Guardian Life

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Total investments

13

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.08

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

1

Areas of investment
Business/Productivity SoftwareHuman Capital ServicesSoftwareHuman ResourcesArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSInsuranceEmployee BenefitsLife Insurance

Summary

Guardian Life appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1860. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Guardian Life works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Guardian Life, startups are often financed by Safeguard Scientifics, MentorTech Ventures, Maveron. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Salesforce Ventures, ATX Venture Partners, UpCurve Inc.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UpCurve Inc., Salesforce Ventures, GIS Strategic Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Developer APIs, Web Development. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline GoCo.io Inc, Human API, Prognos The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The current fund was established by Hugo Wesendonck. The overall number of key employees were 14.

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Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.08
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
  • Employee Benefits (4)
  • Life Insurance (4)
  • Insurance (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
184M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
EvolutionIQ 12 Apr 2022 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Insurance, InsurTech, Commercial Insurance, Risk Management, Fraud Detection, Life Insurance Early Stage Venture 21M United States, New York, New York
Nayya 13 Jan 2021 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Insurance, Employee Benefits, B2C Early Stage Venture 11M United States, New York, New York
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