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Corning

Founders Amory Houghton Hao Dong

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$43M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 0.12
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 7
Key employees 6

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Telecommunications
  • Semiconductor
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Light Field Lab

Digital Entertainment
Film
Hardware
Industrial Design
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$50M08 Feb 2023 San Jose, California, United States

BRELYON

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$15M19 Sep 2022 California, United States

3d Glass Solutions

Electronics
$4M31 Jan 2022 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

SigmaSense

Image Recognition
Information Technology
Semiconductor
$22M22 Sep 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Kura Technologies

Augmented Reality
Electronics
Hardware
Optical Communication
Software
Wearables
$1M28 Feb 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Menlo Micro

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Hardware
Power Grid
Semiconductor
$33M06 Dec 2016 Irvine, California, United States

NinePoint Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$34M18 Mar 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Centerstone Software

Computer
Leasing
Real Estate
Software
$3M03 Mar 2003 Massachusetts, United States

Manufacturing
$88M25 Feb 2002 Minnesota, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 43M
Rounds per year 0.12
Peak activity year 2001
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Light Field Lab

Digital Entertainment
Film
Hardware
Industrial Design
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$50M08 Feb 2023 San Jose, California, United States

BRELYON

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$15M19 Sep 2022 California, United States

3d Glass Solutions

Electronics
$4M31 Jan 2022 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

SigmaSense

Image Recognition
Information Technology
Semiconductor
$22M22 Sep 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Kura Technologies

Augmented Reality
Electronics
Hardware
Optical Communication
Software
Wearables
$1M28 Feb 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Menlo Micro

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Hardware
Power Grid
Semiconductor
$33M06 Dec 2016 Irvine, California, United States

NinePoint Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$34M18 Mar 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Centerstone Software

Computer
Leasing
Real Estate
Software
$3M03 Mar 2003 Massachusetts, United States

Manufacturing
$88M25 Feb 2002 Minnesota, United States
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