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FOUNDER.org

Founders Michael Baum

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 4.18
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 4
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Health Care
  • Health Diagnostics
Summary

In 2012 was created FOUNDER.org, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the FOUNDER.org, startups are often financed by EIT Digital Accelerator, Sequoia Capital Israel, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Michael Baum, InnoSpring Seed Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Michael Baum, New Enterprise Associates.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Pharmaceutical, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight KONUX, ICEYE, Clara Health. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

This organization was formed by Michael Baum.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Upward Farms

Agriculture
AgTech
Farmers Market
Farming
$5M31 May 2018 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Eko

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Medical Device
mHealth
Software
$5M01 Mar 2018 Oakland, California, United States

HeySuccess

Artificial Intelligence
Career Planning
Education
Higher Education
Universities
$200K23 Sep 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

KONUX

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Railroad
$7M08 Apr 2016 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Verdigris Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Energy Management
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$6M24 Mar 2016 California, United States

AlphaSheets

Collaboration
Finance
Professional Services
Software
$5M05 Dec 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Stringr

News
Photography
Video
$1M01 Dec 2015 New York, New York, United States

ICEYE

Aerospace
Agriculture
AgTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$2M12 Nov 2015 Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

Audacy

Aerospace
Internet
Telecommunications
$2M01 Aug 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 46
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 4.18
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.41

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Upward Farms

Agriculture
AgTech
Farmers Market
Farming
$5M31 May 2018 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Eko

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Medical Device
mHealth
Software
$5M01 Mar 2018 Oakland, California, United States

HeySuccess

Artificial Intelligence
Career Planning
Education
Higher Education
Universities
$200K23 Sep 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

KONUX

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Railroad
$7M08 Apr 2016 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Verdigris Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Energy Management
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$6M24 Mar 2016 California, United States

AlphaSheets

Collaboration
Finance
Professional Services
Software
$5M05 Dec 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Stringr

News
Photography
Video
$1M01 Dec 2015 New York, New York, United States

ICEYE

Aerospace
Agriculture
AgTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$2M12 Nov 2015 Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

Audacy

Aerospace
Internet
Telecommunications
$2M01 Aug 2015 Mountain View, California, United States
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