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Mars

Founders Franklin Clarence Mars

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.09
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • E-Commerce
  • Nutrition
  • Manufacturing
  • Apps
Summary

Mars appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1911. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Mclean. The company was established in North America in United States.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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 Manufacturing, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Heliae, Vanson HaloSource.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the Mars, startups are often financed by Agri Investments Pte. Ltd, Thomas J. Edelman. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Washington Research Foundation., Montlake Capital, Alexander Hutton Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hydraverse

$1M07 Mar 2022 -

Oliver Pets

Data Integration
Delivery
E-Commerce
Insurance
Mobile Apps
Pet
$950K08 Feb 2021 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Smooth Commerce

Apps
E-Commerce
Mobile Payments
Software
01 May 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vanson HaloSource

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$5M17 Mar 2005 District of Columbia, United States

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Total investments 10
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.09
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hydraverse

$1M07 Mar 2022 -

Oliver Pets

Data Integration
Delivery
E-Commerce
Insurance
Mobile Apps
Pet
$950K08 Feb 2021 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Smooth Commerce

Apps
E-Commerce
Mobile Payments
Software
01 May 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vanson HaloSource

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$5M17 Mar 2005 District of Columbia, United States
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