Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV)

Total investments

28

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

2.33

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsMedicalAgTechService IndustryAgricultureFarming

Summary

Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The venture was found in North America in United States. Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Atomwise, NewLeaf Symbiotics, Pivot Bio For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Service Industry, Food and Beverage.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), startups are often financed by True Ventures, SK Ventures, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Data Collective DCVC, Pontifax AgTech, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Innotech Advisers, Fidelity Management and Research Company.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
10
Exits
6
Rounds per year
2.33
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (19)
  • Biotechnology (12)
  • AgTech (6)
  • Service Industry (5)
  • Medical (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • Canada (3)
  • Estonia (1)
  • Brazil (2)
  • Argentina (2)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
96M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
8.40
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ClickFuel 03 Jul 2009 Marketing, Advertising, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 2M United States, Massachusetts
Resson 09 May 2018 Analytics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Aerospace, Bioinformatics, Agriculture Late Stage Venture 14M New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
Layr 21 Mar 2022 Internet, Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Insurance, InsurTech, Commercial Insurance Early Stage Venture 10M United States, Atlanta, Georgia

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