Tuesday, March 11, 2025

"PitchBook 100: The world’s most valuable VC-backed companies"

From PitchBook, March 7:

Public and private markets are converging. Few corners of the market show the impact of that convergence more vividly than pre-IPO startups, whose private shares now readily trade on a number of secondary exchanges. The PitchBook 100 ranks the most valuable venture-capital-backed companies globally alongside insights into their secondary trading activity.

The rankings are determined by the most recent valuation in primary funding rounds (either reported or estimated by PitchBook based on cap table data) or disclosed secondary rounds. Learn more about PitchBook’s Valuation Methodology here.

This league table also incorporates secondary valuation estimates provided by Caplight and Notice.co. For detailed information about their methodologies, please visit their respective websites.

Based on data through Feb. 21, 2025

Rank Company Last round valuation Last round valuation date Notice.co valuation estimate Caplight valuation estimate* HQ
1
SpaceX
$350BDecember 2024$349.4B$378.6BHawthorne, Calif.
2
ByteDance
$220BMarch 2023$210.1B$265.9BBeijing
3
OpenAI
$157BOctober 2024$158.6B$241.8BSan Francisco
4
Ant Group
$78.7BJuly 2023--Hangzhou, China
5
Stripe
$70BSeptember 2024$80.8B$93.5BSouth San Francisco, Calif.
6
SHEIN
$66BMay 2023-$53.2BSingapore
7
Databricks
$62BDecember 2024$64.2B$67.6BSan Francisco
8
xAI
$50BNovember 2024-$114.7BPalo Alto, Calif.
9
Revolut
$45BAugust 2024$45B$41.9BLondon
10
Waymo
$45BOctober 2024--