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DARPA

Founders Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 5
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Pharmaceutical
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cogito

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Sales Automation
Software
$20M05 Sep 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Voyant Photonics

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Information Technology
Sensor
$4M16 Jul 2019 New York, New York, United States

Vector Launch

Aerospace
Space Travel
$21M29 Jun 2017 Tucson, Arizona, United States

Synchron

Information Technology
Manufacturing
Marketing
Medical Device
$10M04 Apr 2017 California, United States

Enterprise
Human Resources
Internet
Marketplace
Recruiting
$10M15 Sep 2016 New York, New York, United States

Erle Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Education
Open Source
Robotics
29 Jan 2016 Autonomous Community of the Basque Country

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Total investments 41
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.27

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cogito

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Sales Automation
Software
$20M05 Sep 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Voyant Photonics

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Information Technology
Sensor
$4M16 Jul 2019 New York, New York, United States

Vector Launch

Aerospace
Space Travel
$21M29 Jun 2017 Tucson, Arizona, United States

Synchron

Information Technology
Manufacturing
Marketing
Medical Device
$10M04 Apr 2017 California, United States

Enterprise
Human Resources
Internet
Marketplace
Recruiting
$10M15 Sep 2016 New York, New York, United States

Erle Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Education
Open Source
Robotics
29 Jan 2016 Autonomous Community of the Basque Country
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