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MasterCard

Founders Wells Fargo

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Total investments 121
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$30M
Portfolio companies 97
Rounds per year 2.09
Lead investments 23
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 10
Key employees 16

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Payments
  • Software
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1966 was created MasterCard, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Purchase.

Besides them, we counted 14 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 Mozido, IZettle, Mu Sigma. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile Payments, Software.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from MasterCard is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this MasterCard performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the MasterCard, startups are often financed by Mastercard Start Path, Index Ventures, Creandum. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, SEB Private Equity, RRE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, 83North, Square Peg Capital.

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Notable deals

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AtoB

FinTech
Payments
Sustainability
Transportation
$130M19 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Form3

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Financial Services
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$63M10 Sep 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Hello Alice

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Information Technology
04 Apr 2024 Houston, Texas, United States

Wellthi

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Consulting
Financial Services
FinTech
27 Jan 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Paypa Plane

Financial Services
FinTech
$10M31 Mar 2023 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

PrescriberPoint

Health Care
31 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Omega

Accounting
Financial Services
Legal Tech
Payments
$4M01 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Teampay

FinTech
SaaS
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$47M30 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

TomoCredit

Credit
Credit Cards
FinTech
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$22M21 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Doconomy Raises $17M in Funding

– Doconomy from Stockholm develops a global climate impact technology company.
– Series D $17M round was led by CommerzVentures with participation from existing investors such as Mastercard, Wiklöf Holding and Ålandsbanken.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate continued expansion, support the further development of its impact applied portfolio; enabling impact calculations on transactions, lifestyle, products and companies of all shapes and sizes, and recruit new hires.

Bilt Rewards banks $60M growth on a $350M valuation to advance credit card benefits for renters

– Bilt Rewards, a loyalty program for property renters to earn points on rent with no fees and build a path toward homeownership, announced a round of $60 million in growth funding that values the company at $350 million.
– The investment comes from Wells Fargo and Mastercard and a group of the nation’s largest real estate owners, including Blackstone Group, AvalonBay Communities, Douglas Elliman, Equity Residential, GID-Windsor Communities, LENx, The Moinian Group, Morgan Properties, Starwood Capital Group and Related.

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Total investments 121
Average round size 30M
Rounds per year 2.09
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.76

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AtoB

FinTech
Payments
Sustainability
Transportation
$130M19 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Form3

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$63M10 Sep 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Hello Alice

Digital Marketing
Information Services
Information Technology
04 Apr 2024 Houston, Texas, United States

Wellthi

Banking
Consulting
Financial Services
FinTech
27 Jan 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Paypa Plane

Financial Services
FinTech
$10M31 Mar 2023 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

PrescriberPoint

Health Care
31 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Omega

Accounting
Financial Services
Legal Tech
Payments
$4M01 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Teampay

FinTech
SaaS
Software
$47M30 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

TomoCredit

Credit
Credit Cards
FinTech
Personal Finance
$22M21 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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