Startup WeWork entered the list of the most expensive with a capitalization of more than $ 16 billion

Recently, a WeWork startup aimed at finding a suitable place in coworking raised a new round of investment. As a result, the company's capitalization has grown to $ 16 billion. Due to this, WeWork has taken its place among the most expensive startups in the world.

In recent years, the upward trend in market capitalization of startups has become similar to the bubble of the 2000s, when investors invested money in any web projects and subsequently most of them went bankrupt. In the case of start-ups, there is a slightly different situation - if they do not reach a return on investment, they should show positive growth metrics, which subsequently should guarantee profit growth or the ability to “raise” a new round of investments.
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Based on the latest data on the volume of investment in the project, Statista analysts have prepared an infographic with the very expensive startups of this year. The first place is traditionally occupied by Uber with a capitalization of $ 51 billion in August 2015, and the second place is occupied by the Chinese Xiaomi with a capitalization of $ 46 billion. The Chinese smartphone maker has recently shown explosive growth due to high sales of its own smartphones.

At the beginning of the year, WeWork's capitalization was at the level of $ 1.5 billion and the company has attracted investment throughout the past year. The company received a significant share of investments in the summer - about $ 400 million invested by Fidelity Management & Research Co. together with existing investors. One of the main competitors of WeWork Boston Properties Inc. at that time, owned 4.18 million square meters of space in property versus 325.16 thousand square meters of leased WeWork. But even with this in mind, WeWork's capitalization then rose above $ 10 billion compared with $ 19 billion from Boston Properties Inc. even if you own a much larger amount of real estate. This growth demonstrates investor confidence in the potential growth of WeWork in the near future, so we should expect only continued growth in the company's capitalization.