Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Total investments

191

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

79

Rounds per year

2.15

Lead investments

61

Follow on index

0.59

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyBroadcastingGovernmentCareer PlanningHigher EducationEducationMedia and EntertainmentNon ProfitAssociationUniversities

Summary

In 1934 was created Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Alfred P. Sloan Foundation performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, startups are often financed by Laura and John Arnold Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Stefan Glu00e4nzer. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Omidyar Network, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Laura and John Arnold Foundation, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wikimedia Foundation, Center for Open Science. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Non Profit, Education. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive 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.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
191
Lead investments
61
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.15
Follow on index
0.59
Investments by industry
  • Education (109)
  • Non Profit (69)
  • Universities (44)
  • Higher Education (43)
  • Broadcasting (25)
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Investments by region
  • United States (187)
  • France (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
96
Group Appearance index
0.01
Avg. company exit year
5

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