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Michelson 20MM Foundation

Founders Phil Kim

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.33
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
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Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Mobile Apps
  • Higher Education
  • E-Learning
  • Career Planning
Summary

Michelson 20MM Foundation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2011. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Pasadena.

The fund was created by Phil Kim.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Yellowbrick, AdmitHub, Gooroo. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Marketplace.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Michelson 20MM Foundation, startups are often financed by Techstars, University Ventures, The Yard Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bisk Ventures, Wavemaker 360, Village Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by University Ventures, The Yard Ventures, Rethink Education.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Michelson 20MM Foundation is 10-50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

New Apprenticeship

Education
$2M14 Sep 2021 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Oliver Pets

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

JobBliss

Collaboration
Freelance
Recruiting
$100K23 Jun 2020 Ontario

Edquity

Education
Financial Services
Mobile Apps
Wealth Management
$2M06 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

GIBLIB

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$2M03 Apr 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

NexusEdge

Artificial Intelligence
Career Planning
E-Learning
Education
Higher Education
$265K18 May 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

Gooroo

E-Learning
Internet
Mobile Apps
Video Chat
$3M09 Jan 2018 New York, New York, United States

Qualified

Developer Platform
Skill Assessment
STEM Education
Training
05 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

AdmitHub

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Information Services
Machine Learning
Mobile Apps
Natural Language Processing
Virtual Assistant
$100K31 Oct 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
News
New Apprenticeship Closes $2.5M Seed Funding

– New Apprenticeship is a digital apprenticeship solution that helps companies and students bridge the tech skills and opportunity gap.
– Company closed a $2.5M seed funding round.
– The round was led by ECMC Group’s Education Impact Fund, with participation from the Dell Foundation, Michelson 20MM Foundation, Learnstart, and others.
– The new investment will be used to build out company’s management team and make investments in sales operations and technology.

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Total investments 16
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.33
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.19
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

New Apprenticeship

Education
$2M14 Sep 2021 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Oliver Pets

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

JobBliss

Collaboration
Freelance
Recruiting
$100K23 Jun 2020 Ontario

Edquity

Education
Financial Services
Mobile Apps
Wealth Management
$2M06 Jan 2020 New York, New York, United States

GIBLIB

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$2M03 Apr 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

NexusEdge

Artificial Intelligence
Career Planning
E-Learning
Education
Higher Education
$265K18 May 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

Gooroo

E-Learning
Internet
Mobile Apps
Video Chat
$3M09 Jan 2018 New York, New York, United States

Qualified

Developer Platform
Skill Assessment
STEM Education
Training
05 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

AdmitHub

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Information Services
Machine Learning
Mobile Apps
Natural Language Processing
Virtual Assistant
$100K31 Oct 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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