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Omidyar Technology Ventures

Founders Pierre Omidyar

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 2.56
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Transportation
  • Freight Service
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
Summary

In 2015 was created Omidyar Technology Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Redwood City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Pierre Omidyar. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Omidyar Technology Ventures performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Omidyar Technology Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Omidyar Technology Ventures, startups are often financed by Chicago Ventures, Allen & Company, Sierra Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Emergence, Sigma Prime Ventures, Sierra Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Singtel Innov8, Red Sea Ventures, Greylock Partners.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Transportation, Machine Learning. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Convoy, Fundbox, Attivo Networks For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Software
$3M05 Nov 2021 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Drink Prime

Water
Water Purification
$2M04 Aug 2020 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$30M16 Jan 2020 Pennsylvania, United States

project44

Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Freight Service
SaaS
Transportation
$45M01 Oct 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Writable

Education
$3M22 Aug 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Akili Interactive Labs

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Therapeutics
$13M09 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$22M24 May 2018 Pennsylvania, United States

Gamalon

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
$20M08 May 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

project44

Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Freight Service
SaaS
Transportation
$30M17 Apr 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 2.56
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Overstory

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Software
$3M05 Nov 2021 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Drink Prime

Water
Water Purification
$2M04 Aug 2020 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$30M16 Jan 2020 Pennsylvania, United States

project44

Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Freight Service
SaaS
Transportation
$45M01 Oct 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Writable

Education
$3M22 Aug 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Akili Interactive Labs

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Therapeutics
$13M09 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Phenom People

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Human Resources
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$22M24 May 2018 Pennsylvania, United States

Gamalon

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
$20M08 May 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

project44

Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Freight Service
SaaS
Transportation
$30M17 Apr 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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