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Ford Motor Company

Founders Henry Ford Scott Lyons

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$308M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 0.26
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 6
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Automotive
  • Transportation
  • Software
  • Electric Vehicle
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Ford Motor Company is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1903. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Dearborn. The venture was found in North America in United States.

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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Argo AI, Pivotal, Velodyne LiDAR. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Software.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Ford Motor Company is more than 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Ford Motor Company performs on 2 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The fund was created by Henry Ford. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Ford Motor Company, startups are often financed by Max Ventures, VentureSouq, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Granite Ventures, iHeartMedia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Volkswagen Group, Trifecta Capital Advisors, Trifecta Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cavnue

Autonomous Vehicles
Information Services
Software
$130M27 Apr 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Solid Power

Battery
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Renewable Energy
$130M03 May 2021 Colorado, United States

Motorq

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Software Engineering
$7M17 Dec 2020 California, United States

Solid Power

Battery
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Renewable Energy
$28M13 Oct 2020 Colorado, United States

Motorq

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Software Engineering
$7M19 Jun 2020 California, United States

Phantom AI

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Machine Learning
Software
$22M02 Apr 2020 California, United States

Cellink

Electronics
Energy
Solar
$22M29 Oct 2019 California, United States

Rivian

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Transportation
$500M24 Apr 2019 Michigan, United States

Automotive
E-Commerce
Rental
Reservations
Transportation
$40M16 Feb 2018 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Total investments 31
Average round size 308M
Rounds per year 0.26
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cavnue

Autonomous Vehicles
Information Services
Software
$130M27 Apr 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Solid Power

Battery
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Renewable Energy
$130M03 May 2021 Colorado, United States

Motorq

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Software Engineering
$7M17 Dec 2020 California, United States

Solid Power

Battery
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Renewable Energy
$28M13 Oct 2020 Colorado, United States

Motorq

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Software Engineering
$7M19 Jun 2020 California, United States

Phantom AI

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Machine Learning
Software
$22M02 Apr 2020 California, United States

Cellink

Electronics
Energy
Solar
$22M29 Oct 2019 California, United States

Rivian

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Transportation
$500M24 Apr 2019 Michigan, United States

Automotive
E-Commerce
Rental
Reservations
Transportation
$40M16 Feb 2018 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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