Analyzing eCommerce Startups Worldwide

Recently Founded

(see 2012 activity)

Blink Collective
Founded
09/12

Giftistic.com
Founded
09/12

BornBarefoot
Founded
09/12

Humbara
Founded
09/12

Coronitas Acessórios
Founded
08/12

Received Angel Funding

(see 2012 activity)

Ondango
Angel Funded
09/12

Sendmybag
Angel Funded
09/12

Ticket Cake
Angel Funded
08/12

Bazaar Corner
Angel Funded
08/12

One Jackson
Angel Funded
08/12

Received VC Funding

(see 2012 activity)

Bigcommerce
Series B
09/12

Yamsafer
Series A
09/12

Vivocha
VC Round
09/12

OneTwoTrip
VC Round
09/12

Shuropody
VC Round
09/12

Recently Acquired

(see 2012 activity)

Valore Books
Acquired
09/12

Bixti.com
Acquired
07/12

LLUSTRE
Acquired
06/12

Foodzie
Acquired
06/12

KikScore
Acquired
06/12

Ranking	City	Startups Founded	Angel Funded	VC Funded	Exits
1	New York (USA)	19	6	23	5
2	San Francisco (USA)	11	11	15	2
3	London (GBR)	10	8	10	1
4	Bangalore (IND)	8	2	3	-
5	Chicago (USA)	7	2	2	1
6	Los Angeles (USA)	4	3	3	-
7	Mountain View (USA)	3	3	3	-
8	New Delhi (IND)	8	-	-	1
9	Moscow (RUS)	5	-	4	-
10	Berlin (DEU)	5	2	1	1

Activity Year	Founded	Angel	VC	Exits
2011	851	220	181	31
2010	804	142	166	15
2009	635	79	98	12
2008	483	67	89	10
2007	296	37	71	5
2006	193	23	40
2005	158	8	18
2004	115	5	4	1
2003	109	1	4
2002	82	1

Founded Year	Founded	Angel	VC	Exits
2011	851	170	34	3
2010	804	141	81	13
2009	635	93	88	14
2008	483	62	53	8
2007	296	50	61	8
2006	193	23	63	8
2005	158	22	69	3
2004	115	2	23	6
2003	109	9	36	4
2002	82	6	10	1

Angel Funding
Founding Year (left) vs First Angel Round Year (top)

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
2012					33
2011				105	33
2010			69	40	8
2009		34	25	12	2
2008	27	14	5	6

VC Funding
Founding Year (left) vs First VC Round Year (top)

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
2012					6
2011				11	21
2010			14	25	13
2009		8	23	13	11
2008	5	7	14	5	3

