name

Scott Banister

HQ Location: USA

RANK #9

Scott Banister serves as Board Member at Osaro. He Co-Founded & served as a Director of Technology at IronPort Systems. He co-founded and served as the Chairman at Zivity. He is a Board Member of Osaro. Scott built his career by identifying new markets and shaping innovative products for them. In 1995, he identified search engines as a significant advertising medium and invented the first products to automate marketing across multiple search engines, ultimately creating the bid-for-placement business model. As an initial investor and Director at PayPal, he was a co-inventor of the 'email payments' product now widely used on eBay. He served as a Board Member of PostMates. He also serves as Advisor at SignalFire.

Numbers of Unicorns

21

8551

Rank (Xs)

#9

Investments

175

Exits

85

Numbers of Unicorns

21

8551

Rank (Xs)

#9

Investments

175

Exits

85

All Unicorns

Logo

Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

PayPal Holdings

PayPal Holdings

Series A

$4.5M

333

$1500M

Carta

Carta

Series B

$5M

1480

$7400M

Thumbtack

Thumbtack

Series B

$6.94M

455

$3160M

Forge Global

Forge Global

Series AA

$10M

200

$2000M

ClassPass

ClassPass

Seed

$10.91M

94

$1030M

Teleport

Teleport

$11.32M

97

$1100M

Zappos.com

Zappos.com

Series B

$18M

63

$1130M

Upstart

Upstart

Series A

$19.14M

76

$1450M

Uber

Uber

Seed

$20M

3786

$75710M

Cargomatic

Cargomatic

Series A

$21M

49

$1020M

Checkr

Checkr

Series A

$25M

184

$4600M

Fivetran

Fivetran

Series A

$50M

112

$5600M

Postmates

Postmates

Series D

$56.97M

68

$3900M

Niantic

Niantic

Series A

$70M

129

$9000M

Flexport

Flexport

$75.16M

106

$8000M

Just Egg

Just Egg

Series B

$81.12M

15

$1250M

Turing

Turing

Series B

$100M

11

$1100M

Density

Density

Series C

$116M

9

$1050M

Diamond Foundry

Diamond Foundry

Series B

$215M

8

$1800M

SpaceX

SpaceX

$250M

548

$137000M

Affirm

Affirm

Series F

$2600M

5

$11890M

All $100M+

Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

5095

Slide

Series A

$5M

68

$340M

77

Agari

Series A1

$3M

78

$235M

4561

Remind

$5M

40

$200M

5826

Twenty20

$5M

22

$111.5M

5658

Topsy Labs

$5.24M

38

$200M

3569

Nervana Systems

$5.9M

69

$408M

5540

The EVERY Company (formerly Clara Foods)

$6M

150

$900M

35

Abra (Brokerage)

Series 1

$10.74M

47

$500M

865

Causes (Acquired in 2014)

Series A

$11.77M

13

$155.57M

1517

DuckDuckGo

Series A

$12M

70

$839M

456

Bellhop

Series A

$15.73M

13

$210.45M

1935

Forge

$17M

10

$175M

2256

HappyCo

Series A2

$19.8M

13

$250M

3229

Matternet

$20.5M

11

$221.5M

4827

Sauce Labs

Series C

$23.3M

24

$550M

892

Chain

Series B

$26.58M

6

$150M

1750

EVERY (Food Products)

Series A

$28M

22

$605M

2201

GreenPark

$35M

4

$151M

1305

DeepMind

Series B

$35.69M

18

$650M

3931

Osaro

Series C

$85M

1

$115M

6228

Wonolo

Series C

$130M

4

$496M

3021

LiveOps

$221.2M

1

$249.26M

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