LinkedIn

Total investments

17

Average round size

59M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.85

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

1

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareB2BSalesMarketing AutomationSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSocial NetworkBusiness IntelligenceCRM

Summary

LinkedIn appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2003. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Sunnyvale. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the LinkedIn, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners, High Alpha. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tim Handorf, Silver Lake Partners, Resolute Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Benchmark, Sequoia Capital.

This organization was formed by Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Konstantin Guericke, Reid Hoffman.

This LinkedIn works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from LinkedIn the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Confluent, Cornerstone OnDemand, SalesLoft. 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 Software, Email.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.85
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Enterprise Software (6)
  • SaaS (4)
  • Internet (3)
  • CRM (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.94
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Acryl Data 23 Jun 2021 Software Seed 9M United States, California, Mountain View
G2 23 May 2017 Internet, Software, B2B, Marketing Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, CRM Early Stage Venture 30M United States, Illinois, Chicago
Thismoment 12 Sep 2008 Software, SaaS, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Facebook Early Stage Venture 0 United States, California, San Francisco
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