Rethink Education

Total investments

130

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

84

Rounds per year

10.83

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

14

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyE-LearningHealth CareSaaSCorporate TrainingEdTechTrainingEducation

Summary

Rethink Education is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the White Plains.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Rethink Education is 100-500 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. This Rethink Education works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Rethink Education, startups are often financed by NewSchools Venture Fund, Learn Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Learn Capital, Reach Capital, Kapor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NewSchools Venture Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Owl Ventures.

The fund was created by Matt Greenfield, Richard Segal. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline EVERFI, Degreed, Sixup Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
130
Lead investments
18
Exits
14
Rounds per year
10.83
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Education (87)
  • EdTech (51)
  • Software (30)
  • E-Learning (22)
  • Internet (16)
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Investments by region
  • United States (118)
  • Peru (3)
  • India (1)
  • France (2)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
81M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
1.16
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

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