Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund)
110
18M
101
9.17
0.08
71
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2012 was created Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund), which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Mateo.
This organization was formed by Jimmy Lackie, Scott Chou, Stephen Roberts.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Health Care. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ 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 Twitter, Lending Club, Petco. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund), startups are often financed by Greylock Partners, T. Rowe Price, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are T. Rowe Price, Accel, GGV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by T. Rowe Price, Slow Ventures, PremjiInvest.
This Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund) works on 47 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund) the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 110
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 71
- Rounds per year
- 9.17
- Follow on index
- 0.08
- Investments by industry
- Software (44)
- Enterprise Software (30)
- SaaS (24)
- Information Technology (14)
- E-Commerce (13) Show 183 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (106)
- Australia (1)
- France (2)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
- Number of Unicorns
- 32
- Number of Decacorns
- 36
- Number of Minotaurs
- 13
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 15
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 3B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.35
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 3.81
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YapStone | 07 Jun 2011 | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Finance, Mobile Payments, Marketplace | Early Stage Venture | 50M | United States, California |
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