The Wall Street Journal’s and the Dow Jones VentureSource’s Billion Dollar Club includes startups that venture-capital investors believe are worth at least $1 billion and have raised money in the past three years, and four Indian startups make the list.
Ranked 5th of 73 companies listed is Flipkart Internet Private Ltd., India’s largest e-commerce company by sales valued at $11 billion. Snapdeal, a rival online marketplace, ranks 30th with a value of $2 billion. Online-ad company InMobi, valued at $2.5 billion, and Ola Cabs valued at $1 billion are also included in the club.
India is expected to become home to the world’s second-largest number of startups, after the U.S., in the next couple of years as investors pipe in cash to new companies.