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General Mills

Founders Cadwallader C. Washburn James Ford Bell John Crosby

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.08
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 2
Key employees 6

Areas of investment

  • Food Processing
  • Food and Beverage
  • Organic Food
  • Agriculture
  • Food Delivery
Summary

In 1928 was created General Mills, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Minneapolis.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the General Mills, startups are often financed by Obvious Ventures, CAVU Venture Partners, 301 INC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 301 INC, CAVU Venture Partners, Tyson Foods. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DNS Capital, Cleveland Avenue, Tyson Foods.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This General Mills works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2016.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Agriculture, Organic Food. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Beyond Meat, Kite Hill, MarketTools.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Smalls

Animal Feed
Food Delivery
Food Processing
Nutrition
$19M28 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

BeeHero

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Social Impact
Software
$42M01 Dec 2022 Fresno, California, United States

Purely Elizabeth

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Organic Food
Snack Food
$3M03 Apr 2017 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Kite Hill

Agriculture
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
Restaurants
$18M20 May 2016 United States, Hayward

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Total investments 8
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.08
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Smalls

Animal Feed
Food Delivery
Food Processing
Nutrition
$19M28 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

BeeHero

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Social Impact
Software
$42M01 Dec 2022 Fresno, California, United States

Purely Elizabeth

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Organic Food
Snack Food
$3M03 Apr 2017 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Kite Hill

Agriculture
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
Restaurants
$18M20 May 2016 United States, Hayward
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