DARPA
41
7M
36
0.62
14
0.10
5
- Areas of investment
Summary
DARPA appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1958. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Arlington. The company was established in North America in United States.
The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this DARPA performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the DARPA, startups are often financed by Shaun Coleman, Dylan Taylor, Silicon Valley Bank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NASA, daVinci Capital Group, Western Technology Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Space Angels, U.S. Department of Education, Think.Health.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 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 Moderna Therapeutics, NVIDIA, Cogito Corporation. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 41
- Lead investments
- 14
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 0.62
- Follow on index
- 0.10
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (12)
- Health Care (9)
- Artificial Intelligence (7)
- Information Technology (7)
- Pharmaceutical (5) Show 64 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (34)
- Switzerland (1)
- Canada (3)
- Sweden (1)
- United Kingdom (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2016
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 28
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 205M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.27
- Avg. company exit year
- 33
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voyant Photonics | 16 Jul 2019 | Automotive, Information Technology, Autonomous Vehicles, Sensor | Seed | 4M | United States, New York, New York |
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