Berkshire Hathaway

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Omaha, United States

Total investments

23

Average round size

1B

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

0.12

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

15

Areas of investment
Real EstateSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRetailFinanceBankingConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsOil and Gas

Summary

Berkshire Hathaway appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1839. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Omaha.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of more than 20 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight One97 Communications, Apple, Tetrapod Software. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Financial Services.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The average startup value when the investment from Berkshire Hathaway is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 66 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Berkshire Hathaway performs on 42 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Berkshire Hathaway, startups are often financed by Wells Fargo Securities, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sue Decker. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scott Banister, Royal Bank of Canada, Robert Goldstein.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
7
Exits
15
Rounds per year
0.12
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (6)
  • Retail (5)
  • Banking (5)
  • FinTech (5)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • Taiwan (1)
  • Brazil (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
46
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7B
Group Appearance index
0.09
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
5.07
Strategy success index
1.00

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