The world's most valuable technology startups have become members of the same club. The Wall Street Journal has just launched a new interactive online ranking of startups worldwide with the highest valuation named appropriately the Billion-Dollar Startup Club. The club includes technology startups whose value of exceeds $ 1 billion and which are not yet public. Among their investors, there must be at least one venture capital investor company. Startups backed only by private equity investors are not included. The ranking will be updated regularly.
The value of individual companies is based on assessments of venture capital investors which were obtained in cooperation with VentureSource.com. Currently, the Billion-Dollar Startup Club includes 36 companies - 25 from the USA, 8 from China and 3 from Europe.
The most valuable startups according to the chart are the Chinese manufacturer of mobile phones called Xiaomi with the value of $ 10 billion and the U.S. web storage vendor Dropbox with the same dollar value. In third place, is the U.S. manufacturer of software for visualization of large data volumes Palantir Technologies, valued at $9 billion. Products of this startup are used by the U.S. governmental agencies the FBI and CIA. The fourth place belongs to the Chinese online store Jingdong ($ 7.3 billion) then the first European startup - German online clothing store Zalando ($ 4.9 billion).
Europe is further represented by the Swedish music streaming service Spotify ($ 4 billion) and the Dutch manufacturer of security solutions for the prevention of automobile accidents Mobileye ($ 1.5 billion).
The whole chart including the company profiles of the individual startups, their investors, valuations and funding is available on http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/.
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