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Groupon

Founders Andrew Mason Bradley Keywell Christopher Muhr Emil Jersling Eric Lefkofsky Federico Malek Florian Otto Rajen Ruparell Shawn Bercuson Stephen George

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.67
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 1
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Mobile Payments
  • Information Technology
  • Credit Cards
Summary

Groupon is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Chicago.

The fund was created by Andrew Mason, Brad Keywell, Christopher Muhr, Emil Jersling, Eric Lefkofsky, Federico Malek, Florian Otto, Rajen Ruparell, Shawn Bercuson, Stephen George. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Groupon, startups are often financed by BBVA Ventures, btov Partners, TEV | Tengelmann Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BBVA Ventures, Vine St. Ventures, Venture Incubator, LLC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BBVA Ventures, Venture Incubator, LLC, U-Start.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Groupon performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SumUp, Jump On It, ClubLocal The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketing, Consumer Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Grouping

E-Commerce
Internet
$30M11 Nov 2022 Makati, Manila, Philippines

SumUp

Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Point of Sale
$13M13 Aug 2014 England

SumUp

Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Point of Sale
09 Jul 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 10
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 0.67
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Grouping

E-Commerce
Internet
$30M11 Nov 2022 Makati, Manila, Philippines

SumUp

Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Point of Sale
$13M13 Aug 2014 England

SumUp

Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Point of Sale
09 Jul 2013 London, England, United Kingdom
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