Autodesk

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

60

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

51

Rounds per year

1.43

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

14

Areas of investment
Real EstateSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSRoboticsManufacturingConstruction3D Printing

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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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
60
Lead investments
11
Exits
14
Rounds per year
1.43
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (31)
  • SaaS (14)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Manufacturing (11)
  • Artificial Intelligence (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (48)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Israel (3)
  • Canada (3)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
103M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.17
Strategy success index
0.60

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