Bezos Expeditions

Summary

In 2005 was created Bezos Expeditions, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Mercer Island. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this Bezos Expeditions performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Bezos Expeditions the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The fund was created by Jeff Bezos. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Twitter, Juno Therapeutics, Workday. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Bezos Expeditions, startups are often financed by Greylock Partners, Spark Capital, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trilogy Equity Partners, Sigma Partners, Greylock Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Spark Capital, CRV, Sigma Partners.