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Franklin Templeton Investments

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Total investments 187
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$175M
Portfolio companies 150
Rounds per year 2.43
Lead investments 23
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 29
Key employees 15
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
Summary

Franklin Templeton Investments appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1947. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Mateo.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2019. 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. Opposing the other organizations, this Franklin Templeton Investments works on 0 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Franklin Templeton Investments is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides them, we counted 30 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Franklin Templeton Investments, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are T. Rowe Price, RA Capital Management, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 Tanium, Lime, Allogene Therapeutics. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blockhead

21 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Ethena

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$14M16 Feb 2024 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Alto Neuroscience

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Neuroscience
$45M21 Nov 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

Ethena

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$6M17 Jul 2023 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Betterdata

Data Integration
Product Design
Software
$1M21 Apr 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Azra Games

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Gaming
Video Games
$10M21 Feb 2023 Sacramento, California, United States

Alongside

FinTech
$11M15 Feb 2023 -

Chainsight

$1M30 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

BRELYON

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$15M19 Sep 2022 California, United States
News
Databricks expands its data lake analytics with $1.6B funding

– Databricks, a big data analytics software provider, announced that it raised $1.6 billion in a series H financing round led by Counterpoint Global, with participation from BNY Mellon and ClearBridge.
Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Management & Research, and Franklin Templeton also contributed, bringing the company’s total raised to $3.5 billion at a $38 billion post-money valuation.
– Cofounder and CEO Ali Ghodsi says that the capital will be used to support Databricks’ product development, customer adoption, and the evangelization of “data lakehouse.”
– Data lakehouses — a term that came into vogue in 2020 — are data management architectures that combine data lakes, which store structured and unstructured data, with data warehouses, which perform queries and analysis.

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Total investments 187
Average round size 175M
Rounds per year 2.43
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 29
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blockhead

21 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Ethena

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$14M16 Feb 2024 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Alto Neuroscience

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Neuroscience
$45M21 Nov 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

Ethena

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$6M17 Jul 2023 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Betterdata

Data Integration
Product Design
Software
$1M21 Apr 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Azra Games

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Gaming
Video Games
$10M21 Feb 2023 Sacramento, California, United States

Alongside

FinTech
$11M15 Feb 2023 -

Chainsight

$1M30 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

BRELYON

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$15M19 Sep 2022 California, United States
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