Ranking	Investments	Investors
1	11	500 Startups, First Round Capital
2	9	SV Angel
3	7	Y Combinator
4	6	TechStars
5	5	New Enterprise Associates
6	4	Charles River Ventures, True Ventures, Dave McClure
7	3	Excelerate Labs, Torrenegra Labs, Andreessen Horowitz, Cabiedes & Partners, FirstMark Capital, Freestyle Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Index Ventures, MuckerLab, Siemer Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Ashton Kutcher, Erik Blachford, Fabrice Grinda
8	2	Astor Capital, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Accel Partners, AlphaLab, Amicus Capital, Atomico, Baseline Ventures, Caixa Capital, Crosscut Ventures, DreamIt Ventures, Felicis Ventures, FF Angel LLC, FLOODGATE, Google Ventures, Hart Ventures, Ideiasnet, Ignition Partners, Lerer Ventures, Lightbank, New World Ventures, NextView Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, Sandbox Industries, SoftBank Capital, SoftTech VC, Start Fund, Talkot Capital, Ali Partovi, Arnon de Mello, Brian Lee, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Hauser, David Wu, friends & family, Hadi Partovi, Jeff Fluhr, Naval Ravikant, Private Angel, Ron Conway, Seth Zalkin, Tim Kendall, Toivo Annus
9	1	10Xelerator, 99 Fahrenheit, Ace Ventures, Altergaia, Amazon, Angel Hub, AngelCube, Band of Angels, Baroda Ventures, BDC Venture Capital, BeGreat, Betaspring, Bootup Labs, Boxee, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Bullpen Capital, Caele Holding, Chenen a.s., Comcast, Consigliere Brand Capital, Copimaj Group, Creative Logic Media, Crossbow Capital Partners Ltd, DG Incubation, DuMont Venture, Edipresse, Empeeric, Enisa, Extreme Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures, FF Angel, First Round, Flat6Labs, Forerunner Ventures, Grupo Intercom, Grupo ITnet, Gurnard Perch Sophisticated Technologies, helecom, HFM, Hummingbird Ventures, i5invest, InitioGroup, Inspire Corporation, Internetbolaget, Interpublic Group, Inversiones en TecnologÃa y Social Media, Itochu Technology Ventures, Iven & Hillmann, K5 Advisors, Madison Angels, Mayfield Fund, MKN Web Solutions, MobileUp, NorthStar Ventures, NXTP Labs, Openfund, Oten Inc., Paua Ventures, points.com, Pretty Penny Fund, Provence Business Angels, PT Jenie Artha Science, R2 International GmbH, Relay Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, Riarma, Robinson Participations, Rogozhin Venture Partners, Sage Hill Group, Samurai Incubate, Seed Hatchery, Seedcamp, Sixela Ventures Pte Ltd, Solstice Benefits Group, Sophrosyne Ventures, SpeedUp IQbator, Spintop Ventures, Spring Singapore, Starke, StartupYard, Sterling Equities, Storie Holdings, LLC, Sugarmaker Media, Tel-Ad Electronics, Telefonica, TruVenturo, Tugboat Ventures, UJ Ventures, Valar Ventures, Vianney Investments, Wigetmedia, World of Avatar, Young Turk Ventures, 2B Angels, 3i Group, a>m ventures, ABRT Venture Fund, Accelerator Ventures, Acton Capital Partners, AFC First Financial, Aggregate Media Funds, Agility Capital, Alumni Entreprendre, Alven Capital, Ambient Sound Investments, Anthem Venture Partners, Anthemis Group, AOL Ventures, App Fund, Arizona Bay Technology Ventures, Aspiration Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, BBVA, Benaroya Capital, BlueRun Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Bootup Labs, Burda Digital Ventures, Business Creation Center Salzburg, CampVentures, CAP Ventures, Capital Factory, Catalunya Bank, Catapult Venture Managers, CDTI, Clearstone Venture Partners, CNM Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Compass Private Equity, Connect Ventures, CORFO, Criterion Capital Partners, CrunchFund, Davy Stockbrokers, Direct Group, Emerson Ventures, Enterprise Ireland, ESADE BAN, Artists & Instigators, Eureka Capital Management, Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept Fund, FINAVES, Fjord Invest, Forerunner Ventures, Founder Collective, Founder's Co-op, Founders Fund, Genacast Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Genesis Partners, Goldcrest Investments, Grand Delta Angels, eujrmoq, HackFwd, Helion Venture Partners, High Line Venture Partners, HighGrowth, Highland Capital Partners, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, Hyde Park Angels, Implistic Capital, Inara Ventures, Inception Micro-Angel Fund - West, Innovation Endeavors, Inspiration Ventures, InterMedia Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, K2 Media, Kibo Ventures, Kima Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, la Caixa, LaunchCapital, LaunchPad Venture Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lincoln Park Capital Fund, Lion Wells Capital, Loeb Enterprises, Lough Shore Investments, Mangrove Capital Partners, MaRS IAF, Matrix Partners, Maveron, Media Development Authority, Menlo Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Mojo Concept International Inc, NeoCarta Ventures, NSA Ventures, North Bay Angels, North West Fund, Nueva Ventures, NYC SeedStart, OCA Ventures, Octapris Investments, Odyssey Research, OMERS Ventures, Origo Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, Plough Penny Partners, PLUS Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, Portland