,000
• United Mobile
  a 
  $200,000,000
• Brenco
   
  $200,000,000

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Top investors of 2007

• Investor
  Amount invested
• New Enterprise Associates
  $1,338,789,000
• Intel Capital
  $1,073,165,000
• Goldman Sachs
  $1,056,270,000
• Oak Investment Partners
  $1,034,720,000
• Sequoia Capital
  $1,016,679,000
• Accel Partners
  $790,880,000
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $695,205,011
• Columbia Capital
  $556,020,000
• Highland Capital Partners
  $550,420,000
• Alta Partners
  $547,340,000

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Top private investors of 2007

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Vinod Khosla
  $243,300,000
• Morten Lund
  $229,455,000
• Steve Case
  $211,500,000
• Ron Burkle
  $200,000,000
• Li Ka-shing
  $105,000,000
• Elon Musk
  $61,000,000
• Ted Leonsis
  $55,500,000
• Ray Lane
  $43,300,000
• Jarl Mohn
  $41,000,000
• Ron Conway
  $40,050,000

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Top acquisitions of 2006

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• The Walt Disney Company
  Pixar
  $7,400,000,000
• Oracle Corporation
  Siebel Systems
  $5,850,000,000
• Hewlett-Packard
  Mercury Interactive
  $4,500,000,000
• Silver Lake Partners & Texas Pacific Group
  Sabre
  $4,300,000,000
• Google
  YouTube
  $1,650,000,000
• Intuit
  Digital Insight
  $1,350,000,000
• Publicis Groupe
  Digitas
  $1,300,000,000
• NBC Universal
  iVillage
  $600,000,000
• E.W. Scripps
  uSwitch
  $366,000,000
• NVidia
  PortalPlayer
  $357,000,000

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Trends of 2006

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Top investments of 2006

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• Demand Media
  a, seed, c 
  $239,798,000
• ProtoStar
  debt round 
  $210,000,000
• HomeAway
  b 
  $160,000,000
• Cortina Systems
  d 
  $132,000,000
• NorSun
   
  $105,790,000
• ITA Software
  a 
  $100,000,000
• MobiTV
  c 
  $100,000,000
• Space Exploration Technologies
  seed 
  $100,000,000
• Aristos Logic
   
  $86,000,000
• Solstice Neurosciences
  b 
  $85,000,000

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Top investors of 2006

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Oak Investment Partners
  $907,748,000
• Intel Capital
  $808,011,509
• Sequoia Capital
  $652,120,000
• Accel Partners
  $609,210,000
• Benchmark Capital
  $602,780,000
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  $541,600,000
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $513,615,000
• Goldman Sachs
  $464,299,000
• Greylock Partners
  $460,050,000
• New Enterprise Associates
  $450,670,000

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Top private investors of 2006

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Elon Musk
  $150,000,000
• John Jarve
  $70,000,000
• Jeff Brody
  $70,000,000
• Jeff Skoll
  $40,000,000
• Sergey Brin
  $40,000,000
• Nick Pritzker
  $40,000,000
• Lachlan Murdoch
  $40,000,000
• Vivi Nevo
  $40,000,000
• Larry Page
  $40,000,000
• Ryan Born
  $30,000,000

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Top acquisitions of 2005

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• Sprint Nextel
  Nextel Communications
  $35,000,000,000
• Adobe Systems
  Macromedia
  $3,400,000,000
• eBay
  Skype
  $2,600,000,000
• IAC
  Ask.com
  $1,850,000,000
• Hellman & Friedman
  DoubleClick
  $1,100,000,000
• Sabre
  Lastminute
  $1,008,000,000
• Yahoo!
  Alibaba
  $1,000,000,000
• Siemens
  CTI Molecular Imaging
  $1,000,000,000
• Fox Interactive Media
  IGN Entertainment
  $700,000,000
• Electronic Arts
  Jamdat Mobile
  $673,600,000

