Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Milwaukee, United States

Total investments

43

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

6.14

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetFinancial ServicesFinTechMobileFinanceHealth CareAppsBankingInsuranceWealth Management

Summary

In 2017 was created Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, which is appeared as VC. Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chime, Ladder, Atonarp. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Financial Services. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, startups are often financed by Wild Basin Investments, Homebrew, Forerunner Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wild Basin Investments, Silicon Badia, Royal Bank of Canada. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Menlo Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Cathay Innovation.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechWellness & FitnessHealthcareAnalytics

Preferences and restrictions

Requirements for founders
Female People of color

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
43
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
6.14
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (21)
  • Financial Services (18)
  • Mobile (9)
  • Insurance (8)
  • Wealth Management (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (41)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.16

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Chime 31 May 2018 Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments, Banking, Debit Cards Late Stage Venture 70M United States, California, San Francisco
MentalHappy 31 Mar 2021 Health Care, Wellness Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco

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