Markel Corporation

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Glen Allen, United States

Total investments

4

Average round size

58M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.04

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinTechFinanceArtificial IntelligenceSmall and Medium BusinessesCyber SecurityInsuranceInsurTechCommercial InsuranceRisk Management

Summary

In 1930 was created Markel Corporation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Glen Allen.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9 partakers. Despite the Markel Corporation, startups are often financed by Zeev Ventures, TLV Partners, Ribbit Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zeev Ventures, TLV Partners, Ribbit Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Zeev Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, Group 11.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Commercial Insurance, Small and Medium Businesses. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Next Insurance

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
4
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.04
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Insurance (4)
  • InsurTech (3)
  • Artificial Intelligence (2)
  • Cyber Security (2)
  • FinTech (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (4)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
38
Avg. multiplicator
29.52
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cowbell Cyber 15 Mar 2022 Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Insurance, InsurTech, Risk Management Early Stage Venture 100M United States, California
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