CZI

Summary

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The current fund was established by Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, startups are often financed by GSV AcceleraTE, Omidyar Network, NewSchools Venture Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Omidyar Network, Reach Capital, Spark Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Omidyar Network, TLcom Capital Partners, Spark Capital.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BYJU'S, Age of Learning, Andela. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Knowledge Management, Universities.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2018.