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Starbucks

Founders Gordon Bowker Jerry Baldwin Zev Siegl

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.17
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Association
  • Food and Beverage
  • Health Care
Summary

Starbucks is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1971. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Seattle.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Starbucks, startups are often financed by Vanguard Ventures, Tredegar Investments, Times Mirror Company. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VMware, Tuesday Capital, Shawn Byers. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goldman Sachs, Sozo Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Square, Cooking.com, Formation 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 Health Care, Internet. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. When the investment is from Starbucks the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. This Starbucks works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LeadersUp

05 Jun 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Phantm

Organic
Recycling
Waste Management
$1M09 Nov 2023 Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia

Fotition

Mobile Apps
Photo Sharing
Social
$1M31 Jul 2016 California, United States

Formation

Business Intelligence
Communications Infrastructure
Personalization
$30M25 Jul 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 0.17
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.44

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LeadersUp

05 Jun 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Phantm

Organic
Recycling
Waste Management
$1M09 Nov 2023 Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia

Fotition

Mobile Apps
Photo Sharing
Social
$1M31 Jul 2016 California, United States

Formation

Business Intelligence
Communications Infrastructure
Personalization
$30M25 Jul 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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