Ford Motor

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.