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D. E. Shaw & Co.

Founders David E. Shaw

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Total investments 61
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$51M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 1.69
Lead investments 15
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 14
Key employees 28
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Wireless
  • Mobile
  • Analytics
Summary

In 1988 was created D. E. Shaw & Co., which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this D. E. Shaw & Co. works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from D. E. Shaw & Co. the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The high activity for fund was in 2007.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spotify, Adam Aircraft, WiQuest Communications. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Consumer.

The fund was created by David E. Shaw. Besides them, we counted 28 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the D. E. Shaw & Co., startups are often financed by Labrador Ventures, NeoCarta Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Clearstone Venture Partners, Applied Ventures, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Labrador Ventures, DuPont Capital Management, ATA Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dive Solutions

Software
$10M05 Jun 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Neural Concept

Computer
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$27M03 Jun 2024 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Amperon

Artificial Intelligence
Energy
Test and Measurement
$20M03 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Noldor

Customer Service
Insurance
$10M12 Jul 2022 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Semsee

Commercial Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
Software
23 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Tasso

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$100M16 Dec 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Abound

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Wholesale
$36M03 Nov 2021 New York, New York, United States

Quant

$11K01 Oct 2021 Illinois City, Illinois, United States

QC Ware

Quantum Computing
Software
$25M29 Sep 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 61
Average round size 51M
Rounds per year 1.69
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dive Solutions

Software
$10M05 Jun 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Neural Concept

Computer
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$27M03 Jun 2024 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Amperon

Artificial Intelligence
Energy
Test and Measurement
$20M03 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Noldor

Customer Service
Insurance
$10M12 Jul 2022 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Semsee

Commercial Insurance
Financial Services
Insurance
Software
23 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Tasso

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$100M16 Dec 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Abound

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Wholesale
$36M03 Nov 2021 New York, New York, United States

Quant

$11K01 Oct 2021 Illinois City, Illinois, United States

QC Ware

Quantum Computing
Software
$25M29 Sep 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States
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