Continental Grain Company

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

51

Average round size

36M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

0.24

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingMachine LearningAgTechOrganic FoodAgricultureFarming

Summary

Continental Grain Company appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1813. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Continental Grain Company works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2018.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Continental Grain Company, startups are often financed by S2G Ventures, SOSV, Middleland Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are S2G Ventures, Middleland Capital, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Temasek Holdings, S2G Ventures, Tyson Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Organic Food, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Perfect Day, MycoTechnology, Greenlight Biosciences. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AgricultureFoodtech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
ArgentinaBrazilCanadaChileColombia Show 10 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
51
Lead investments
3
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.24
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (29)
  • AgTech (20)
  • Biotechnology (20)
  • Farming (14)
  • Food and Beverage (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (38)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • China (3)
  • Brazil (3)
  • France (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
377M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
35
Strategy success index
0.60

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