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Trends of 2005

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Top investments of 2005

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• AOL
  post ipo equity 
  $1,000,000,000
• SolarWinds
   
  $200,000,000
• Celframe
   
  $168,000,000
• Canpages
  a 
  $110,000,000
• Webroot
  a 
  $108,000,000
• Current Communications Group
   
  $100,000,000
• FibroGen
   
  $100,000,000
• Solexa
   
  $97,500,000
• Cornice
  c 
  $97,000,000
• Good Technology
  e 
  $95,000,000

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Top investors of 2005

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Google
  $1,100,000,000
• Accel Partners
  $544,780,000
• Intel Capital
  $521,025,000
• Mayfield Fund
  $435,700,000
• Benchmark Capital
  $432,300,000
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  $427,120,000
• VantagePoint Capital Partners
  $419,500,000
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  $414,250,000
• Oak Investment Partners
  $411,270,000
• New Enterprise Associates
  $383,220,000

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Top private investors of 2005

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Vinod Khosla
  $24,500,000
• David Sze
  $21,000,000
• Bill Gurley
  $21,000,000
• Roger Evans
  $21,000,000
• Ron Conway
  $18,800,000
• Unnamed angel investors
  $18,500,000
• Reid Hoffman
  $18,000,000
• Debi Coleman
  $17,000,000
• Dave Duffield
  $15,000,000
• Silvio Scaglia
  $13,200,000

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Top acquisitions of 2004

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• Cendant
  Orbitz Worldwide
  $1,250,000,000
• Yahoo!
  Kelkoo
  $641,250,000
• AOL
  Advertising.com
  $435,000,000
• eBay
  Rent.com
  $415,000,000
• Symantec
  Brightmail
  $370,000,000
• eBay
  Marktplaats.nl
  $290,000,000
• Gateway
  eMachines
  $289,500,000
• Digitas
  Modem Media
  $200,000,000
• MIVA
  Espotting
  $171,600,000
• aQuantive
  Razorfish
  $160,000,000

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Trends of 2004

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Top investments of 2004

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• eHarmony
  b 
  $110,000,000
• Baidu
  c 
  $100,000,000
• Cornice
  b 
  $51,000,000
• Rearden Commerce
   
  $42,000,000
• Zango
  a 
  $40,000,000
• GlassHouse Technologies
  d 
  $38,000,000
• Taigen
  b 
  $38,000,000
• Danger
  d 
  $37,000,000
• ChemoCentryx
   
  $33,000,000
• Wild Brain
   
  $30,000,000

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Top investors of 2004

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Sequoia Capital
  $197,000,000
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  $155,800,000
• Technology Crossover Ventures
  $110,000,000
• Tuputele Ventures
  $110,000,000
• China Equity
  $100,000,000
• China Value
  $100,000,000
• Bridger Management
  $100,000,000
• Venture TDF
  $100,000,000
• Google
  $100,000,000
• VantagePoint Capital Partners
  $76,250,000

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Top private investors of 2004

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Barry Newman
  $42,000,000
• Burton McMurtry
  $42,000,000
• Val Vaden
  $42,000,000
• Vinod Khosla
  $42,000,000
• Jeff Brody
  $15,000,000
• John Jarve
  $15,000,000
• George Soros
  $14,000,000
• Scott Jones
  $13,000,000
• Steve Simon
  $13,000,000
• Mitch Kapor
  $8,000,000

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Top acquisitions of 2003

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• Yahoo!
  Inktomi
  $235,000,000
• eBay
  EachNet
  $150,000,000
• Google
  Applied Semantics
  $102,000,000
• Yahoo!
  AlltheWeb
  $100,000,000
• SK Telecom
  Cyworld
  $7,140,000
• Forrester Research
  Giga Group
  $4,750,000

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Trends of 2003

We analyzed 63 companies that raised $361.7M in total in 2003 to find the trends. Check the visualization of 418 trends of 2003.

