This statistic illustrates the leading venture capitalist firms in Europe as of 2018, by value of potential exits involving unicorns*. Softbank were the leading venture capital company as of 2018 with potential exits amounting to approximately ** billion euros including companies such as ARM (** billion euros), Auto1 (***** billion euros) and OneWeb (*** billion euros). DST Global were second in terms of realized exits amounting to ** billion euros. having a potentially high exit and realizing that are two different measurements in the world of venture capital. Despite Softbank having the highest potential through exits of any firm in Europe they were fifth in total for the amount seen in realized exits.
* Unicorn companies are firms that have received venture capital investment and have subsequently reached a market valuation above one billion U.S dollars.
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