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    Dave McClure has a list on Quora of the most successful 500 Startups companies. Help me identify: which are Asian?

    Hello power of the community,

    There’s a list on Quora of companies 500 Startups has invested in – and which Dave McClure highlights as the most successful/most promising. Who can help me identify startups from Asia?

    There’s Viki (from Singapore), Zipdial (India) and GrabTaxi (Malaysia), but what else?

    The list:

    0 exits >$1B (Unicorns):
    [watch this space; see “up & coming” below]

    6 exits >$100M (Centaurs):

    • MakerBot, acq SSYS $402M, June 2013
    • Wildfire, acq GOOG $350M, July 2012
    • Viki, acq Rakuten $200M, Sept 2013
    • Behance, acq ADBE ~$150M, Dec 2012
    • Simple, acq BBVA $117M, Feb 2014
    • Sunrise, acq MSFT $100M, Feb, 2015

    30+ exits

    • AppStores (acq InMobi)
    • Backtype (acq Twitter)
    • Blink Booking (acq Groupon)
    • Brightnest (acq Angie’s List)
    • Cardmunch (acq LinkedIn)
    • Connected (acq LinkedIn)
    • Creative Market (acq Autodesk)
    • Crocodoc (acq Box)
    • FeeFighters (acq Groupon)
    • Flowtown (acq DemandForce/Intuit)
    • Foodspotting (acq OpenTable)
    • Gyft (acq First Data)
    • Khush (acq Smule)
    • Lagoa (acq Autodesk)
    • Lettuce (acq Intuit)
    • Lexity (acq Yahoo)
    • Lightbox (acq Facebook)
    • Little Eye Labs (acq Facebook)
    • Lovely (acq RentPath)
    • Moonfruit (acq YELL Group)
    • Other Inbox (acq ReturnPath)
    • Punchd (acq Google)
    • Rapportive (acq LinkedIn)
    • Streem (acq Box)
    • TasteSpace (acq DeliveryHero)
    • TeachStreet (acq Amazon)
    • TinyPost (acq TripAdvisor)
    • TouristEye (acq LonelyPlanet)
    • Versly (acq Cisco)
    • Vessel (acq Marketo)
    • Zappli (acq Shopzilla)
    • Zencoder (acq Brightcove)
    • ZipDial (acq Twitter)

    other up & coming 500 Unicorns & Centaurs:

    • Credit Karma (Founders Fund, Felicis, QED, Google, Tiger)
    • Twilio (Kapor, Founders Fund, USV, Bessemer)
    • GrabTaxi (Vertex, GGV, Tiger, Softbank)
    • TalkDesk (Storm)
    • Smule (Bessemer, Floodgate, Shasta)
    • Intercom (Freestyle, Social+Capital, Bessemer)
    • Ipsy (Crosscut, Bullpen)
    • Sendgrid (Techstars, Foundry, Bessemer)
    • Remind (First Round, Social+Capital, KP)
    • VivaReal (Monashees, Kaszek, Valiant, Spark)
    • Udemy (MHS, Lightbank, Norwest, Insight)
    • WePay (YC, August, Highland, Ignition, FTV)
    • Virool (YC, Fabrice Grinda, Menlo, DFJ, DST)
    • BarkBox (Bertelsmann, RRE, Lerer, Polaris)
    • TheRealReal (Greycroft, Canaan, Industry, Interwest)
    • Sprig (MHS, Battery, Great Oaks, Accel, Greylock)
    • PlanGrid (YC, Sequoia)
    • Tradesy (Launchpad, Rincon, KP)
    • Life360 (fbFund, Bullpen, DCM, Bessemer)
    • Peertransfer (Spark, Maveron, Accel, QED, Bain)
    • Vungle (AngelPad, SoftTech, Google, Crosslink)
    • eLaCarte (YC, Lightbank, Intel)
    • Gengo (Atomico, Intel, NTT, Iris)
    • Bustle (Social+Capital, General Catalyst)
    • Zozi (Launch Capital, ZIG Capital)
    • ContaAzul (Monashees, Ribbit)
    • ToutApp (Founder Collective, Sigma West, A16Z)
    • Mayvenn (Base, Launch Capital, Silicon Badia)
    • OwnLocal (YC, Lerer, Baseline)

    The original post on Quora is here

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