Google

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Total investments

287

Average round size

123M

Portfolio companies

239

Rounds per year

11.04

Lead investments

97

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

34

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareMobile AppsEducation

Summary

In 1998 was created Google, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Mountain View. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by Larry Page, mostafa dewan, Sergey Brin. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Google, startups are often financed by Menlo Ventures, DFJ, VantagePoint Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, HSBC, DFJ. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, VantagePoint Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price.

The fund has no exact preference 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 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 JD.com, Meituan-Dianping, SpaceX. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Advertising.

The average startup value when the investment from Google is more than 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Google works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
287
Lead investments
97
Exits
34
Rounds per year
11.04
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (58)
  • Information Technology (57)
  • Artificial Intelligence (39)
  • Internet (38)
  • Education (27)
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Investments by region
  • United States (123)
  • India (49)
  • Indonesia (7)
  • Netherlands (4)
  • China (7)
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Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
22
Number of Decacorns
31
Number of Minotaurs
30

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
22
Avg. multiplicator
1.32
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
EcoRatings 28 May 2024 Seed 1M United States, New York, New York
Reefreshed 06 Jun 2023 E-Commerce, SaaS, Apps, Marketplace, Delivery Service, Grocery, Shopping, Service Industry Seed Ontario, Toronto, Canada
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