Adidas

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Total investments

8

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.11

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.38

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareGamingPC GamesAppsMobile AppsSportsNewsOnline GamesVideo Games

Summary

In 1949 was created Adidas, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Herzogenaurach. The company was established in Europe in Germany.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The fund was created by Frank Dassler. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the Adidas, startups are often financed by Union Square Ventures, Science, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are WndrCo, Soma Capital, SignalFire. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sapphire Sport, New Enterprise Associates, Michael Zeisser.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Computer. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PlayVS, GreenPark Sports, Onefootball. For fund there is no 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.

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Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
1
Rounds per year
0.11
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Gaming (3)
  • Biotechnology (3)
  • Online Games (2)
  • Video Games (2)
  • Apps (1)
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Investments by region
  • Finland (3)
  • United States (4)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
140M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Infinited Fiber Company 31 May 2023 Biotechnology Early Stage Venture 15M Uusimaa, Espoo, Finland
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