DRW

Total investments

3

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.10

Lead investments

1

Exits

1

Areas of investment
Asset ManagementFinancial ServicesFinTechSoftware EngineeringCloud InfrastructureComputerBlockchainService IndustryUX DesignCommunications Infrastructure

Summary

DRW is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1992. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Chicago.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline BitGo, Pico Quantitative Trading Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Service Industry, Virtual Currency.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8 partakers. Despite the DRW, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Radar Partners, Liberty City Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments, Wells Fargo, Valor Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments, Galaxy Digital LP.

The current fund was established by Don Wilson.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
3
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (2)
  • FinTech (2)
  • Blockchain (1)
  • Software Engineering (1)
  • UX Design (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (2)
  • Tanzania (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
403M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
17.27
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kijiji Hub 09 Feb 2023 Software Engineering, Blockchain, UX Design Early Stage Venture 3M Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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