Top investments of 2003

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• BlueArc
  d 
  $47,000,000
• Force10 Networks
   
  $41,000,000
• Danger
  d 
  $35,000,000
• RealPage
  a 
  $31,612,500
• Fresh Direct
  a 
  $31,000,000
• Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation
  b 
  $27,000,000
• SilkRoad technology
  a 
  $23,000,000
• Digital Chocolate
  a, b 
  $21,400,000
• Spoke
  c, b 
  $20,900,000
• Cerego Japan Inc.
  a 
  $20,000,000

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Top investors of 2003

• Investor
  Amount invested
• US Venture Partners
  $61,900,000
• Pacesetter Capital Group
  $48,800,000
• Redpoint Ventures
  $44,400,000
• Sequoia Capital
  $42,773,810
• Benchmark Capital
  $41,700,000
• SoftBank Capital
  $41,000,000
• Worldview Technology Partners
  $41,000,000
• Amerindo Investment Advisors
  $41,000,000
• New Enterprise Associates
  $41,000,000
• Venture Strategy Partners
  $35,000,000

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Top private investors of 2003

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Reid Hoffman
  $13,000,000
• Allan Wallack
  $7,000,000
• Josh Kopelman
  $5,450,000
• Tom Allason
  $1,586,460
• John Dean
  $1,000,000
• Bud Colligan
  $600,000
• Eric Hautemont
  $600,000
• Jean-Louis Gassée
  $600,000
• Alain Azan
  $600,000
• Friends and Family
  $250,000

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Top acquisitions of 2002

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• eBay
  PayPal
  $1,500,000,000
• Microsoft
  Rare, Inc.
  $337,000,000
• Symantec
  Recourse Technologies
  $135,000,000
• Apple
  Emagic
  $30,000,000
• Comverse Technology
  Odigo
  $20,000,000
• SBI BioEnergy
  Razorfish
  $8,200,000
• TwoFold Photos
  Webshots
  $2,500,000
• MyLife.com
  HighSchoolAlumni.com
  $1,000,000

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Trends of 2002

We analyzed 33 companies that raised $396.1M in total in 2002 to find the trends. Check the visualization of 289 trends of 2002.

Top investments of 2002

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• XM Radio
  debt round 
  $200,000,000
• GCT Semiconductor
  c 
  $38,000,000
• Affinity.com
  a 
  $25,000,000
• Aperto Networks
  c 
  $22,000,000
• CoreOptics
  b 
  $21,500,000
• comScore
  d 
  $20,000,000
• IronPort Systems
  b 
  $16,500,000
• 170 Systems
  a 
  $14,000,000
• Plastic Logic
  a 
  $13,700,000
• Tealeaf
  c 
  $12,000,000

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Top investors of 2002

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Hearst Ventures
  $208,000,000
• Canaan Partners
  $40,200,000
• National Semiconductor
  $38,000,000
• ITX International Holdings
  $38,000,000
• Pericom Semiconductor
  $38,000,000
• Pequot Ventures
  $38,000,000
• 3V SourceOne Ventures
  $38,000,000
• UOB Venture
  $38,000,000
• Mizuho Venture Capital
  $38,000,000
• Columbia Capital
  $28,100,000

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Top private investors of 2002

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Reid Hoffman
  $23,480,000
• Josh Kopelman
  $17,400,000
• Max Levchin
  $16,500,000
• Peter Thiel
  $16,500,000
• William Portelli
  $11,000,000
• Tony Hsieh
  $7,500,000
• Timothy Draper
  $6,000,000
• Ken Moelis
  $5,000,000
• Peter Lund
  $5,000,000
• John Burton
  $2,650,000

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Top acquisitions of 2001

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• Intel
  Xircom
  $748,000,000
• Vivendi Universal
  MP3.com
  $372,000,000
• Macromedia
  Allaire Corporation
  $360,000,000
• eBay
  iBazar
  $100,000,000
• First Data Corporation
  Achex
  $32,000,000
• Yahoo!
  Sold.com.au
  $30,000,000
• AOL
  InfoInterActive
  $28,200,000
• OmniSky
  Nomadigo
  $26,250,000
• Yahoo!
  Launch Media
  $12,000,000
• Ask.com
  Teoma Technologies
  $4,000,000

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Trends of 2001

We analyzed 23 companies that raised $246.3M in total in 2001 to find the trends. Check the visualization of 183 trends of 2001.

