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Cascade Investment

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$142M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.64
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Aerospace
  • Biopharma
  • Chemical
  • Product Design
Summary

In 1985 was created Cascade Investment, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Colorado Springs. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this Cascade Investment performs on 17 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2004. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. When the investment is from Cascade Investment the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Cascade Investment, startups are often financed by ARCH Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Viking Global Investors. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Viking Global Investors, Wellcome Trust. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, RBC Capital Markets, Novo Holdings.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 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. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biopharma, Energy. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ginkgo BioWorks, Convoy, Sapphire Energy.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arcaea

Beauty
Cosmetics
$78M27 Oct 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Waste Management
$20M17 Mar 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Waste Management
$40M22 Oct 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ginkgo Bioworks

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Chemical
$100M08 Jun 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Sapphire Energy

Biotechnology
Clean Energy
Energy
Solar
$144M02 Apr 2012 San Diego, California, United States

Schrödinger

Biotechnology
Enterprise Software
Pharmaceutical
Software
$10M29 Apr 2010 New York, United States

Sapphire Energy

Biotechnology
Clean Energy
Energy
Solar
$50M28 May 2008 San Diego, California, United States

OANDA Corporation

Finance
Financial Services
News
$100M17 Sep 2007 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extend America

Internet
Telecommunications
Wireless
$9M11 Mar 2004 Bismarck, North Dakota, United States

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Total investments 25
Average round size 142M
Rounds per year 0.64
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.76

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arcaea

Beauty
Cosmetics
$78M27 Oct 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Waste Management
$20M17 Mar 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Waste Management
$40M22 Oct 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ginkgo Bioworks

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Chemical
$100M08 Jun 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Sapphire Energy

Biotechnology
Clean Energy
Energy
Solar
$144M02 Apr 2012 San Diego, California, United States

Schrödinger

Biotechnology
Enterprise Software
Pharmaceutical
Software
$10M29 Apr 2010 New York, United States

Sapphire Energy

Biotechnology
Clean Energy
Energy
Solar
$50M28 May 2008 San Diego, California, United States

OANDA Corporation

Finance
Financial Services
News
$100M17 Sep 2007 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extend America

Internet
Telecommunications
Wireless
$9M11 Mar 2004 Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
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