Forget Billion Dollar Valuations — These 10 Companies Raised Billion Dollar Rounds

In the words of Sean Parker in the movie, “The Social Network”: “A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”

And that’s what these companies raised in one round: A billion dollars.

Didi Kuaidi, Uber, and Social Finance all raised $1B+ round financings in Q3’15, with both Didi Kuaidi and Uber raising multiple billion-dollar rounds in the quarter. Didi Kuaidi and Social Finance’s rounds made them the 10th and 11th companies to raise $1B or more in a single round. Also of note, Social Finance’s $4B valuation is the lowest disclosed valuation for any of the companies involved in the $1B+ financings.

Overall, there have now been a total of 16 $1B+ financings to VC-backed companies since 2010, including 6 to Uber, and 2 to Didi Kuaidi.

The full list is below.

B+ Round

The B+ Round Club
Company	Latest
Last Disclosed Valuation	Date	Select Round Investors
(Didi Kuaidi)	$1B (Series F-II)	$16.5B	09/2015	Alibaba Group, Capital International Private Equity Funds, Coatue Management, Tencent
	$1.2B (Private Equity)	$51B	08/2015	Baidu, CITIC Securities International, Hillhouse Capital Management, Ping An Insurance
	$1B (Series E)	$4B	08/2015	Baseline Ventures, DCM Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Softbank Corp., Third Point
	$1.5B (Growth Equity)	$25.5B	06/2015	Fidelity Investments, General Atlantic, GGV Capital, Hillhouse Capital Management
	$1B (Series E)	$5B	06/2015	Softbank Corp
	$1B (Series D)	$12B	01/2015	Fidelity Investments, Google
	$1.1B (Series E)	$46B	12/2014	All-Stars Investment, Digital Sky Technologies, GIC Special Investments, Yunfeng Capital
	$1B (Series G)	$15B	07/2014	Accel Partners, Digital Sky Technologies, GIC Special Investments, Tiger Global Management
	$1.5B (Venture Capital)	Undisclosed	04/2011	Digital Sky Technologies, Tiger Fund, Walmart
	$1.5B (Series D)	$50B	01/2011	Digital Sky Technologies, Goldman Sachs