Square

Summary

Square appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2009. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Square, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Helion Venture Partners, GSF. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Helion Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Wipro Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Helion Venture Partners, Penske Automotive Group, Mitsui & Co.

The current fund was established by Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Apps, Mobile. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ridecell, Livspace, Trimian. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Square performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.