since 2008

major

1. Womply

2. Guardant Health → IPO

late stage

1. CipherCloud → Lookout

2. airbnb → IPO

3. Lyft → IPO

minor

1. Getaround P2P car rental → IPO (beaten by Turo)

2. Collectrium fine art manager → Christie's Int'l

3. PlateJoy recipes → Healthline

4. Swiftype site search → Elastic → IPO

5. good natured Products bioplastics → IPO

6. landfill gas project

7. Ekso Bionics eksoskeletons → IPO

deadpool or breakeven (22)

• social: Ark search, PerceptualNetworks dating, Presdo events, EveryMe network, PilotWorks cottage food, Life360
• shipping: Bluwrap, Pakible, EquaShip
• finance: Domeyard hedge fund, HireAthena accounting, Arcus, NextForce
• transportation: LocoMobi parking, MissionMotors EV components, Moon Express moon lander, Starsky Robotics self-driving trucks, 2 hyperloops (Arrivo, Virgin)
• other: TripFlavor, Golden, vudu

before 2008

early internet

IGN Entertainment  → IPO (snowball) → private → News Corp

excite → IPO

Infoseek → IPO → Disney

productivity apps

Frame Technology → IPO → Adobe

Netmosphere → CriticalPath

content delivery

Red Swoosh → Akamai

Tumbleweed → IPO

ProxiNet → Puma Technology

EDA/semiconductors

SDA →merger Cadence Design Systems

chipestimate → Cadence Design Systems

High Level Design Systems → Cadence Design Systems

Hierarchical Design → Xilinx

SmartMachines → Brooks Automation