Open Prairie
34
9M
23
1.36
7
0.32
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Open Prairie appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1999. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Champaign.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Infoblox, NewLeaf Symbiotics, Agrivida. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, CRM.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Open Prairie performs on 10 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Open Prairie, startups are often financed by Pangaea Ventures, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Michigan Accelerator Fund I. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pangaea Ventures, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, RockPort Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Serra Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures.
The current fund was established by Jim Schultz. The overall number of key employees were 4.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 34
- Lead investments
- 7
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 1.36
- Follow on index
- 0.32
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (15)
- Agriculture (11)
- Health Care (8)
- Farming (6)
- Sustainability (4) Show 45 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (33)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 14
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 69M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.85
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ConnectedHealth | 01 Jan 2012 | Mobile, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, mHealth | Seed | 259K | Singapore, Central |
| HerdDogg | 26 Mar 2024 | Health Care, Robotics, Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, AgTech | Early Stage Venture | 6M | United States, Wyoming, Laramie |
| NewLeaf Symbiotics | 09 Jan 2013 | Biotechnology, Sustainability, Agriculture | Early Stage Venture | 7M | United States, Missouri, City of Saint Louis |
| Yummy Inc. | 21 Oct 2021 | Logistics, Internet, Consumer, Food Delivery | Early Stage Venture | 18M | Venezuela, Capital District, Caracas |
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