BNY Mellon

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Total investments

43

Average round size

59M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

0.18

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

4

Areas of investment
Financial SoftwareAsset ManagementVertical Market SoftwareSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFinanceBanking

Summary

BNY Mellon is the famous VC, which was founded in 1784. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. BNY Mellon seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

Besides them, we counted 39 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from BNY Mellon is 50-100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this BNY Mellon performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the BNY Mellon, startups are often financed by Pivot Investment Partners, Credit Suisse, Primary Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Credit Suisse, BlackRock, Wells Fargo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BlackRock, UBS, Societe Generale.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Business Development, Financial Services. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, Fnality International, R3.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
43
Lead investments
3
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.18
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (27)
  • FinTech (16)
  • Software (15)
  • Finance (9)
  • Banking (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (29)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Israel (2)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
897M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.06
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Abbey Cross 13 Dec 2023 Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Seed 6M England, London, United Kingdom
Proxymity 05 May 2020 Financial Services Early Stage Venture 20M England, London, United Kingdom
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