National Science Foundation

Summary

National Science Foundation is the famous VC, which was founded in 1950. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Alexandria.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this National Science Foundation performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from National Science Foundation is 1-5 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symantec, Affectiva, Agrivida. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Universities. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the National Science Foundation, startups are often financed by MassChallenge, US Department of Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by US Department of Energy, Techstars, Menlo Ventures.

The overall number of key employees were 9.