eBay
Corporate investor
Active
San Jose, United States
51
60M
36
1.82
5
0.29
15
- Areas of investment
Summary
eBay appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1995. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Jose. The venture was found in North America in United States.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the eBay, startups are often financed by Storm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Southern Capitol Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Norwest Venture Partners, Southern Capitol Ventures, Omidyar Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sierra Ventures, Benchmark, Translink Capital.
The fund was created by Pierre Omidyar. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Flipkart, Snapdeal, Skype Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this eBay performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from eBay is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 51
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 15
- Rounds per year
- 1.82
- Follow on index
- 0.29
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (27)
- Internet (19)
- Marketplace (18)
- Classifieds (11)
- Mobile (9) Show 60 more
- Investments by region
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- India (9)
- United States (30)
- Singapore (1)
- Indonesia (1)
- China (4) Show 4 more
- Peak activity year
- 2013
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 15
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 792M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.33
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Livewire | 19 May 2015 | Financial Services, Marketplace | Seed | United States, Texas, Austin | |
Meetup | 09 Mar 2006 | Internet, Communities, Social Media | Late Stage Venture | 4M | United States, New York, New York |
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