... fund with significant profits and strengthened its position in India. Dropbox Accel supported Dropbox during its growth phase, helping the company become one of the largest providers of cloud storage and collaboration services. Examples of Unsuccessful Deals Groupon Accel invested in Groupon, a group-buying platform that exhibited impressive growth in the early 2010s. However, the company encountered challenges related to competition and changing consumer preferences, resulting in a decline in its market capitalization....

... profitable in venture capital history as Apple became one of the largest and most valuable companies in the world. Google In 1999, Sequoia Capital invested $12.5 million in Google at the Series A stage when the company was not yet widely known. This investment became one of the most successful deals in venture capital, as Google (now Alphabet) became the largest search engine and technology company in the world. WhatsApp Sequoia Capital invested $60 million in WhatsApp, making it one of the largest venture capital investments in the company's ...

... rounds of the first half of the year are concentrated in this sector: OpenAI : The generative AI developer OpenAI raised approximately $40 billion in funding—one of the largest rounds in the industry's history; Meta and Scale AI : The corporation Meta invested $14.3 billion in the AI infrastructure startup Scale AI , marking one of the largest deals of the year; Thinking Machines Lab : The new startup of former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati secured about $2 billion in a seed round at a valuation of around $12 billion, setting a record for early-stage funding; Anduril Industries : The startup Anduril,...

... $80 billion. Slack The firm supported Slack , a startup that developed a popular platform for team collaboration and corporate communication. Slack went public and was subsequently acquired by Salesforce for $27.7 billion. Examples of Unsuccessful Deals Jumo Jumo is a fintech startup that did not meet expectations. Despite early investments from Andreessen Horowitz, the company faced challenges in scaling its business and failed to achieve projected growth targets. Jawbone Just like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz invested in Jawbone, a company producing wearable devices....

... investments in security become the foundation for the market's long-term sustainability. Solutions like those offered by Luntry provide protection at all levels of infrastructure, which is critically important for sectors such as banking, retail, and IT. The investment from Solar Ventures in Luntry demonstrates that the information security market in Russia continues to evolve actively. Such deals highlight the high demand for specialized solutions and affirm the importance of security in container architecture for modern companies. Support from Rostelecom and Solar Ventures will allow Luntry to reach new heights while continuing to offer ...