Omidyar Network

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Redwood City, United States

Total investments

364

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

224

Rounds per year

18.20

Lead investments

32

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

38

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareEdTechEducation

Summary

In 2004 was created Omidyar Network, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Redwood City.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Omidyar Network is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Omidyar Network works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Pam Omidyar, Pierre Omidyar. Besides them, we counted 32 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Change Healthcare, Change Healthcare, Chime. The fund has no exact preference 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Social Media. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Omidyar Network, startups are often financed by DFJ, Y Combinator, Elevar Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matrix Partners India, Learn Capital, Quona Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital India, Benchmark, Maverick Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
364
Lead investments
32
Exits
38
Rounds per year
18.20
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (76)
  • FinTech (67)
  • Education (55)
  • Software (52)
  • Internet (52)
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Investments by region
  • India (128)
  • United States (155)
  • Brazil (9)
  • United Kingdom (11)
  • South Africa (9)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
10
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
285M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
18.42
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hummingbird 22 Oct 2018 Software, FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Banking, GovTech Seed 3M United States, California, Irvine
Qoala 27 Mar 2024 Insurance, InsurTech, Internet of Things Late Stage Venture 49M Jakarta Raya, Kebayoran Baru, Indonesia

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