Estimated Value $300 million

Last Year's Rank  Valuation #51  $180 million

Business A site dedicated to buying and selling homemade and handmade goods (eBay for arts and crafts).

Location Brooklyn, New York

CEO Rob Kalin

Investors Caterina Fake, Stewart Butterfield, Joshua Schachter, Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures, Accel Partners, Hubert Burda Media

Analysis Etsy, the arts-and-crafts eBay, recently received a $20 million investment, valuing the company at $300 million (6-10x revenue). And business is booming. The company anticipates between gross merchandise sales of $400 million with percentage take (revenue) between $30 - $50 million which is easily triple digit growth from last year. The company is also profitable.