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Today, The Wall Street Journal published its second annual list of the 50 most-promising venture-backed companies. So naturally, Venture Capital Dispatch wanted to find out which venture capital firm owns the most bragging rights.

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To be eligible for “The Next Big Thing” list, companies must have received an equity round of financing in the past three years and be valued at less than $1 billion, as the aim is to identify lesser-known contenders (so no Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, etc.). Dow Jones VentureSource, which tracks venture deals, developed an algorithm (see methodology here) that ranked all the companies in its database, and then the editorial team of VentureWire weighed in.

To read the full, original article click on this link: The Next Big Thing: Which VC Firms Hold Top Bragging Rights? - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

Author: Scott Austin