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BlackRock

Founders Laurence D. Fink Robert S. Kapito Sue Wagner

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Total investments 322
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$293M
Portfolio companies 257
Rounds per year 8.94
Lead investments 28
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 74
Key employees 20
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Biotechnology
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1988 was created BlackRock, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from BlackRock the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this BlackRock performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the BlackRock, startups are often financed by Tenaya Capital, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Wellington Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Credit Suisse, UBS.

This organization was formed by Sue Wagner. Besides them, we counted 19 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Dropbox, Coupang. 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 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spresso

10 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

RapidSOS

mHealth
Mobile Apps
Public Safety
$75M05 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

Enviria

Energy
Renewable Energy
$218M29 Feb 2024 Frankfort, Maine, United States

Genesis Therapeutics

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Information Technology
$200M21 Aug 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Abcuro

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$155M17 Aug 2023 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

OnKure

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$54M23 May 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Chain Reaction

Blockchain
Cloud Computing
Data Center
Privacy
Semiconductor
$70M23 Feb 2023 Yoqne`am `illit, HaZafon, Israel

Razor Group

Brand Marketing
Business Development
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Retail
$70M21 Dec 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Deepgram

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Developer APIs
Speech Recognition
$47M29 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Women’s health tech brand, Elvie, tops up Series C to $97M

– Elvie, a women’s health tech company, raised $97m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by BGF and BlackRock alongside existing investors including Octopus Ventures.
– It brings Elvie to a valuation of $1.2 billion.
– The Series C will be used to drive more growth through geographical expansion (including entering new markets) and diversifying its product portfolio to target other “key stages” in women’s lives.

Data labeling platform Snorkel AI nabs $85M

– Data labeling platform Snorkel AI announced it has raised $85 million in a series C round co-led by Addition and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with participation from Greylock, GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nepenthe Capital, and Walden.
– The round, which brings Snorkel’s total raised to $135 million and its valuation to $1 billion, will be used to continue scaling its engineering team, according to CEO Alex Ratner.

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Total investments 322
Average round size 293M
Rounds per year 8.94
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 28
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 74
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spresso

10 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

RapidSOS

mHealth
Mobile Apps
Public Safety
$75M05 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

Enviria

Energy
Renewable Energy
$218M29 Feb 2024 Frankfort, Maine, United States

Genesis Therapeutics

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Information Technology
$200M21 Aug 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Abcuro

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$155M17 Aug 2023 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

OnKure

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$54M23 May 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Chain Reaction

Blockchain
Cloud Computing
Data Center
Privacy
Semiconductor
$70M23 Feb 2023 Yoqne`am `illit, HaZafon, Israel

Razor Group

Brand Marketing
Business Development
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Retail
$70M21 Dec 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Deepgram

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Developer APIs
Speech Recognition
$47M29 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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