In 1936 was created Ford Foundation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.
The overall number of key employees were 8.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Ford Foundation, startups are often financed by Emerson Collective, Wendi Murdoch, SunFunder. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Libra Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Libra Foundation, TLSG.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. When the investment is from Ford Foundation the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2017. This Ford Foundation works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Publishing. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Macro, Macro, Univision Communications
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Notable deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
ImpactAlpha | $3M | 17 Oct 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States | ||
BlueMark | $10M | 18 Apr 2023 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Novata | $30M | 28 Feb 2023 | New York, New York, United States | ||
BlueMark | $2M | 27 Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Novata | $21M | 09 Nov 2021 | New York, New York, United States | ||
$65M | 06 Jun 2017 | New York, New York, United States |
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Latest deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
ImpactAlpha | $3M | 17 Oct 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States | ||
BlueMark | $10M | 18 Apr 2023 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Novata | $30M | 28 Feb 2023 | New York, New York, United States | ||
BlueMark | $2M | 27 Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Novata | $21M | 09 Nov 2021 | New York, New York, United States | ||
$65M | 06 Jun 2017 | New York, New York, United States |