Best Buy
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- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1966 was created Best Buy, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bloomington.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Best Buy, startups are often financed by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Redpoint, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, TransCosmos, Techstars Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OPENAIR Equity Partners, Comporium, Castrol innoVentures.
The top activity for fund was in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this Best Buy performs on 38 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
This organization was formed by Richard M. Schulze.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zubie, Avnera, SiBEAM The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Search Engine, Car Sharing. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 0.11
- Investments by industry
- Wireless (2)
- E-Commerce (1)
- Product Search (1)
- Search Engine (1)
- Natural Language Processing (1) Show 19 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (5)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2007
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 16
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 75M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.50
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.04
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avnera | 01 Sep 2007 | Application Specific Semiconductors, Other Semiconductors, Messaging, Manufacturing, Electronics, Wireless, Audio | Late Stage Venture | 14M | United States, Oregon, Beaverton |
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