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Carnegie Mellon University

Founders Andrew Carnegie

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 3
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Training
  • Agriculture
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Skild AI

Information Technology
Robotics
$300M09 Jul 2024 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

ViralMoment

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Video
$2M25 Jan 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Arieca

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
$6M17 May 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Delta Trainer

Fitness
Software
Training
Wearables
Wellness
$6M10 Jan 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Finish Robotics

Construction
Marketing
$25K01 Aug 2021 Sewickley, Pennsylvania, United States

Wisy

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Grocery
SaaS
Sales
$900K15 Aug 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Sparkline, Inc.

Commercial Real Estate
Computer Vision
Parking
Robotics
20 Jun 2020 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Solvvy

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Information Technology
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
$4M12 Dec 2016 California, United States

PieceMaker Technologies

3D Printing
E-Commerce
Manufacturing
Retail
Retail Technology
$1M21 Apr 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Skild AI

Information Technology
Robotics
$300M09 Jul 2024 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

ViralMoment

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Video
$2M25 Jan 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Arieca

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
$6M17 May 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Delta Trainer

Fitness
Software
Training
Wearables
Wellness
$6M10 Jan 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Finish Robotics

Construction
Marketing
$25K01 Aug 2021 Sewickley, Pennsylvania, United States

Wisy

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Grocery
SaaS
Sales
$900K15 Aug 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Sparkline, Inc.

Commercial Real Estate
Computer Vision
Parking
Robotics
20 Jun 2020 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Solvvy

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Information Technology
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
$4M12 Dec 2016 California, United States

PieceMaker Technologies

3D Printing
E-Commerce
Manufacturing
Retail
Retail Technology
$1M21 Apr 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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