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Best Buy

Founders Richard M. Schulze

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.11
Lead investments 1
Exits 4
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Wireless
  • E-Commerce
  • Product Search
  • Search Engine
  • Natural Language Processing
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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E-Commerce
Natural Language Processing
Product Search
Search Engine
$1M27 Feb 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Automotive
Car Sharing
Hardware
Mobile Apps
Software
01 May 2012 Minnesota, United States

Mydeo

Internet
Social Media
Video
01 Oct 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Avnera

Application Specific Semiconductors
Audio
Electronics
Manufacturing
Messaging
Other Semiconductors
Wireless
$14M01 Sep 2007 Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Android
Telecommunications
Wireless
$27M24 Mar 2000 Virginia, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 0.11
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 1
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AddStructure

E-Commerce
Natural Language Processing
Product Search
Search Engine
$1M27 Feb 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Automotive
Car Sharing
Hardware
Mobile Apps
Software
01 May 2012 Minnesota, United States

Mydeo

Internet
Social Media
Video
01 Oct 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Avnera

Application Specific Semiconductors
Audio
Electronics
Manufacturing
Messaging
Other Semiconductors
Wireless
$14M01 Sep 2007 Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Android
Telecommunications
Wireless
$27M24 Mar 2000 Virginia, United States
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