Carnegie Mellon University

Total investments

19

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

0.15

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

3

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyE-LearningInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareTrainingEducationAgriculture

Summary

Carnegie Mellon University appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1900. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Pittsburgh. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Carnegie Speech, Solvvy, Voci Technologies. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Carnegie Mellon University, startups are often financed by Innovation Works, AlphaLab, BlueTree Allied Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Innovation Works, Wisconsin Investment Partners, True Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovation Works, Sand Hill Angels, In-Q-Tel.

This organization was formed by Andrew Carnegie. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Carnegie Mellon University works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2012. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.15
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Software (5)
  • Machine Learning (4)
  • Training (3)
  • Agriculture (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (18)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.63
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
1.52

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