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Sesame Workshop

Founders Joan Ganz Cooney Lloyd Morrisett

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.08
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • E-Learning
  • EdTech
  • Education
  • Reading Apps
  • Apps
Summary

Sesame Workshop is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1969. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Gaming. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Outschool, Osmo.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 participants. Despite the Sesame Workshop, startups are often financed by Upfront Ventures, K9 Ventures, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Collaborative Fund, Y Combinator, Upfront Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Union Square Ventures, Reach Capital, Jennifer Carolan.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HOMER

Android
Apps
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
iOS
Mobile
Reading Apps
$50M30 Sep 2020 New York, United States

Outschool

Children
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Marketplace
$1M26 Jun 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Osmo

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$18M08 Dec 2016 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 4
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 0.08
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HOMER

Android
Apps
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
iOS
Mobile
Reading Apps
$50M30 Sep 2020 New York, United States

Outschool

Children
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Marketplace
$1M26 Jun 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Osmo

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$18M08 Dec 2016 Palo Alto, California, United States
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