Top investments of 2001

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• PayPal
  d 
  $90,000,000
• BlueArc
  c 
  $72,000,000
• Drugstore.com
   
  $63,000,000
• Danger
  b 
  $36,000,000
• WildTangent
  c 
  $34,000,000
• SkyPilot Networks
  a 
  $29,000,000
• Endeca
  b, a 
  $25,000,000
• RadioScape
  a 
  $24,748,776
• BG Medicine
  a 
  $23,735,300
• Atom Entertainment
  a 
  $22,900,000

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Top investors of 2001

• Investor
  Amount invested
• eBank
  $90,000,000
• Providian Financial
  $90,000,000
• Bankinter
  $90,000,000
• Credit Agricole Private Equity
  $90,000,000
• ING Group
  $90,000,000
• Integral Capital Partners
  $70,000,000
• Hearst Ventures
  $63,000,000
• Redpoint Ventures
  $56,000,000
• SoftBank Capital
  $48,800,000
• Accel Partners
  $47,000,000

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Top private investors of 2001

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Alexander Hutton
  $20,500,000
• Bill Trenchard
  $1,000,000
• Josh Kopelman
  $1,000,000
• Scott Banister
  $1,000,000
• First American Bank
  $100,000
• Brad O'Neill
  $0
• Hadi Partovi
  $0
• Ali Partovi
  $0

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Top acquisitions of 2000

• Who
  Whom
  Amount
• I2 Technologies
  Aspect Development/i2
  $9,300,000,000
• Ask.com
  Direct Hit
  $500,000,000
• Yahoo!
  eGroups
  $432,000,000
• eBay
  Half.com
  $350,000,000
• ON Semiconductor
  Cherry Semiconductor
  $250,000,000
• Yahoo!
  Kimo
  $145,000,000
• Interact Commerce
  ACT! Software
  $50,000,000

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Trends of 2000

We analyzed 41 companies that raised $493.5M in total in 2000 to find the trends. Check the visualization of 313 trends of 2000.

Top investments of 2000

• Company
  Round(s)
  Raised
• Opsware
  b, debt round 
  $165,000,000
• PayPal
  c 
  $100,000,000
• Elance
  a, b 
  $62,000,000
• Sylantro
  c 
  $55,000,000
• OpenTable
  b, c 
  $46,000,000
• Anystream
   
  $44,000,000
• Blue Nile
  b 
  $42,000,000
• QuinStreet
  b 
  $40,000,000
• E Ink
  b 
  $37,000,000
• Snapfish
  b 
  $36,000,000

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Top investors of 2000

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Capital Research and Management
  $220,000,000
• Integral Capital Partners
  $198,000,000
• Benchmark Capital
  $166,000,000
• Goldman Sachs
  $128,000,000
• Amerindo Investment Advisors
  $120,000,000
• The Aurora Funds
  $120,000,000
• Elon Musk
  $100,000,000
• Hikari
  $100,000,000
• Temasek Holdings
  $100,000,000
• TAMC
  $100,000,000

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Top private investors of 2000

• Investor
  Amount invested
• Elon Musk
  $100,000,000
• Hikari Tsushin
  $35,000,000
• Ken Moelis
  $30,000,000
• Rick Salomon
  $30,000,000
• Gary Lauder
  $20,000,000
• Harry Dent Jr
  $15,000,000
• Various Private Investors
  $15,000,000
• Thomas Layton
  $9,300,000
• Timothy Draper
  $5,000,000
• Board of Directors
  $5,000,000

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