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Investor AB

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$30M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 0.17
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 7
Key employees 15
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Advertising
  • Financial Services
Summary

Investor AB is the famous VC, which was founded in 1916. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Sweden. The main department of described VC is located in the Stockholm.

The overall number of key employees were 15.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this Investor AB performs on 6 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Investor AB is 100-500 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Investor AB, startups are often financed by The Carlyle Group, Matrix Partners, Greylock Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sumitomo Corporation, New Enterprise Associates, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Investor Growth Capital Limited, CBC Capital, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Web Development, Software. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Gator.com, Curl, Sandburst Corporation

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EZ Texting

Advertising
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
SMS
Software
$21M01 Sep 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

EZ Texting

Advertising
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
SMS
Software
$17M01 Dec 2012 Santa Monica, California, United States

FClub

E-Commerce
Fashion
Internet
Jewelry
$15M01 Mar 2012 Shanghai, China

RYB Education

Children
Education
Family
$20M26 Sep 2011 China, Beijing

China Health Media

Advertising
Electrical Equipment
Information Services (B2C)
Media and Entertainment
News
Other Healthcare
$10M01 Oct 2007 China, Beijing

CDP Group

B2B
Commercial Insurance
Employee Benefits
Health Insurance
Information Technology
Insurance
Life Insurance
Property Insurance
Software
$6M01 Oct 2006 Shanghai, China

Gyros

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$29M17 Dec 2001 New Jersey, United States

Sandburst Corporation

Data Integration
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$27M10 Dec 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Optillion Ab

Electronics
$53M13 Dec 2000 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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Total investments 18
Average round size 30M
Rounds per year 0.17
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EZ Texting

Advertising
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
SMS
Software
$21M01 Sep 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

EZ Texting

Advertising
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
SMS
Software
$17M01 Dec 2012 Santa Monica, California, United States

FClub

E-Commerce
Fashion
Internet
Jewelry
$15M01 Mar 2012 Shanghai, China

RYB Education

Children
Education
Family
$20M26 Sep 2011 China, Beijing

China Health Media

Advertising
Electrical Equipment
Information Services (B2C)
Media and Entertainment
News
Other Healthcare
$10M01 Oct 2007 China, Beijing

CDP Group

B2B
Commercial Insurance
Employee Benefits
Health Insurance
Information Technology
Insurance
Life Insurance
Property Insurance
Software
$6M01 Oct 2006 Shanghai, China

Gyros

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$29M17 Dec 2001 New Jersey, United States

Sandburst Corporation

Data Integration
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$27M10 Dec 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Optillion Ab

Electronics
$53M13 Dec 2000 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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