The data displays a ranking of startup companies valued at more than one billion USD by venture-capital firms worldwide, as of August 2018. As of August 2018, Uber was valued at about 72 billion USD by venture-capital firms.
Additional information on the growth of the sharing economy
The sharing economy is a hybrid market model in which the peer-to-peer sharing of access to goods and services occurs. Many such transactions are facilitated by a company who generally play the role of matching those providing a service or good and those requiring it.
