Pearson is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.
Besides them, we counted 19 critical employees of this fund in our database.
This Pearson works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Pearson is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2011.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no 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 Blackboard, Knewton, Inkling Systems. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Enterprise Software.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Pearson, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, ff Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Kapor Capital, Felicis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tenaya Capital, Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures.
Fund Name | Location |
AISpeech | China, Jiangshan, Zhejiang |
Backcast Partners | New York, New York, United States |
Batlivala & Karani Securities | India, Maharashtra, Mumbai |
BIA Digital Partners | Chantilly, United States, Virginia |
Blue Ventures | England, London, United Kingdom |
BuenTrip Ventures | Ecuador, Pichincha, Quito |
E.ON Venture Partners | Düsseldorf, Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Exor | Croatia, Grad Zagreb, Zagreb |
Fortino Capital | Belgium, Vlaams-Brabant, Zaventem |
Gladium | Gothenburg, Sweden, Vastra Gotaland |
gumi | Japan, Tokyo |
iBuy | Australia, Melbourne, Victoria |
Investissements W2 | - |
Mingye Investment | Beijing, Beijing, China |
Nihonshokken | Ehime Prefecture, Imabari, Japan |
Polaris Founders Capital | - |
Rongta Touzi | Beijing, Beijing, China |
Rosseau Asset Management | Canada, Ontario, Toronto |
Zhongshan Qingqi Chuangtou | Anhui, China, Zhongshan |
Notable deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
HowNow | $5M | 06 Feb 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
Smashcut | $7M | 31 May 2021 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Secondmind | $28M | 20 May 2019 | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom | ||
Credly | $11M | 24 Apr 2019 | New York, United States | ||
Sudiksha | $210K | 02 Jul 2014 | - | ||
SPARK Schools | $2M | 20 May 2014 | South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa | ||
Voxy | $10M | 01 Jul 2013 | New York, United States | ||
$2M | 07 Mar 2013 | Palo Alto, California, United States | |||
Inkling Systems | $17M | 03 Aug 2011 | San Francisco, California, United States |
– Holberton, which makes software engineering education affordable and accessible globally, has raised $20m in Series B funding.
– Redpoint eventures led the funding round with new investor Pearson Ventures and participation by existing investors Daphni, Imaginable Futures, Reach Capital and Trinity Ventures.
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Latest deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
HowNow | $5M | 06 Feb 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
Smashcut | $7M | 31 May 2021 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Secondmind | $28M | 20 May 2019 | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom | ||
Credly | $11M | 24 Apr 2019 | New York, United States | ||
Sudiksha | $210K | 02 Jul 2014 | - | ||
SPARK Schools | $2M | 20 May 2014 | South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa | ||
Voxy | $10M | 01 Jul 2013 | New York, United States | ||
$2M | 07 Mar 2013 | Palo Alto, California, United States | |||
Inkling Systems | $17M | 03 Aug 2011 | San Francisco, California, United States |