iRobot

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Bedford, United States

Total investments

14

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.42

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SocialSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsHardwareVideoSmart HomeGreenTechHuman Computer Interaction

Summary

iRobot is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1990. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Bedford.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Robotics, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sense, Sense, Paracosm. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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 standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the iRobot, startups are often financed by Shell Ventures, Prelude Ventures, LLC, Energy Impact Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shell Ventures, Prelude Ventures, LLC, Energy Impact Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Samsung NEXT, Matrix Partners, Shell Ventures.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this iRobot works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

This organization was formed by Colin Angle, Helen Greiner, Rodney Brooks.

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Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.42
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Robotics (6)
  • Hardware (5)
  • Video (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Israel (4)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Owl Labs 09 May 2017 Software, Intelligent Systems, Hardware, Video, Video Conferencing Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Boston, Massachusetts
Sense 27 Apr 2022 Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Smart Home, GreenTech, Speech Recognition Late Stage Venture 127M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
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