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Pivotal Ventures

Founders Melinda Gates

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 2.38
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Women's
  • Non Profit
  • FinTech
  • Finance
Summary

In 2015 was created Pivotal Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seattle.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Pivotal Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Sound Ventures, Initialized Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Sound Ventures, Initialized Capital.

The fund was created by Melinda Gates.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Elderly, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Papa

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tia Health

Employment
Enterprise Software
Health Care
Home Health Care
Human Resources
Medical
Personal Health
Software
Wellness
03 Apr 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ellevest

Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Women's
$53M06 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States

Founders First Capital Partners

Finance
Financial Services
Venture Capital
$11M09 Nov 2021 San Diego, California, United States

MiSalud

Health Care
Wellness
$5M18 Aug 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Neolth

EdTech
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
$700K02 Feb 2021 Walnut Creek, California, United States

Papa

Elder Care
Elderly
Nursing and Residential Care
$18M22 Sep 2020 Miami, Florida, United States

Papa

Elder Care
Elderly
Nursing and Residential Care
$10M09 Oct 2019 Miami, Florida, United States

Ellevest

Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Women's
$34M11 Mar 2019 New York, New York, United States
News
Nonprofit Helping Hands Community Secures Investment from Pivotal Ventures to Scale Last-Mile Delivery Platform to Reach the Food Insecure

– Helping Hands Community announced a $250k strategic investment from Pivotal Ventures.
– The investment will allow Helping Hands to augment its current organization of 150 part-time volunteers with some critical full-time paid roles, to expand the capabilities of its tech platform and extend it to more partners across the country.
– The investment was made by Melinda Gates, the co-founder of Pivotal Ventures.

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Total investments 19
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 2.38
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.32
Group Appearance index 0.58

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tia Health

Employment
Enterprise Software
Health Care
Home Health Care
Human Resources
Medical
Personal Health
Software
Wellness
03 Apr 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ellevest

Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Women's
$53M06 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States

Founders First Capital Partners

Finance
Financial Services
Venture Capital
$11M09 Nov 2021 San Diego, California, United States

MiSalud

Health Care
Wellness
$5M18 Aug 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Neolth

EdTech
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
$700K02 Feb 2021 Walnut Creek, California, United States

Papa

Elder Care
Elderly
Nursing and Residential Care
$18M22 Sep 2020 Miami, Florida, United States

Papa

Elder Care
Elderly
Nursing and Residential Care
$10M09 Oct 2019 Miami, Florida, United States

Ellevest

Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Women's
$34M11 Mar 2019 New York, New York, United States
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