Kickstarter

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

31

Average round size

607K

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

1.94

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Crowdfunding
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareManufacturingMedicalFashionHardwareConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsSustainabilityWireless

Summary

In 2007 was created Kickstarter, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Brooklyn.

This organization was formed by Charles Adler, Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Hardware. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ANTVR Technology, M3D LLC, McLEAR.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Kickstarter performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Kickstarter, startups are often financed by Indiegogo, NUMA, Matt Mullenweg. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matt Mullenweg. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Energy & Environment Investment, Wilco, WeLikeStartup.

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Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
9
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.94
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Consumer Electronics (8)
  • Manufacturing (6)
  • Software (5)
  • Wireless (4)
  • Fashion (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Japan (4)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Germany (1)
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Peak activity year
2023

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
737K
Group Appearance index
0.13

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mellow Boards 01 Jan 2015 Manufacturing, Sports, Electronics, Sporting Goods Seed 354K Germany, Hamburg
Millo 07 Jun 2017 Health Care, Wellness, Cooking Seed 118K England, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Welltory 01 Apr 2017 Health Care, Wellness, Mobile Apps, Personal Health, mHealth Seed 1M United States, New York, New York

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