MasterCard

Total investments

117

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

94

Rounds per year

2.02

Lead investments

23

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

10

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobilePaymentsFinanceMobile PaymentsBanking

Summary

In 1966 was created MasterCard, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Purchase.

Besides them, we counted 14 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mozido, IZettle, Mu Sigma. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile Payments, Software.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from MasterCard is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this MasterCard performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the MasterCard, startups are often financed by Mastercard Start Path, Index Ventures, Creandum. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, SEB Private Equity, RRE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, 83North, Square Peg Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
117
Lead investments
23
Exits
10
Rounds per year
2.02
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (65)
  • Financial Services (56)
  • Payments (38)
  • Software (28)
  • Information Technology (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (49)
  • United Kingdom (18)
  • South Africa (1)
  • Sweden (6)
  • India (9)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
14
Number of Decacorns
14
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
598M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.48
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hello Alice 04 Apr 2024 Information Technology, Information Services, Digital Marketing Late Stage Venture United States, Texas, Houston
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