Living in silicon valley means you will be surrounded by numerous start-ups. But how many of these startups actually succeed? Here success is identified as crossing the ‘Billion Dollar’ mark. Most of the companies are venture-backed private companies. The claim of this visualization is to show how the Billion dollar start-up boom happened after 2014.
The visualization tracks all the start-ups who touched the billion dollar mark and how they went beyond that in a span of 2 years. The visualization defines a semi-circle of 3 radii. The first one marks the billion dollar mark, the second marks $10 billion and the 3rd one marks $40 billion. The start-ups across 3 major geographic locations are marked, viz., United States, Asia, Europe, and others. The visualization being interactive has a time slider below which shows dates from the year 2014 to 2017. Also, you can differentiate the companies on the basis of the industry. The drop down list shows different types of industries through which you can drill down to a specific industry or you can look at all the industries at once.
The visualization strongly supports the claim to show the boom of startups after the year 2014. The idioms used could have been a bit different so as to show the name of the companies extensively but the main claim of the visualization is to show the ‘Boom’ which appropriately displayed.
Reference: http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/