Seed Fund, PPZ Assets Holding Corp., Primera Capital, Propulsion Ventures, Pymar Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Quattro Development, Quotidian Ventures, Raptor Ventures, Real Ventures, Rhodium, RSS Investors Fund, Rustic Canyon Partners, Sand Hill Angels , Shepherd Ventures, SLP Ventures, Southern Cross Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Spinnaker Trust, Stage One Capital, Sunstone Capital, T5 Capital, TANEO fund, Tech Coast Angels, Tekton Ventures, Thunder Road Capital, TomorrowVentures, Greenhill SAVP, Triple Point, TriplePoint Capital, VegasTechFund, Ventech, Venture51, Walnut Venture Associates, WDC, WI Harper Group, Adam D’Angelo, Adam McNamara, Adrian Hanauer, Adrian Locher, Aileen Lee, Akshay Saxena, Alan Laifer, Alan Oken, Çağlar Erol, Albert Prast, Alex Hoye, Alex Le, Alex Zubillaga, Alexis Ohanian, Alison Rosenthal, Alp Saul, Amadeo Brenninkmeijer, Anat Goren, Andrew Gotti, Andrew Sloss, Andy Dunn, Angel Investor, Angus Davis, Anupam Mittal, Anurag (Anu) Nigam, Armando Banuelos, Audrey Maclean, Augustus Johnson, Babak Nivi, Ben Barton, Ben Cannon, Ben Lin, Ben Narasin, Benito MartÃnez, Bill Lee, Bill Liao, Bjoern von Siemens, Blair Effron, Bob Ghoorah, Bob Pasker, Bogomil Alexandrov, Borja Monsalve Piqueras, Brad Garlinghouse, Business Angels, Caglar Erol, Carl Esposti, Carlos Cashman, Caterina Fake, Charles Annenberg, Charles Carmel, Charlie Federman, Chipper Boulas, Chris Burch, Chris Jaqulliard, Chris Yeh, Company Directors, Craig Shapiro, Cyril Vermeulen, Dan Martell, Dan Martin, Daniel Davidson, Daniel Gimenez, Darryl Berger, Dave Goldberg, David Beyer, David Cancel, David Ceolin, David G. Cohen, David Greene, David Li, David Sacks, David Simon, David Tisch, Deborah Parks, Deep Nishar, Dennis Phelps, Derick Thompson, Dharmesh Shah, Dominik Briggs, Doron Dovrat, Drew Nicholson, Dylan Parker, Early Stage Funding, Ed Belove, Ehssan Dariani, Ellen Levy, Enrique Dubois, Eric Chen, Esther Dyson, Eyal Gura, Francesco Marini Clarelli, Francisco Carrero GarcÃa, Frank Caufield, François Derbaix, Gabor Cselle, Gary Jacobs, George Conrades, George Zachary, Giuliano Stiglitz, Graham Langdon, Henry Finn, Hilton Silberg, Howard Barnett, Howard Barnett, Ian Stone, Ilan Kaufthal, Ilya Kondrashov, Ipung Kurnia, Israel Adir, Ivan Levy, James Crane-Baker, Jamie Kennedy, Jane Walerud, Jannis Choulidis, Jason Portnoy, Jaume Goma Llairo, Jay Leupp, Jay Pal Shah, JC Ramos, Jeff Clavier, Jeff Entress, Jeff Fluhr, Jeff Weiner, Jennifer Johnson, Jerry Dumas, JesÃºs Monleon, Jill Preotle, Jim Young, Jochen Doppelhammer, Jodie Fox, Joe Lonsdale, john bialk, John Cunningham, John Mackey, John Maloney, John Moreton, Jon Callaghan, Jonathan Sposato, Jonathan Teo, JosÃ© Carlos Cortizo PÃ©rez, JosÃ© Luis Vallejo, Josh Silverman, Joshua Zipkin, Judson Ain, Judson B. Traphagen, Julie Macklowe, Justin Yoshimura, Kal Vepuri, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Karim Kawar, Karl Jacob, Kash Rehman, Keith Rabois, Kelly Perdew, Kelvin Au, Ken Cron, Ken Fox, Ken ka, Ken Moss, Kendall Fargo, Kevin Plank, Kirsten Green, Klaas Kersting, Kolja Hebenstreit, Kris Nalamlieng, Lance White, Lane Grigsby, Lars Hinrichs, Lena Goldberg, Lodwrick Cook, Louis Monier, Luc Levesque, Lucas Dubs, Luis Mota, Lukasz Gadowski, M. Cem Sertoglu, Magnus Emilson, Marc SchrÃ¶der, Mark Cuban, Mark Gerson, Mark Lee, Mark Mayer, Mark Neuman, Mark Schwartz, Mark Zaleski, Martin Gill, Mary Turner, Matt Ocko, Matteo Fago, Micah Adler, Michael Arrington, Michael Birch, Michael Fox, Michael Kinsbergen, Michael Langer, Michael Loeb, Michael Tanne, Michael Thai, Michael van Swaaij, Michele Azzola, Michiel Muller, Miguel Angel SuÃ¡rez, Mika Salmi, Mike Duda, Mike Greenfield, Mike Knapp, Mike Masterson, Mike Murphy, Mike Slade, Morten Lund, Moss Kadey, Nick Belyaev, Nick Hanauer, Nicolas Gautier, Nihan Colak Erol, Niraj Shah, Niren Hiro, Norm Pozez, Nunung Halim, Oleg Tscheltzoff, Oliver Jung, Olivier Mathiot, Paige Craig, Patrick Spain, Paul Birch, Paul Buchheit, Paul Singh, Pete Higgins, Peter Oertlin, Peter Read, philip schindler, Private Angels, Private Individuals, Rajiv Unnikrishnan, Randy Komisar, Ravi Mhatre, Raymond Tonsing, Rehan yar Khan, Reid Hoffman, Rezart Bajraktari, Richard Barton, Richard Burton, Richard Chen, Rik Heijmen, Rob Emrich, Robert Barnes, Robert Dighero, Roger Hewitt, Rouven Dresselhaus, Rumi Verjee, Rupert Greenhough, Scott Banister, Sean Glass, Sean Meenan, Selina Tobaccowala, Seth Goldstein, Sherry Coutu, Siamak Taghaddos, Sigbjorn Dugal, Spencer Ain, Stefan Glaenzer, Sten Tamkivi, Steve Conine, Steve Newcomb, Steven Segal, Sylviane Norris, Taku Harada, Tan Kai Hooi, Tats Saito, Ted Rheingold, Thibaud Elziere, Thomas Lehrman, Thomas Promny, Thomas Quandt, Tim Draper, Tobias Reichmuth, Todd Mcguyer, Tom McInerney, Tom Rosedale, Tracy McGrady, Travis Reed III, Troy Richards, Undisclosed Party, Undisclosed Private, Usama Fayyad, Various Private Investors, Vicente Arias, Vikas Gupta, Wahid Essale, Will Herman, William Kirby, William LaCalle, Yishan Wong, Yossi Vardi, Yuri Milner, Yuval Tal, Zach Zeitlin, Zelda Marzec, Zo Li, Zohar Gilon

