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Uber Attains Eye-Popping New Levels of Funding

Only a few months ago, Silicon Valley start-ups were celebrated for drawing investors into paying for multibillion-dollar valuations.
But on Friday Uber, the car ride service, climbed to an entirely new level.
The company announced on Friday that it had raised $1.2 billion from investors at an eye-popping $17 billion valuation.
It is the biggest haul so far by any member of Silicon Valley’s “11-digit club,” those companies that have gained valuations of at least $10 billion. Among them are Airbnb, the home-rental site; Dropbox, the online file-storage provider; and Xiaomi, a Chinese handset maker.
But Uber’s new net worth, which excludes the latest round of money, is one of the highest ever attained by a start-up.
And it is much higher than it was just 10 months ago, when the company raised money at a roughly $3.5 billion level.
At its new valuation, the four-year-old service commands a higher worth than traditional car rental companies like Hertz Global Holdings and Avis Budget and almost equal to those of the celebrated tech ventures Twitter and LinkedIn.
Behind the soaring numbers is the hunger of investors with money to burn who are eager for a piece of fast-growing companies. About $10.7 billion was invested into start-ups in the first three months of the year, the most in at least three years, according to Dow JonesVentureSource.
Much of that money has gone into the biggest businesses in their markets, with investors betting that they will continue to post enormous growth. But some second-place players are cashing in, too: Lyft, a smaller car service provider, raised money from investors like the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group at a roughly $700 million valuation earlier this year.
Still, few companies have proved as alluring to would-be financial backers as Uber, which four years ago pioneered a new kind of business model, one in which a start-up replaced a part of users’ daily lives. Its service allows users to call up cars from their smartphones, a category that has swelled with imitators and competitors like Lyft, which operates in dozens of cities.
ref http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/uber-raises-new-funds-at-17-billion-valuation/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

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