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Amazon

Founders Jeff Bezos

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Total investments 148
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$141M
Portfolio companies 103
Rounds per year 4.93
Lead investments 33
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 25
Key employees 6

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Marketplace
  • Software
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1994 was created Amazon, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Seattle.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Amazon performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Amazon the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Amazon, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India, Redpoint. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LivingSocial, Aurora, Twilio. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Internet. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Jeff Bezos. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Reefreshed

Apps
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Grocery
Marketplace
SaaS
Service Industry
Shopping
06 Jun 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Orglance

Freelance
$500K22 Oct 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Agility Robotics

Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics
$150M22 Apr 2022 Albany, Oregon, United States

Mantis Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Industrial Automation
Robotics
Software
21 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

LeedPay

Banking
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
Information Technology
$10M06 Jan 2022 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Amogy

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Product Research
$20M14 Dec 2021 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Pismo

Banking
Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Mobile
PaaS
Payments
SaaS
Software
$108M19 Oct 2021 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

MyGlamm

Beauty
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
$46M26 Jul 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

BAIOTEQ

Health Care
14 May 2021 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
News
Amazon backs Indian wealth management service Smallcase in $40 million funding

Amazon backed Bangalore-based startup Smallcase in a $40m Series C financing round.
– The round was led by Faering Capital and Premji Invest.
– Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures, Beenext, DSP Group, Arkam Ventures, WEH Ventures and HDFC Bank also participated in the new round.
– Smallcase offers a platform to help introduce a new generation of investors to the Indian equity markets.
– The startup offers an in-house team of licensed professionals who offer more than 100 portfolios of stocks and exchange-traded funds, as well as provides its users access to independent investment managers, brokerages and wealth platforms.
– Smallcase has amassed over 3 million users, who are transacting about $2.5 billion each year.

Amazon leads $2.5B funding round in Rivian, maker of the tech giant’s future electric delivery vans

Amazon is pouring more money into Rivian, as the electric vehicle maker announced that the tech giant was among lead investors in a $2.5 billion financing round.
Amazon made the investment through its Climate Pledge Fund, which is aimed at backing companies that accelerate Amazon’s pledge to be net zero carbon across its businesses by 2040.
– The company previously backed Rivian in 2019 in rounds of $700 million and $1.3 billion, and it’s planning to buy 100,000 electric vans from the automaker for its delivery fleet.
Amazon said last October that it will have 10,000 custom electric delivery vehicles on the road as early as 2022, and all 100,000 by 2030.

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Total investments 148
Average round size 141M
Rounds per year 4.93
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 33
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 25
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Reefreshed

Apps
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Grocery
Marketplace
SaaS
Service Industry
Shopping
06 Jun 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Orglance

Freelance
$500K22 Oct 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Agility Robotics

Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics
$150M22 Apr 2022 Albany, Oregon, United States

Mantis Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Industrial Automation
Robotics
Software
21 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

LeedPay

Banking
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
Information Technology
$10M06 Jan 2022 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Amogy

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Product Research
$20M14 Dec 2021 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Pismo

Banking
Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Mobile
PaaS
Payments
SaaS
Software
$108M19 Oct 2021 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

MyGlamm

Beauty
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
$46M26 Jul 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

BAIOTEQ

Health Care
14 May 2021 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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