Ranking	Investments	Investors
1	25	Accel Partners
2	14	Index Ventures
3	13	Lightspeed Venture Partners
4	12	Intel Capital
5	10	Highland Capital Partners, Tiger Global Management
6	9	First Round Capital, General Catalyst Partners
7	8	Alven Capital, Balderton Capital, Canaan Partners, eujrmoq
8	7	e.ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel
9	6	Battery Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Shasta Ventures
10	5	Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Felicis Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, True Ventures

Ranking	Acquisitions	Acquirer
1	5	LivingSocial
2	4	eBay, Groupon
3	3	Amazon, Google
4	2	BuyWithMe, Fab, Rakuten, Tippr
5	1	AdventureLink Travel Inc., Alliance Entertainment, America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V., ATG (Art Technology Group), Avisen, Buscapé, Buzzr, Cendant, Criterion Capital Partners, Dealyard.com, Deluxe Corp, Demandware, Dydacomp, Elo7, Etsy, Felix Fund, Flipkart, Gemalto, Gilt City, GSI Commerce, Hearst Corporation, HouseValues, IMJ, Infospace, iProspect, Joyus, JP Selects, Live Gamer, Media General, Merkle, MIH Allegro, Atrinsic, News Corporation, NexTag, Nordstrom, Oversee, OZON.ru, Payz, Inc., Plum District, Private Capital, Promotion Space Group, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, ReachLocal, Recoup, Screamin Daily Deals, Shoe York, Shutterfly, SimpleTuition, SkyWeaver, Snapdeal, Sugar, TechMediaNetwork, Telenet GmbH, TheFind, ThisNext, Ticketmaster, Time, Time Out Group, Tri-Media Integrated Marketing Technologies, Turbosquid, Visa, Wishpot, Yahoo!, Yardi Systems, ZipRunner

Analyzing eCommerce Startups Worldwide

Recent Activity

Recently Founded

Received Angel Funding

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