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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Total investments 191
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 79
Rounds per year 2.15
Lead investments 61
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.59
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Non Profit
  • Universities
  • Higher Education
  • Broadcasting
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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Total investments 191
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 2.15
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 61
Follow on index 0.59
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.01
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