Goldman Sachs

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

1089

Average round size

102M

Portfolio companies

798

Rounds per year

7.03

Lead investments

262

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

303

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturing

Summary

Goldman Sachs appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1869. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

We also calculated 22 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, Uber, ByteDance. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are FinTech, Financial Services.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Goldman Sachs is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Goldman Sachs works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Goldman Sachs, startups are often financed by Salesforce Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden International, Temasek Holdings, Spectrum Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Fund, Meritech Capital Partners, Tiger Global Management.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
1089
Lead investments
262
Exits
303
Rounds per year
7.03
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (278)
  • Financial Services (169)
  • Information Technology (136)
  • FinTech (134)
  • Internet (119)
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Investments by region
  • United States (637)
  • China (72)
  • Saudi Arabia (3)
  • India (91)
  • United Kingdom (61)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
113
Number of Decacorns
126
Number of Minotaurs
72

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.25
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
2.11
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Veem 16 Sep 2020 Financial Software, Other Financial Services, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Bitcoin, Blockchain Late Stage Venture 31M United States, California, San Francisco
JUMO 25 Feb 2020 Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Mobile, Machine Learning, Mobile Payments, Big Data Late Stage Venture 55M Gauteng, South Africa, South Africa
SonicCloud 09 Mar 2016 Mobile, Telecommunications, Wireless, DSP Seed 25K United States, California, San Francisco
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