Staples

Total investments

2

Portfolio companies

2

Rounds per year

0.06

Lead investments

2

Areas of investment
Venture CapitalE-CommerceB2BMarketplaceNatural Resources

Summary

Staples appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1986. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Framingham. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PaperExchange.com, Bizbuyer.com. 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are B2B, Marketplace.

This organization was formed by Tom Stemberg.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2000.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Staples, startups are often financed by eCompanies, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), TMCT Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bowater. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Actua Corporation.

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Analytics

Total investments
2
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.06
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Marketplace (2)
  • Venture Capital (1)
  • B2B (1)
  • Natural Resources (1)
Investments by region
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Group Appearance index
0.50

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