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eBay

Founders Pierre Omidyar Simon Rothman

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$60M
Portfolio companies 36
Rounds per year 1.82
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 15
Key employees 8

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Marketplace
  • Classifieds
  • Mobile
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Heyday

Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Marketplace
$175M18 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

4Gifters

E-Commerce
Gift
Social
$20M12 Sep 2016 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Giosis

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$82M23 Jul 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Qoo10-Indonesia

Consumer
E-Commerce
$82M20 Jul 2015 Surabaya

Livewire

Financial Services
Marketplace
19 May 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

ticketstreet

Auctions
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$3M06 Aug 2014 Chiyoda, Japan

Volta Charging

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Marketing
$1M09 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Emissary

CRM
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Marketplace
SaaS
$2M11 Dec 2013 New York, United States

Appcelerator

Analytics
Apps
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Open Source
Real Time
$12M16 Jul 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 51
Average round size 60M
Rounds per year 1.82
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Heyday

Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Marketplace
$175M18 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

4Gifters

E-Commerce
Gift
Social
$20M12 Sep 2016 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Giosis

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$82M23 Jul 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Qoo10-Indonesia

Consumer
E-Commerce
$82M20 Jul 2015 Surabaya

Livewire

Financial Services
Marketplace
19 May 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

ticketstreet

Auctions
E-Commerce
Marketplace
$3M06 Aug 2014 Chiyoda, Japan

Volta Charging

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Marketing
$1M09 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Emissary

CRM
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Marketplace
SaaS
$2M11 Dec 2013 New York, United States

Appcelerator

Analytics
Apps
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Open Source
Real Time
$12M16 Jul 2013 Mountain View, California, United States
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