Flex

Total investments

19

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

0.35

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

4

Areas of investment
LogisticsInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileMachine LearningHealth CareManufacturingComputerWearables

Summary

Flex is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Davenport.

The fund was created by Samuel Ferry.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Flex, startups are often financed by Walden International, Victoria Grace, Two Sigma Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wareness.io, Shanghai Electric Group Corp, Samsung Electronics. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, The Dow Chemical Company, RRE Ventures.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aricent, Bright Machines, Canary. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.35
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Mobile (4)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Software (3)
  • Computer (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (18)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
193M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
8.99

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Finaccess Capital 01 Jan 2000 Seed Mexico City, Mexico
Kenzen 24 Apr 2017 Analytics, Health Care, Big Data, Internet of Things, Industrial, Wearables, Bioinformatics Seed 5M United States, Missouri, Kansas City
Our Next Energy 01 Mar 2022 Energy Storage, Electronics Early Stage Venture 65M United States, Michigan, Detroit
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