Corning

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Total investments

20

Average round size

43M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

0.12

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

7

Areas of investment
SoftwareManufacturingHardwareSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWirelessOptical CommunicationNanotechnologyIndustrial Design

Summary

Corning appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1851. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Corning.

The fund was created by Amory Houghton, Hao Dong. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Corning, startups are often financed by Sigma Partners, NanoDimension, Khosla Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cisco, Intel Capital, 1517 Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sprout Group, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Eurofund.

The average startup value when the investment from Corning is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2001. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Corning works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight View, Luminar, CyOptics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Optical Communication, Software.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
2
Exits
7
Rounds per year
0.12
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (7)
  • Software (5)
  • Hardware (4)
  • Telecommunications (3)
  • Semiconductor (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
Peak activity year
2001
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
66M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.08
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bean 01 Jan 2017 FinTech, Personal Finance, Price Comparison, Billing Seed England, London, United Kingdom
Light Field Lab 08 Feb 2023 Software, Information Technology, Hardware, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment, Film, Industrial Design Early Stage Venture 50M United States, California, San Jose
Menlo Micro 06 Dec 2016 Hardware, Semiconductor, Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Power Grid Early Stage Venture 33M United States, California, Irvine
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