NIST

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Gaithersburg, United States

Total investments

13

Average round size

663K

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.11

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSManufacturingGovTechVirtual AssistantSmart CitiesPublic SafetyFacial Recognition

Summary

NIST is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1901. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Gaithersburg.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biopharma, Robotics. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Voxel51, Origen Therapeutics, Isto Technologies. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Judith Terrill, William George.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the NIST, startups are often financed by National Science Foundation, Wakefield Group, Firelake Capital Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pappas Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Morningside Group.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2001. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this NIST performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

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Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.11
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • Machine Learning (3)
  • Artificial Intelligence (3)
  • Manufacturing (3)
  • Facial Recognition (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
200K
Group Appearance index
0.15
Avg. company exit year
19

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CausalTwin 21 Oct 2022 Seed 37K
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