General Motors

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Detroit, United States

Total investments

34

Average round size

453M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.29

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

9

Areas of investment
AutomotiveTransportationSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyBig DataRoboticsManufacturingAutonomous VehiclesElectric Vehicle

Summary

General Motors is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1908. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Detroit. The company was established in North America in United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this General Motors performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from General Motors is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lyft, Cruise Automation, Girls Who Code For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wearables, Automotive. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the General Motors, startups are often financed by GSV Capital, Didi Chuxing, Alibaba Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SoftBank Investment Advisers, Honda Motor, Williams Communications. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by M13, Walmart, Uber.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
8
Exits
9
Rounds per year
0.29
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Automotive (12)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (9)
  • Software (9)
  • Transportation (8)
  • Manufacturing (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • Canada (2)
  • China (2)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Australia (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.50
Avg. company exit year
-1
Avg. multiplicator
0.05
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mitra Chem 13 May 2024 Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Battery Early Stage Venture United States, California, Palo Alto
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