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MetLife

Founders William P Stewart

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$47M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.09
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 4
Key employees 31

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • Health Care
  • Online Portals
Summary

MetLife appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1868. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the MetLife, startups are often financed by The New York Times, Crosslink Capital, Comcast Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Two Sigma Ventures, Third Point Ventures, The Royal Bank of Scotland. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Plug and Play, Nimble Ventures, CIT GAP Funds.

The overall number of key employees were 31.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Enigma Technologies, Wireless Infrastructure Group. 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 Health Care, FinTech. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this MetLife performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Empathy

Apps
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$47M12 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

Bolttech

Insurance
InsurTech
Online Portals
$196M17 May 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Enigma Technologies

Big Data
Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
FinTech
Machine Learning
Open Source
$95M18 Sep 2018 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 47M
Rounds per year 0.09
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Empathy

Apps
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$47M12 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

Bolttech

Insurance
InsurTech
Online Portals
$196M17 May 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Enigma Technologies

Big Data
Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
FinTech
Machine Learning
Open Source
$95M18 Sep 2018 New York, New York, United States
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