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Qatar Investment Authority

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Total investments 102
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$373M
Portfolio companies 77
Rounds per year 5.37
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 21
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Health Care
  • Mobile
Summary

In 2005 was created Qatar Investment Authority, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Asia in Qatar. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Doha.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Property Management, Real Estate. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Lu.com, Flipkart. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Qatar Investment Authority, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, General Atlantic, Fuel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are T. Rowe Price, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Palo Alto Investors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, SeventySix Capital, Kleiner Perkins.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Qatar Investment Authority performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Qatar Investment Authority is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Precede Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$57M05 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Star Therapeutics

$90M05 Sep 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Oricell Therapeutics

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$45M28 Feb 2023 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Ensoma

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$85M05 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

JenaValve Technology

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$100M31 Aug 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Senda Biosciences

Biotechnology
Life Science
$123M16 Aug 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Ventus Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$140M09 Feb 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Travelling Folks

Adventure Travel
Business Travel
Taxi Service
Tourism
Travel Accommodations
Travel Agency
$29K01 Dec 2021 India, India

T-knife

Biotechnology
$110M02 Aug 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
News
India’s VerSe Innovation raises over $450 million to expand Dailyhunt and Josh apps globally

– VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of Dailyhunt and Josh, raised $450m funding.
– The round was led by Siguler Guff, Baillie Gifford and others.
– Existing investors Sofina Group, Qatar Investment Authority and BCap participated in the round.
– The startup claimed that Josh has amassed over 115 million monthly active users, 56 million of whom use the app each day. Dailyhunt has amassed over 300 million monthly active users.

Turkey’s first decacorn: Trendyol raises $1.5B at a $16.5B valuation

– Trendyol, an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, raised $1.5bn funding.
– The round was led by General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority.
– The company plans to continue investing in nationwide infrastructure, technology and logistics and toward accelerating digitalization of Turkish SMEs.

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Total investments 102
Average round size 373M
Rounds per year 5.37
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 21
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Precede Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$57M05 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Star Therapeutics

$90M05 Sep 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Oricell Therapeutics

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$45M28 Feb 2023 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Ensoma

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$85M05 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

JenaValve Technology

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$100M31 Aug 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Senda Biosciences

Biotechnology
Life Science
$123M16 Aug 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Ventus Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$140M09 Feb 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Travelling Folks

Adventure Travel
Business Travel
Taxi Service
Tourism
Travel Accommodations
Travel Agency
$29K01 Dec 2021 India, India

T-knife

Biotechnology
$110M02 Aug 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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