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Autodesk

Founders John Walker

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Total investments 60
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 1.43
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 14
Key employees 7

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

In 1982 was created Autodesk, 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 San Rafael.

This organization was formed by John Walker. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Carbon3D, 3D Robotics, OnLive. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Analytics, Construction.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common 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. Opposing the other organizations, this Autodesk works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Autodesk, startups are often financed by TPY Capital, Greylock Partners, 83North. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GE Ventures, Viola Ventures, TPY Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viola Ventures, TPY Capital, Staenberg Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sloyd

3D Technology
Video Games
$3M06 Jun 2024 Oslo, Norway

VAPAR

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$3M22 Jan 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Transcend Software

Environmental Engineering
SaaS
Software
$20M03 Aug 2023 New Jersey, United States

Avalanche Energy

$40M24 Apr 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Arcturus

Apps
Augmented Reality
Gaming
Mobile Apps
$11M16 Nov 2022 California, United States

CloudNC

Computer
Industrial
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Software
$45M21 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Eyrus

Analytics
Construction
Mobile
SaaS
$10M16 Feb 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Factory_OS

Building Material
Real Estate
$55M20 Nov 2020 Vallejo, California, United States

aPriori Technologies

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Simulation
Software
$26M10 Sep 2019 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 60
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 1.43
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sloyd

3D Technology
Video Games
$3M06 Jun 2024 Oslo, Norway

VAPAR

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$3M22 Jan 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Transcend Software

Environmental Engineering
SaaS
Software
$20M03 Aug 2023 New Jersey, United States

Avalanche Energy

$40M24 Apr 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Arcturus

Apps
Augmented Reality
Gaming
Mobile Apps
$11M16 Nov 2022 California, United States

CloudNC

Computer
Industrial
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Software
$45M21 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Eyrus

Analytics
Construction
Mobile
SaaS
$10M16 Feb 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Factory_OS

Building Material
Real Estate
$55M20 Nov 2020 Vallejo, California, United States

aPriori Technologies

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Simulation
Software
$26M10 Sep 2019 Massachusetts, United States
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