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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