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Northwestern Mutual Life

Founders John C. Johnston

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$30M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • Finance
Summary

Northwestern Mutual Life is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1857. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Milwaukee.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Northwestern Mutual Life, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Anthemis Group, reinmkr capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Johnsonville Sausage, First Analysis, CDP Sofinov. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Menlo Ventures, Kinnevik AB, Francisco Partners.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2001. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Northwestern Mutual Life is 100-500 millions dollars.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lumanu, NETdelivery, NETdelivery For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Media, Network Security.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Wellthi

Banking
Consulting
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M15 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

CrossKudi

Financial Services
FinTech
$100K02 Nov 2021 Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States

Bright Cellars

Lifestyle
Service Industry
Wine And Spirits
$11M31 Aug 2021 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

HUED

Health Care
$1M09 Aug 2021 New York, New York, United States

Vestwell

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Retirement
Software
$70M20 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States

Socialeads

Apps
Social Media
Software
$1M23 Nov 2020 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Paceline

Financial Services
FinTech
Fitness
$5M20 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Digital Marketing
Digital Media
FinTech
Social Media Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$2M20 Nov 2019 Oakland, California, United States

Lumanu

Digital Marketing
Digital Media
FinTech
Social Media Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$1M22 Mar 2019 Oakland, California, United States
News
Vestwell Raises $70M in Series C Funding

– Vestwell, a NYC-based API technology platform for workplace savings and investing programs, raised $70m in Series C financing.
– The round was led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Fin Venture Capital co-led by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Manulife, Point72, Nationwide Ventures, Allianz Life Ventures, Northwestern Mutual, FinTech Collective, Greenspring Associates, Primary Venture Partners, Teamworthy Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Industry Ventures, and Commerce Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to further expand the team, platform functionality, and servicing for its thousands of partners and clients.

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Total investments 27
Average round size 30M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Wellthi

Banking
Consulting
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M15 Dec 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

CrossKudi

Financial Services
FinTech
$100K02 Nov 2021 Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States

Bright Cellars

Lifestyle
Service Industry
Wine And Spirits
$11M31 Aug 2021 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

HUED

Health Care
$1M09 Aug 2021 New York, New York, United States

Vestwell

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Retirement
Software
$70M20 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States

Socialeads

Apps
Social Media
Software
$1M23 Nov 2020 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Paceline

Financial Services
FinTech
Fitness
$5M20 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Digital Marketing
Digital Media
FinTech
Social Media Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$2M20 Nov 2019 Oakland, California, United States

Lumanu

Digital Marketing
Digital Media
FinTech
Social Media Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$1M22 Mar 2019 Oakland, California, United States
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