Idealab

Summary

In 1996 was created Idealab, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Pasadena.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Idealab, startups are often financed by Moore Capital, Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Moore Capital, Primedia Ventures, Accel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, Penske Automotive Group, Moore Capital.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Analytics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fair, Branch, Aptera. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Bill Gross, Marcia Goodstein, Tom Hughes. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Idealab is 5-10 millions dollars. This Idealab works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.