Cargill

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Minneapolis, United States

Total investments

42

Average round size

51M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

0.26

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

1

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFood and BeverageFood ProcessingAgTechTrading PlatformOrganic FoodAgricultureFarming

Summary

Cargill appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1865. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Minneapolis. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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 more than 20 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Puris, GoCargo.com, ePropose We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Trading Platform, Internet.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Cargill, startups are often financed by Pangaea Ventures, Walden Riverwood Ventures, AquaSpark. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden Riverwood Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Municipal Employee Retirement System. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Walden Riverwood Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Pangaea Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
42
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.26
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (16)
  • Farming (15)
  • Food and Beverage (11)
  • Software (9)
  • Biotechnology (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (22)
  • Chile (2)
  • France (1)
  • Denmark (2)
  • Germany (2)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
71M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
2.23
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
3fbio 15 Feb 2024 Biotechnology, Information Technology, Information Services, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, 3D Technology Late Stage Venture Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
AMSilk 11 May 2021 Biotechnology Late Stage Venture 34M Germany, Bavaria, Germany
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