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IDEO

Founders David Kelley Dean Hovey

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 0.53
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 6
Key employees 19

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Analytics
Summary

In 1978 was created IDEO, 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 Palo Alto.

The current fund was established by David Kelley. Besides them, we counted 14 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from IDEO the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This IDEO works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the IDEO, startups are often financed by SMBC Venture Capital, NEC Capital Solutions, Shinji Kimura. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are D4V - Design for Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital, NEC Capital Solutions. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Crossbow Ventures, Eric Di Benedetto, D4V - Design for Ventures.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Education. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Arena Solutions, PillPack, Infarm

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EarlyBird

Financial Services
FinTech
Gift
$4M01 Nov 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

LifeScore

Music
$15M07 Mar 2022 Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Curve Health

Elder Care
Health Care
Hospital
$12M06 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Sequin

Financial Services
FinTech
$5M15 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

omniX labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$750K01 Jan 2018 New York, New York, United States

Infarm

Agriculture
AgTech
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
$4M26 Jun 2017 Berlin

Elemetric

Blockchain
Enterprise Software
24 Apr 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Alpaca

Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$1M24 Jan 2017 California, United States

Catalia Health

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Robotics
$1M12 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 24
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.53
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EarlyBird

Financial Services
FinTech
Gift
$4M01 Nov 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

LifeScore

Music
$15M07 Mar 2022 Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Curve Health

Elder Care
Health Care
Hospital
$12M06 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Sequin

Financial Services
FinTech
$5M15 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

omniX labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$750K01 Jan 2018 New York, New York, United States

Infarm

Agriculture
AgTech
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
$4M26 Jun 2017 Berlin

Elemetric

Blockchain
Enterprise Software
24 Apr 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Alpaca

Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$1M24 Jan 2017 California, United States

Catalia Health

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Robotics
$1M12 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States
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