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MIT Media Lab

Founders Ariel Ekblaw Federico Casalegno Nicholas Negroponte

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Total investments 141
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$42K
Portfolio companies 141
Rounds per year 3.71
Lead investments 1
Exits 44
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Internet
  • Hardware
Summary

In 1985 was created MIT Media Lab, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Cambridge. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the MIT Media Lab, startups are often financed by Shea Ventures, Roser Ventures, Rock Health. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MIT Venture Mentoring Service (MIT VMS), Techstars, Taiyou Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Khosla Ventures, MassChallenge, Viola Credit.

The high activity for fund was in 2011. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this MIT Media Lab performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

This organization was formed by Ariel Ekblaw, Federico Casalegno, Nicholas Negroponte.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Advertising, Information Technology. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Tulip Interfaces, Endor, Ginger Besides, a startup needs to be aged more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Total investments 141
Average round size 42K
Rounds per year 3.71
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 1
Exits 44
Group Appearance index 0.10

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Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$1M22 Dec 2018 New York, New York, United States

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Consumer Electronics
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E-Commerce
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Internet of Things
Product Design
$1M02 Jun 2015 Portland, Oregon, United States

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