Kuwait Investment Authority
14
98M
12
0.20
3
0.14
7
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Kuwait Investment Authority appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1953. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Kuwait. The company was established in Asia in Kuwait.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Kuwait Investment Authority, startups are often financed by Salesforce Ventures, STC Ventures, K1 Investment Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Morgan Stanley, DB International, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lumia Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Endure Capital.
Opposing the other organizations, this Kuwait Investment Authority works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Kuwait Investment Authority is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Chemical, Pharmaceutical. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Careem Networks, NantHealth, Jawbone 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. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India.
We also calculated 22 valuable employees in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 0.20
- Follow on index
- 0.14
- Investments by industry
- Medical (3)
- Health Care (3)
- Consumer Electronics (2)
- Fitness (2)
- Personal Health (2) Show 41 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (6)
- India (4)
- United Arab Emirates (1)
- Canada (1)
- Spain (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 4
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
- Number of Minotaurs
- 3
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 323M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.79
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.55
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Careem | 10 Nov 2015 | Logistics, Transportation, Ride Sharing, Public Transportation, Customer Service | Late Stage Venture | 60M | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
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