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Zendesk

Founders Alexander Aghassipour Mikkel Asger Svane Morten Primdahl

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.65
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Customer Service
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Zendesk appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2007. 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 San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 participants. Despite the Zendesk, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, Gotham Ventures, Bullish. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Twilio, Toba Capital, The Nasiri Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Twilio.org Impact Fund, PagerDuty, Okta Ventures.

The fund was created by Alexander Aghassipour, Mikkel Asger Svane, Morten Primdahl.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stella Connect, Fast Forward. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are B2B, Quality Assurance. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Total investments 11
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.65
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Emarketing Solutions

Education
Marketing
Software
$195K30 Jun 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

U22

Government
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Military
Social Media
Video
Video Streaming
$30K12 Jun 2022 Ukraine, Ukraine

Dream Business System

Consulting
Digital Marketing
E-Learning
Marketing Automation
Training
$577K03 Jun 2022 Torrance, California, United States

Lessonly

Corporate Training
Customer Service
Enterprise Software
Sales
Software
$15M26 Mar 2020 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

tymeshift

Information Technology
SaaS
Scheduling
Software
21 Jan 2020 Fairfield, Iowa, United States
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