Stanford University - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

Summary

Stanford University appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1885. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Stanford.

This Stanford University works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Stanford University the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Stanford University, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, DFJ, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Peninsula Ventures, DFJ, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, Sierra Ventures, DFJ.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference 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 most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Medical Device. 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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Accruent, SmartDrive Systems, Aryaka Networks.