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GitHub

Founders Chris Wanstrath PJ Hyett Scott Chacon Tom Preston-Werner

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.44
Lead investments 0
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Developer Tools
  • Information Technology
  • Aerospace
  • Industrial Engineering
Summary

GitHub is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2008. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, Scott Chacon, Tom Preston-Werner.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8 participants. Despite the GitHub, startups are often financed by Omidyar Network, Google.org, BlackRock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Twilio.org Impact Fund, Patrick Collison, PagerDuty.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight XWING, Fast Forward. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Industrial Engineering, Education. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guardrails AI

$7M15 Feb 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

EdgeDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$15M07 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

echo3D

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Contact Management
Content Delivery Network
Developer Tools
Software
Virtual Reality
$4M05 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

XWING

Aerospace
Industrial Engineering
Software
$4M31 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.44
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 0
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guardrails AI

$7M15 Feb 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

EdgeDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$15M07 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

echo3D

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Contact Management
Content Delivery Network
Developer Tools
Software
Virtual Reality
$4M05 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

XWING

Aerospace
Industrial Engineering
Software
$4M31 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States
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